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Office Tab 14.00 – Release notes

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Good news! Office Tab 14.00 with excellent improvements and useful new features are available now. You can click here to upgrade or have a free trial of this version.


New Features:

1. Sync Ribbon Selected Tab:
This feature can help to synchronize the selected tab of the ribbon when switching the document tabs. It means, when specifying a tab in the ribbon, the tabs that all opened documents will toggle to that tab.

Notes:
1. To disable this feature, just click the feature to turn it off.
2. This feature is only available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2013 and later versions.
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2. Sync Ribbon Size:
This feature helps to synchronize the size of the ribbon when switching the document tabs. It means, the ribbon size for all opened documents will be adjusted the same as the one you specified.

Notes:
1. To disable this feature, just click the feature to turn it off.
2. This feature is only available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2013 and later versions.
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Improvements:

1. Support for multi-screen HDPI, fix the problem of Office workspace confusion caused by different resolutions of multiple screens.
2. Modify the appearance matching color for Office 2016 and later versions.
3. Always show the New button in multi-line label mode.
4. When opening the documents from the favorites, all files will be opened in the order they are added.
5. The default max-width of the Auto Size layout has been adjusted to 85 characters.
6. The default tab style has been modified to Style-3 for Office 2013 and later versions.



Fixed:

1. An issue that the default background of the Office Tab will not be changed when switching the appearance in the latest Office 365.
2. Create new or open documents cannot be displayed on the tab bar when closing a newly opened protected view file by clicking the Close button directly in Word 2013 and later versions.
3. Double click to open an encrypted document directly, and the opened file will be stuck in the startup interface in certain situations in Excel 2013 and later versions.
4. Other minor bugs.

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