(This post comes courtesy of our friends at the Office Web Apps blog.) We are excited to announce that today Office Web Apps are available on Windows Live. The initial release is available to Windows Live customers in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and...

In the Word Automation Services: What It Does post, I provided a very high-level outline of the server-side API provided by the service, showing you the basic outline for working with the service: Create a ConversionJob Provide it the settings for the...

Continuing my series of posts about Word Automation Services, I wanted to talk specifically about the things we did around two of our focus areas of the first release: performance and scale. The goals for the service One of the overall goals for Word...

In Word 2007, I was the program manager responsible for driving both the changes in the styles user experience and the investment made in lists. There a number of decisions that were made by those of us involved in those efforts that folks are still talking...

In my first two posts in the series on Word Automation Services, I talked about what it is and what it does – in this post, I wanted to drill in on how the service works from an architectural standpoint, and what that means for solutions built on top...

Following up on my first post about Word Automation Services, I wanted to continue by talking about the functionality offered (and not offered) by the service, how it's exposed, and the types of solutions you will be able to build on top of it. What the...

A few weeks back we talked about co-authoring in pretty good depth ( Word: Co-authoring – Where we are Coming From & Word: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010 ). If you want something a bit more high-level that covers co-authoring...

We are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Word 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for you to download at www.microsoft.com/2010 . We've talked in a bit...

Over the last couple of months, we've posted about many of the exciting new features of Word 2010 – Co-authoring , the new Find experience , and the Word Web App . This week, at SharePoint Conference 2009, we announced one more (and one that I'm especially...

Today is a great day for the Office 2010 team!. As Nick Simons posts on the Office Web Apps blog : We are making available Excel, Word and PowerPoint Web Apps for a select group of Windows Live users as part of the Office Web Apps Technical Preview. While...

When we first started blogging about Word 2007, we talked a lot about 21 st Century Documents . Our vision was that Word 2007 would allow authors to easily create much richer documents ( Quick Styles , Themes , SmartArt , Picture Styles , Building Blocks...

A big part of Word 2010 is enabling what we call cutting-edge authoring . Cutting-edge authoring is all about making deep enhancements in the core document creation experience in Word, given the types of documents people are creating today (i.e., a lot...

A lot of great stuff from the shared Office teams involving Word over the past few weeks, and I hope you like the new look of the blog. Protected view in Word 2010 – overview of a new security feature in Word 2010/Office 2010 Viewing Word documents in...

Continuing on from my last post on the Navigation Pane , another example of some of the work done for Word 2010 is the new default Find experience. This is again a feature built in support of the " Polished User Experiences " vision pillar described in...

One of the Pillars of the Word 2010 vision outlined in Scott's post on Framing the Release was " Polished User Experiences ". This pillar represents a desire to dramatically improve a set of scenarios that define Word's core user experiences in terms...

With my introductory post and Scott's framing post , we hope that you have a good sense for many of the advancements coming in Word 2010. And while we will be posting some Word specific details later this week, in the meantime, I would like to introduce...

Hi, my name is Scott Stiles and I run the Program Management team for Word. The goal of this post is to provide some context regarding how we framed this release. As I've been largely behind the scenes in the context of this blog, I thought a quick introduction...

We've been patiently waiting to talk with you about what we've been working on for the last two years, and the wait is over. Today we'll introduce Word 2010 at a very high-level, and then dig deeper and deeper into specific topics and features in the...

Introduction A common question that comes up is about the difference between multilevel lists and list styles. Stuart discussed these two list types in his post The Many Levels of Lists . What I hope to do in this blog post is an in-depth look at the...

Hello! My name is Stephen Oliver and I'm a programming writer at Microsoft. From time-to-time, I'll post Office developer-oriented tips—specifically around Word. Today's post is simply to alert you to a great resource for sharpening your Office automation...

It's super easy to put generic text into a Word document for all of your filler text needs (especially useful during demos and presentations). Just start a new paragraph and: Type "=rand()" and press Enter for three paragraphs of text Type "=lorem()"and...

My name is Nathan Kwan. I am a PM intern on the Microsoft Word team. My internship started in early January and is sadly coming to an end at the end of April. I'm a 4 th year student at the University of Waterloo working towards my Software Engineering...

Quick FYI. Frequent Word Team Blog blogger Joannie Stangeland started up a vodcast series called A Writer's Guide to Microsoft Office . The vodcast is currently stepping through the scenario of creating a manuscript in Word 2007 (how to pull together...

Just wanted to say a quick and public thank you to the amazing individuals who added a huge amount of valuable feedback at our recent MVP Summit . Standing (L-R) Beth Melton , Suzanne Barnhill , Jay Freedman Sitting (L-R) Jim Gordon , Shauna Kelly , Joanne...

I'm a big fan of Excel's ability to freeze rows and columns. If I'm looking at a large set of data, I can keep some of the rows and columns fixed and scroll though the rest. After all, this is pretty much useless: …while this gives me the context I need...