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Joe Friend

Designing software
and loving it.
What if tomorrow never came?

Okay, I suck as a blogger. No way to deny it. My last post (from 11/27/05) ended with "More tomorrow..." and then silence. I've got a lot of good excuses (including the dog ate my blog server) but I'll save 'em for the next time I screw up. Let's just say that we're super busy getting the best version of Word ever ready for you.

So, am I really going to blog? Well, yes and no. I and others from the Word team will be blogging on the cool new stuff in Word 2007, but we will probably start in earnest closer to the beta 2 release date. If you want to get on the list for beta 2 then make sure and register now.

Thanks for your patience and the nice emails I've recieved with all your questions and feature suggestions. Keep 'em coming!

Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:19 AM by Jfriend
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Asad said:

Hi Joe,

I'm not sure if you, of anyone else here has tried this.  How would you programmatically embed something (like an text file) into a word document.  It'd have to be inside the "\doc\embeddings\" folder, but I'm not sure if this is something you can do through code.  

-Asad-
# February 16, 2006 4:14 PM

bored said:

"we will probably start in earnest closer to the beta 2 release date"

Point being? Anyone who wants to see new Word would get it on this date.
# February 17, 2006 4:20 AM

Carlos Bohórquez said:

Regarding last post....one of the coolest aspects of these postings is the INSIDE view of the development of the new features. Thanks for posting, and keep the good work!
# February 20, 2006 8:06 PM

John said:

Offtopic but I want to rant a bit about the Paste vs. Paste Special in Word (and many other programs). PLEASE make it possible to set Paste to ALWAYS inherrit the destination format. In all the copy/pasting that I do, in less than 1% of the situations have I ever wanted to keep the source formatting. This is really an annoying feature to have to constantly work around. I curse it almost ever time.
# February 22, 2006 10:16 PM

nojetlag said:

It would really be great if you could blog more, the Excel 12 blog is a fantastic example
# March 8, 2006 6:41 AM

Joe Friend: Microsoft Office Word said:

I returned to Microsoft  (after a 7 year hiatus) in late 2003 just as the Office 2007 effort was getting...
# May 11, 2006 11:14 AM
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