November 2006 - Posts
Today marks the business launch of the 2007 Office system (e.g. the software is available to businesses). A blog has been setup to capture all the goodness of the actual launch event (thoughts, sights, sounds) and can be found here . Give it a look. -
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In the first half of this two-part thought, I talked about the first major component of structured editing –enabling people to "tame the beast" of the freeform surface that is Word, in order to ensure that documents which contain structured content can
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In my first post on building blocks, I talked about the different types of building blocks available and the concept of building blocks being able to "know" where to get inserted. For example, headers and footers get inserted in the header or footer region
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This morning Office announced the launch of a program to license the Office User Interface design on a royalty-free basis. This basically allows licensees to create UI components and applications that have the same "Ribbon-esque" look and behavior as
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A cool new feature we have added in Word 2007 is the ability to reuse content easily in order to help you put together great looking documents. We call this feature building blocks . Building blocks are essentially parts of a document that can be reused.
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So in the last post , we went over what I mean by the concept of structured editing in Word. I deliberately skipped over the awesome work we did in this same space in Word 2003, and I'm going to keep saving that for the future. In this post, I want to
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One of my favorite bits of user feedback about the Word 2003 styles UI was that some users (not many but some) thought that the control at the far left of the toolbar just reported the "health" of the document. "Why, yes, Doctor, this document is perfectly
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Often, all you need to do to get your numbering to work the way you want is to type the number value followed by the punctuation you want for the numbering and press the Spacebar. Word goes ahead and starts a list for you using the value and format you've
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I'll be taking some time off and visiting lovely Las Vegas starting tomorrow to celebrate the release of the RTM Compatibility Pack . If you remember my first post , the Compatibility Pack is what I've been spending a lot of my time on, so I'm pretty
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Thank you to everyone who beta tested Word 2007 and helped enable the 2007 Office system to be released to manufactures . Nice! If you'd like to try out the release to market (RTM) version of Word 2007, starting Dec. 1 in the U.S. and Canada (and later
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Stuart J Stuple is a program manager on the Microsoft Office Word team who focuses on the formatting and editing experience of long or complex documents. His background is in book publishing and education. If ever there was a misunderstood feature, it
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The new and completely revamped Office Online just went live. It's well done and allows you to 'test drive' Word 2007 (among other 2007 Office system apps) from in your internet browser. Nice.
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Check out the retail packaging for the 2007 Office system & Windows Vista…Nice Jonathan
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For some great information on the 2007 Microsoft Office system, check out the Microsoft Office webcasts (below) & the brand new Developer Roadmap for the 2007 Microsoft Office System . Tips and Tricks for the 2007 Office System: Great Document Formatting
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