They also added a new option in the Layer Options to change the opacity of the layer.Īnd they fixed the color picker in the Layer Options! This was awful in the preview, but it looks much better now. They have added a new icon to the Layer Manager panel that allows you to add a new layer to the selected scene. The available selections remain the same: stacked column, clustered column, bubble, heat map, region. When you go to add a new layer, you will notice that the Chart Type drop-down was changed to an array of icons. If you click on Themes, you will notice there are now 12 themes available where before there were 8. Some of the icons in the ribbon have been updated, but the options are still the same. There don’t seem to be any significant differences between the preview and GA version, but they did fix a few bugs, add a couple of new features, and make a few UI updates. Then you can open Power Map once again and work with the new GA version. If you had the Power Map Preview installed, when you go to insert or open a Power Map, you will receive a dialog box that asks you to allow it to uninstall an older version. Once you have the Office SP1 update, you will need to enable to the GA add-in and disable the preview add-in, as it installs separately from (rather than over the top of) the Power Map Preview add-in.
#Power map preview for excel 2013 update#
I just finished applying the update to Office to get the GA version and I have a few observations.
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Those with standalone Excel or Office Professional Plus will not get the GA version of Power Map.
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As Chris Webb noted, it will only be available for those that have Office 365 ProPlus. Today, Microsoft announced that Power Map for Excel is now in GA.