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Math and equations in Office

eScience — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:11:59 GMT

One of the most hidden features in Word 2007 is the equation editor – it allows you to input equations using the linear format and the equations that are generated are truly visualizing appealing.

There are some videos showing the use of equation editor, but I just see that Murray Sargent is the “star” in a new video walking through some complex equations and showing some of the other formatting/alignment features that are included.

Silverlight version of Video

Word 2007 Math Overview

Murray Sargent: Math in Office Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies

eScience — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:46 GMT

At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, such as the ones at http://neurocommons.org. Some of this is based on previous collaboration with Phil Bourne from UCSD.

“Microsoft’s openness in working with the Science Commons has significant implications for the scientific research community because it will make it easy for authors to link their documents straight into the semantic Web of science — making that research, data and material easier to find and use,” said Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.

You can seem more about the add-ins at Pablo’s Blog - Ontology Add-in for Word 2007

Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 11, 2009 — The nuggets of information necessary for science to progress are often hard to find, submerged deep within the Web, or within databases that can’t be easily accessed or integrated. As a result, many scientists today work in relative isolation, follow blind alleys and unnecessarily duplicate existing research.

Addressing this critical challenge for researchers, Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons announced today, before an industry panel at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech 2009, http://en.oreilly.com/et2009 ), the release of the Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 that will enable authors to easily add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. Ontologies are shared vocabularies created and maintained by different academic domains to model their fields of study.

This Add-in will make it easier for scientists to link their documents to the Web in a meaningful way. Deployed on a wide scale, ontology-enabled scientific publishing will provide a Web boost to scientific discovery.

Science Commons, a division of Creative Commons, is incubating the adoption of semantic scientific publishing through creation of a robust database of ontologies (http://neurocommons.org) and development of supporting technical standards and code. Microsoft Research has built a technology bridge to enable the link between Microsoft Office Word 2007 and these ontologies.

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Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies: Breakthrough collaboration helps researchers make easier connections on the Web.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Word for scientific publishing

eScience — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:55:41 GMT

Here's an interview Jon Udell did w/ Pablo Fernicola about the Word Addin for Scientific publishing.

Word for scientific publishing

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft. He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration, search, and content discovery in the future.
In this interview, Pablo explains how a new add-in for Word, now available as a technical preview, helps authors and publishers of scientific articles work more effectively with one another, and with online archives like PubMed Central.

Word for scientific publishing | Jon Udell | Perspectives

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Word 2007 - Citations, Bibliography, and Equation Editor

eScience — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:53:47 GMT

Here's a video from on10.net of the Citations, Bibliography, and Equation Editor features I mentioned previously - Word 2007 - Academic features: citation & bibliography tools To jump right to the Citation part - jump to the 3 min mark.

Office 2007 - Microsoft Word

Posted by Tina Wood on Feb 27^th at 8:02 PM

Microsoft Word 2007 rules! It seems like we've used Word our whole lives but this is - by far - the greatest improvement in features and interface. High School and College kids around the globe will love the new Microsoft Word 2007. It's got a comprehensive set of new tools integrated with the incredible new ribbon interface.

Source: Office 2007 - Microsoft Word | Tina Wood | Channel 10

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)