Updated data picker
Updated data picker
The Word add-in data picker got UX improvements. It shows the company information data set next to report information.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 2 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
Quotes
- 0:44 "looking at the report objects we noticed that there is a lot of repetition in the data set" - Explains why the company information data set was introduced.
- 1:00 "you don't need to encode any of the data uh in company information that's available for you right away" - Report developers no longer have to add company information to the report data set for Word layouts.
Documented features match
- Reduce complexity of report datasets - low confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573321. Shows company information dataset
- Product documentation (partial, the article describes the broader feature or mentions this in passing): Use the Word add-in for report layouts, checked 2026-10-02. The Word add-in includes a task pane that lets you insert mapped fields from a report dataset, such as data, labels, and report information. Note: Describes the data picker task pane (2025 wave 2 and later). Company information data set shown next to report information is not described. The 2026 wave 1 and 2025 wave 2 release plans document earlier picker enhancements.
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.
Tags: word-add-in, reporting, data-picker, ux
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.