October 2006 - Posts
This is a follow up post to Jonathan's Opening & Saving Word, PowerPoint and Excel's new default file formats in previous versions of Office . So not only can you use the user interface to open and save the new default Office 2007 Open XML file formats
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Ah, structured editing. I hear that term a lot, but I know it often means different things to different people. So far, I've talked about what content controls are , and locking (which is a big part of structuring a document, as I use the term), but over
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Tristan again – in my first post , I tried to give a really brief overview of the new content control functionality in Word 2007. In that post I had a list of the different aspects of what we did that excite me, and in the next few posts, I'm going to
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Word 2007 (along with Excel and PowerPoint 2007) has new XML based default file format (.docx). I've referred to Brian Jones' blog for more info on these new formats before, and highly recommend checking out his recent post summarizing why we've adopted
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Spellchecking is not perfect, but I would not have gotten through school without it. :) Despite my love for spelling and grammar checking, I'm aware of its limitations. Specifically, previous versions of Word will tell you when what you type is misspelled
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Another post, another Word Program Manager… My name is Tristan Davis and over the last 3 years as a Program Manager (or PM if you want to use Microsoft-speak) on the Word team, I've focused on three things: Losing 60 pounds, joining the Ecma TC45 Technical
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In this post, I'm going to talk about equation numbering, one of our most highly-requested features. Setting up your equation numbering for easy one-click entry takes a few steps, so bear with me. You have to go through this process only once, and after
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In my previous posts I talked about Compatibility in Word 2007 , what it means to be in Compatibility Mode and how you get out of Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about Compatibility in Word 2007 as a collaboration scenario.
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This post was co-authored by Margaret Plumley. Margaret's been a member of the Word program management team for about 2-1/2 years and worked for Windows before then. If you've ever collaborated on a Word document you know all about 'Track Changes'. In
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In my last post about Compatibility in Word 2007 I talked about Compatibility Mode and how you get into Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about getting out of Compatibility Mode. Going back to the first post on Compatibility
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My name is Jennifer Michelstein, and I'm a Program Manager on the Word team. I mainly work on academic features, like bibliographies and citations (see Joe Friend's blog ) and equations. In Word 2007, we took a ground-up approach to creating a new set
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In today's post I am going to talk about opening or creating older file formats (.doc, .dot, .xml [Word 2003 XML Format]) in Word 2007. Opening or creating any of these older file formats in Word will result in Word being in Compatibility Mode . Going
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