September 2006 - Posts
23 years ago today, Microsoft introduced Word for MS-DOS 1.00. Acclaimed for its "undo" command, here it is, the first version of Microsoft Word along with the 5¼-inch disks it came on and the Microsoft green-eyed mouse, billed as "an electronic pointing
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My name is Zeyad Rajabi and I'm a program manager on the Word team. I work on file format related issues, including HTML support in Word. Compatibility in Word 2007 – Part I There has been a lot of discussion around the new default file formats we are
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 have new XML based default file formats (Word -- .docx, Excel -- .xlsx, and PowerPoint -- .pptx). New formats?! You may be wondering : "How will these new formats affect previous releases of Office?" Or, put a bit more
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In an effort to live up to this blog's 'All things Microsoft Office Word...' subtitle, here are some excellent past Word related posts from Joe Friend's blog . The new document look : One of the things that we hope you notice as soon as you start working
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If you don't want to read this whole post, here's a quick demo of a document Theme being applied to copy & pasted content automatically . In my 21 st Century Document post & video , I touched on the "Theme" feature new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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FYI: Yesterday's 21 st Century Document video was created using the Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) of the Office 2007 system. For more info on B2TR of the Office 2007 system, check out: Review: Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh PC Magazine
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If you don't want to read this whole post, but would like to see a demo of how Word 2007 makes it easy to create 21 st Century/professional looking documents, you can check out this post's video . But, the post's got some good stuff in it too :) One of
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Welcome to the Microsoft Office Word Team's blog; your source for all things Word related. I'm Jonathan Bailor, a program manager on the Word team. I joined the Word program management team about a year ago and before that interned as a program manager
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