Word: Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting Beta
Data as of 2 hours ago (9 September 2026)
Status In development
Release month September 2025
Overdue
Release ring General Availability
Products Word
Cloud instances Worldwide
Platforms Desktop
Description
Draft on a selection and retain your existing formatting so that your content is seamless and fits with your document.
Change history
Added to the roadmap 18 December 2024. Tracked here since 1 September 2026. Earliest target we recorded: September 2025 (since tracked — Microsoft may have moved it before we started watching).
Nothing has changed on this item since tracking began on 1 September 2026. Changes appear here as Microsoft updates the feed.