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Issue #162 / 20-JUL-26

What's New in PowerPoint Craft

The PowerPoint team is modernizing the creation experience to help you build polished presentations with less friction. Over the past several months, they have focused on updates you can use directly—new SmartArt layouts, fresh themes, and a simpler Design ribbon—alongside improvements that make opening files feel clearer and more reliable.

Create reusable plans faster with custom templates in Planner

Turn any basic plan in Microsoft Planner into a reusable, shareable template to speed up planning and ensure consistency across plans. Custom templates capture key plan elements such as tasks, goals, buckets, labels, notes, attachments, and checklists to help teams plan faster and stay consistent.

More control and better accessibility with permalinks in SharePoint Online

To give customers greater control, SharePoint Online is introducing a new tenant-level setting called “Use permalinks.” This new toggle allows organizations to choose whether heading permalinks should appear on SharePoint pages. Administrators or site owners can turn the feature on or off based on their organization’s accessibility preferences and user needs.