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Jun 30, 2023

Automatically crop pictures in Microsoft 365 apps for Mac and iOS

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Ann Mary George

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Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! My name is Ann Mary George and I’m a Software Engineer on the Graphics team. I’m excited to share we’ve added an automatic picture cropping experience for the Microsoft 365 apps for Mac and iOS.

Automatically crop pictures in apps for Mac and iOS

If you’ve ever taken a digital picture, you’ve probably used the Crop command. It’s one of the most used features when working with pictures. Now, with a single click, the Auto Crop command helps you identify the most important parts of your picture and crops out the rest.

How to use it

In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac

  1. Create or open an existing document, worksheet, or presentation.
  2. To insert a picture, click the Insert tab and select a picture by using one of the available options. 

Insert tab with Picture from File command selected

  1. Select a picture, and then click Picture Format > Auto Crop.

Slide with photo, and Auto Crop feature selected

Notice that your picture is now cropped to focus on its most important parts.

Cropped picture

 

In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS (iPhone and iPad)

  1. Create or open an existing document, worksheet, or presentation, and insert a picture.

Slide with a photo

       2. Tap Picture > Crop > Auto Crop.

Auto cropped photo

Notice that your picture is now cropped to focus on its most important parts.

Results of auto cropping a photo

Known issues

  • This feature is not yet supported for SVGs or PDFs.
  • You can only apply auto crop to one image at a time.

Availability

This feature is available to Microsoft 365 Insiders running:

  • iOS: Version 2.76 (Build 23062804) or later
  • Mac: Version 16.76 (Build 23062703) or later

Don’t have it yet? It’s probably us, not you.

Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Although this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it.

Feedback

We hope you love this feature. To submit feedback, please select Help > Feedback and let us know what you think!