Look at our release notes to learn more about the development of Acrolinx for Office on Windows.
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Acrolinx for Microsoft Office on Windows Versions |
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Support for Acrolinx AI Assistant and Suggestions |
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16.x (2021) Word, PowerPoint, Oulook, and Excel |
1.6.6 |
1.6.5 |
1.6.4 and earlier |
1.6.6 and later |
You'll also need:
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16.x (2019) Word, PowerPoint, Oulook, and Excel |
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1.6.6 |
1.6.5 and earlier |
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Released 1 July 2024
This release fixes a couple of checking bugs.
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Checking issue in PowerPoint - When you tried to check a PowerPoint file that contained an SVG file, you'd run into checking errors. This is now fixed.
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Replacements removed footnotes - Sidebar replacements would remove special elements from your content. These included things like footnotes, endnotes, and diagrams. We've added a new error to the Sidebar to make replacement behavior clearer.
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In some cases, these Sidebar cards are "read only."
Released 7 June 2024
This release, we've made some bug fixes.
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Replace all Occurrences - We've fixed an issue that caused the “Replace all Occurrences” option not to work.
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PowerPoint with third-party diagrams - In some cases, when a PowerPoint Presentation had diagrams generated by a third-party solution, an Acrolinx check would lead to an error. We've fixed this.
Released 20 March 2024
This release, we've added a couple new error messages to improve Sidebar usability.
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Better feedback on failed checks - Sometimes Acrolinx checks fail because of structural issues in your content. Instead of just canceling these checks, we've added a new error message to let you know when the structure of your content is invalid.
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General error message - If Acrolinx can't complete a check, you'll now get in a general error message that tells you so.
Released 28 February 2024
This service release fixes a couple of bugs.
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"Replace all occurrences" not working properly - The "replace all occurrences" functionally wasn’t working in lists or tables. This primarily happened when a file included drawing elements. This is fixed.
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Error on startup - Acrolinx for Office showed error on application startup if “show add-in user interface errors” was enabled. We've fixed this.
Released 31 October 2022
This version of Acrolinx for Office on Windows comes with a couple of improvements that make it easier to check with the Sidebar. We've also fixed a bug that wasn't letting you accept suggested replacements.
In previous versions of Acrolinx for Office on Windows, the Sidebar used Internet Explorer 11 components. This caused some hiccups when you tried to use the Sidebar without Internet Explorer 11. The good news is that we got rid of all Internet Explorer components. We now use Microsoft Edge Chromium to show our Sidebar, so you're back on track.
"Out of Memory" NotificationIf your Word application ever ran out of memory (think biiiig document checking), you had to dig through the log messages to find out what went wrong. To make this easier for you, we’ve introduced an "Out of Memory" message. You'll now get a notification in the Sidebar if Word runs out of memory.
Sometimes when you clicked on a suggested replacement, the suggestion didn't get applied to your content and the Sidebar card would disappear. We’ve fixed this. No more issues when you want to use the replacements Acrolinx suggests.
Warning
This is important if you're on Windows and use Acrolinx for Office on Windows. It doesn't apply to Windows 11.
If you aren't on Windows 11 and use Acrolinx for Office on Windows, you need to download and install WebView 2 from Microsoft. This is because we've updated the Sidebar to use Microsoft Edge Chromium instead of Internet Explorer.
You can download WebView 2 from the page WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer. Linux and macOS users don't need WebView 2.
Better safe than sorry! We support your secure workflows — in other words, this service release makes sure that the Sidebar loads in highly secure environments.
We've developed and tested this version of Acrolinx on the following:
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Microsoft Office versions 2013, 2016, 2019, and Office 365 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Acrolinx for Microsoft Office on Windows 1.5 requires the following Acrolinx products:
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Acrolinx Platform version 2021.02
You'll also need the following:
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Internet Explorer 11
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Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 or later
You can configure Windows to maintain memory integrity by allowing registered load assemblies. When you configure this, Windows compares the CLSID (class identifier) from the registry to the GUID attribute mentioned in the assembly before it loads the assembly into memory. But one of our assemblies was missing a GUID, so it didn't load. We've added the missing GUID so the check can establish memory integrity in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
It's been awhile since our last Acrolinx for Microsoft Office on Windows release. So, we've got some exciting improvements in store. We've added a new feature that helps guarantee the security of your data. We've also fixed couple of bugs that affected your Sidebar cards.
We've developed and tested this version of Acrolinx on the following:
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Microsoft Office versions 2013, 2016, 2019, and Office 365 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Acrolinx for Microsoft Office on Windows 1.5 requires the following Acrolinx products:
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Acrolinx Platform version 2021.02
You'll also need the following:
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Internet Explorer 11
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Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 or later
The Windows 11 release is just around the corner, and we've got you covered. After the release, you can use Acrolinx for Office on Windows with Windows 11 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Dropped SupportWe’ll sunset support for Windows 7 in late 2021 after the release of Windows 11.
Safety first! If you protect your content with Microsoft sensitivity labels, we've got good news. We've added the properties ACROLINX_MIP_PREVENTLABELS and ACROLINX_MIP_PREVENTEMPTYLABELS so you can exclude sensitive content from your Acrolinx checks. These properties are easy to specify during installation and work for the following apps:
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Excel
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PowerPoint
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Word
Want to set this up? Visit the Acrolinx for Office Admin Guide to get started.