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More than 10 million people rely on Groups in Outlook every month to work together and get things done. Groups is proving useful to our customers. And for that, we couldn’t be more thankful. Groups in Outlook offers huge improvements over traditional distribution lists, with a shared space for group conversations, calendars, files and notebooks, the convenience of self-service membership and much more.
Today, we’re pleased to announce Groups is now rolling out to Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android. Groups is already available in Outlook for Windows and on the web—so now you can access your group conversations and content no matter which platform you use.
With these updates, you can:
- View your group list.
- Read and reply to group conversations.
- Add group events to your personal calendar.
- View unread messages sent to the group.
- View group details within the group card (Outlook for iOS and Android only).
There is more to come as we continue to work on making Groups better in response to your input, so stay tuned.
Recently released updates for Groups in Outlook
In addition to bringing groups to more Outlook apps, we’ve released several new features for Groups in Outlook on other platforms, too.
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Give guest access—Last fall, we updated Outlook on the web to give you the ability to set up guest access for people outside your organization, set group classification as defined by Office 365 admins, and view usage guidelines. Now, these same capabilities are available in Outlook for Windows.
Invite people to join—One of our most requested improvements was an easier way to invite multiple people to join a group. We’ve released the Invite to join feature to Outlook on the web, which lets you create invitation links and share them with others via email or other channels, giving them a quick way to join the group.
Multi-delete conversations—Group owners can now multi-select conversations and delete them from the group conversations space in Outlook for Windows.
Send email as a group—Office 365 admins can grant send-as and send-on-behalf-of permissions to members of a group using the Exchange admin center. Group members who have these permissions can then send emails as the group, or on behalf of the group, from Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web.
What’s next
We’re always listening to your feedback as we deliver new Groups capabilities to Outlook. Here are a few of your key requests we are going to tackle next:
- Add appointments to a group calendar in Outlook for Windows—When adding an event to a group calendar, you will have the option to do so without sending an invite to everyone in the group.
- Addition of Mail Contacts as guests—You will be able to easily add Mail Contacts in your company’s directory as a guest in a group.
Thanks for the feedback, and please keep it coming via our UserVoice site.
—The Outlook team
Frequently asked questions
Q. Now that Groups support is being added to Outlook for iOS and Android, what happens to the standalone Outlook Groups app?
A. Customers gave us feedback that they wanted Groups available directly in Outlook for iOS and Android. The Outlook Groups app will still be available while we continue to enhance Groups experiences in Outlook, such as adding support for group files, calendar and notebooks.
Q. Why am I not seeing Groups yet?
A. Groups is rolling out to Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android and will be available for eligible users in the coming weeks. Even if you are using the latest build of Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android, Groups will only be available to those who have joined or been added to a group. Once we add the ability to create and join groups on Mac, iOS and Android, every Office 365 user will see Groups in Outlook.
Q. Is Groups available to Outlook.com users?
A. Groups is for commercial users of Office 365 and is not available for Outlook.com.
Q. Why am I not seeing all my groups in Outlook for Mac?
A. Outlook for Mac currently shows the top 10 most active groups in Outlook for Mac. We’re working on making all groups visible in a future update.
Q. What about Outlook for Windows 10 Mobile?
A. We’re working on the best way to integrate Groups in Outlook for Windows 10 Mobile. In the meantime, the Outlook Groups app for Windows 10 Mobile helps customers stay on top of all group activities, including conversations, files, calendar and notebook.
Q. Where can I find more about managing Groups in Outlook for my organization?
A. If you are responsible for managing and supporting Outlook for your company, take a look at our IT pro documentation and check out our recently released improvements for administering Groups.
Q. What is coming next for Groups?
A. Stay tuned to the Office 365 Roadmap to see what is on the way.
Home | Products | PowerPoint | PowerPoint Tutorials | PowerPointSmartArt
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2011
OS: Mac OS X
OS: Mac OS X
Date Created: October 27th 2011
Last Updated: October 27th 2011
Last Updated: October 27th 2011
Excerpt/Capsule: Learn how to animate SmartArt in PowerPoint2011 for Mac.
Animation in PowerPoint can work in many ways depending upon whatyou are animating because PowerPoint has extra options up its sleeve foranimating different types of slide objects such as text, charts, or evenSmartArt. Once you add animation to your SmartArt, you'll discover thatthe entire graphic animates at the same time -- it may seem that you haveno control over animating individual SmartArt shapes, but that's not entirelytrue. PowerPoint 2011 does provide some control over animating SmartArtshapes in sequence -- in this tutorial, you'll learn where to find thoseoptions, and how to use them:
- Select your existing SmartArt graphic -- our sample slide shown in Figure 1 has the Basic Matrix SmartArt layout. Then, click the Animations tab (highlighted in red in Figure 1) of the Ribbon.
Figure 1: Basic Matrix SmartArt graphicTip: Want to know more about SmartArt -- maybe how to insert SmartArt graphics on your slide -- look at our Insert SmartArt in PowerPoint 2011 tutorial. - This will reveal the options within the Animations tab, as shown in Figure 2. Locate the Entrance Effects group and hover your cursor over the Entrance Effects preview thumbnails to see a down-arrow (highlighted in red in Figure2). Click this arrow to open the Entrance Effects gallery in drop-down mode -- again as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Entrance Effects drop-down gallery - In the Entrance Effects drop-down gallery, just click on any of the entrance effect animations to apply it to your SmartArt. For this example, we used the Wipe animation (refer to Figure 2 above). Note that this adds the the digit 1 (highlighted in red in Figure 3) to the SmartArt indicating that an animation has been applied. And since you see only '1' without any '2', '3', etc. -- you can assume that there is no sequenced animation, and the entire SmartArt graphic is going to be animated all at once.
Figure 3: Wipe entrance animation applied to SmartArt graphic - Once you have applied an animation, you may want more control over the sequencing of the animation for different shapes contained within your SmartArt. Options to control the sequencing can be found within the Animation Options group (see Figure 4) within the Animations tab of the Ribbon.
Figure 4: Options to edit sequencing of the animation
As soon as an animation is applied, the Effect Options button located within Animation Options group is no longer grayed. Click this button to summon the Effect Options drop-down list, as shown in Figure 4.
Within the Effect Options drop-down gallery, you can choose from the four directions available for the Wipe animation. Note that unlike the Wipe animation, other animations may not have a Direction option. What's significant though is that the Sequence options, which are explained below will be similar for all types of animated SmartArt graphics:- As One Object: Animates the entire SmartArt at one go.
- All at Once: Animates all SmartArt shapes at one go.
- One by One: Animates SmartArt shapes one by one.
- Once you are done with applying and editing animation, you can preview the animation by clicking the Play button within the Preview group of Animations tab, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Play button used to preview the animation - Save your presentation.
Tip: You can control the animation further using the options within the Custom Animation tab of the Toolbox. To access this toolbox, click the Show or Hide the Toolbox icon (refer to Figure 6 ) in the Standard Toolbar. More information on using the options within this tab can be found in our Custom Animation Tab of Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 tutorial.
Figure 6: Toolbox icon
See Also:
Animating SmartArt in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Animating SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
Animating SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
Office 2011 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
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