Likely the main reason is that the functionality/usefulness it provides (ability to fill out required fields quickly and before committing a save) is still there but in what I’d argue is a better place.The DIP when in partnership with SharePoint could be customized using InfoPath – and well, InfoPath has a murky future (at best).As cool as it was to be able to punch metadata right into the ribbon in Office, it wasn’t consistent in other places that Microsoft places a ribbon (SharePoint, for example) and other Office products didn’t support it either.I personally haven’t heard an answer but I suspect it is a few things: But they did it one month before Office 2016 was released and without a lot of fanfare. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the alternative (and sometimes the alternative is … well, nothing). The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing/unavailable/gonzo/absent/gone/AWOL in Office 2016. A little surprising too… So let’s do this… What Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it.
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