What is New in Microsoft Planner for March 2025

We're excited to introduce a range of updates designed to enhance your planning and task management experience. In this release, you'll find improvements such as the ability to reorder columns in basic plans, a comprehensive view of all due date categories in Board view, persistent filters in premium plans, and a fix for the default view in basic plans. These changes aim to provide you with greater flexibility, better organization, and a more seamless user experience. Let's dive into the details of these exciting new features!

Reorder Columns in Basic Plans​

You can now reorder columns in basic plans! This capability allows you to prioritize and organize your tasks in a way that best suits your workflow.

Previously, reordering columns was only available in premium plans. With this update, reordering columns is available across all Grid views. To try it out, simply select and drag the column headers to rearrange them, or use the CTRL+Shift+< and CTRL+Shift+> keyboard shortcuts.

Show All Due Date Categories​

When you group by Due Date, the Board view will now show all due date categories, such as Today, Tomorrow, This week, Next week, and Future, regardless of whether there are tasks assigned. Previously, only categories with assigned tasks were displayed. This change provides a comprehensive overview of all potential due dates and helps you and your team in planning ahead by visualizing all time frames.

Save Filters Across Sessions in Premium Plans​

When using a premium plan, you can now persist filters across sessions. This means that any filters applied will remain active even after logging out and back into the application. This feature ensures consistency and saves time by maintaining your preferred view settings without needing reconfiguration each time you log in.

Bug Fix: Opening Basic Plan Defaults to Board View​

We have fixed an issue to ensure that when you open a basic plan, it continues to default to Board view. Thank you for your feedback in helping us identify and catch this issue!

Share your feedback​

Tell us your thoughts on the new Planner by using the Feedback button in the top right corner of the app. We also encourage you to share any features you would like to see in the app by adding it to our Planner Feedback Portal. Your feedback helps inform our feature updates, and we look forward to hearing from you as you try Planner’s new and existing capabilities!

Resources​

• Check out the Planner adoption page.
• Sign up to receive future communication about Planner.
• Check out the Microsoft 365 roadmap for feature descriptions and estimated release dates for Planner.
• Watch Planner demos for inspiration on how to get the most out of the new Planner app in Microsoft Teams.
• Visit the Planner help page to learn more about the capabilities in the new Planner.