Kutools for Excel 26.00 - Release notes

Good news! Kutools for Excel 26.00 is coming with dozens of handy chart templates, useful new features, and excellent improvements! You can upgrade to or try a free trial of this version by downloading Kutools for Excel 26.00.

Tip: Enjoy full functionality with a 30‑day free trial! If the 2‑year free upgrade support period has not expired, you are entitled to upgrade to this version.

New Features

1. New Handy Chart Templates
1.1) Battery Chart
This feature allows you to create a battery chart in Excel with just a few clicks. It provides a clear visual indication of the percentage of a task completed versus the remaining percentage.

1.2) Alternative Progress Bar Chart
Compared with the Progress Bar Chart in previous versions, this alternative design offers an improved appearance for displaying the progress of multiple projects.

1.3) Alternative Stacked Column Chart
This chart shows different series as parts of a single column, making it easier to compare values at a glance.

1.4) Dynamic Pie of Pie Chart
While Excel’s built‑in Pie of Pie chart only supports one series at a time, this dynamic version lets you create a chart with two pies. One pie shows the proportions of the total for each row or column in the selected range, and the other displays the data distribution within a row or column. You can also change the displayed data dynamically via a drop‑down list.

1.5) Scrollable Line Chart
When displaying a large dataset with a line chart in Excel, the data points can be too crowded to analyze effectively. This feature lets you decide how many rows of data to display at once and scroll through the data using a control.

1.6) Dynamic Column Chart
Normally, Excel’s built‑in column chart displays all series simultaneously. The Dynamic Column Chart feature allows you to show only one series at a time by using a drop‑down list, so you can easily switch between series as needed.

1.7) Dynamic Ranking Bar Chart
This feature creates a scrollable dynamic bar chart that displays the top N values of a series in descending order. You can specify how many rows of data to display at a time, and use the scroll bar to navigate while the chart automatically reorders the data.

2. Compare Worksheets
This feature compares two specified worksheets from different workbooks side by side, highlighting differences in corresponding cell positions with the background, bottom border, or font colors that you choose.

3. Configure Synchronization
Kutools for Excel now supports synchronizing its configuration settings between devices through a OneDrive account. You can choose which configurations to synchronize based on your needs, such as form configurations, auto text entries, super filter scenarios, custom language files, and email templates.

Improvements

1. Performance Improvements
1.1) Rename Worksheets
1.2) Filename List
1.3) Combine Rows, Columns, or Cells without Losing Data
1.4) Transpose Table Dimensions
1.5) Select Cells with Format
1.6) Select Specific Cells
1.7) Transform Range
1.8) Select Duplicate & Unique Cells
1.9) Searchable Drop‑down List – This feature now adds a Mode group, allowing you to add searched items in either append or modify mode.

1.10) Split Data – Users can now specify the first few rows as title rows when splitting worksheets.

2. Optimized layout of the ribbon interface to adapt to Windows 11 and the new Office interface.
3. Optimized ribbon icons for HDPI displays.
4. Other improvements.

Fixed

1) Fixed an issue where the Microsoft Sign‑in dialog box distorted on HDPI displays.
2) Fixed a problem where enabling the Reading Layout feature could cause CSV files to hang on opening.
3) Fixed a rare error that occurred when starting Excel and loading files.
4) Fixed other minor bugs.