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All things Microsoft Office Word, from the Word team.

March 2007 - Posts

Migrating Mail Merge Fields to Content Controls
Edit: Fixed up the unnecessary line breaks that appeared post-publish. There are many of you out there who have used mail merge to get data into Word documents in the past (and it continues to be a great way to create mailings), but one of the questions Read More...
Independent Word Experts
Last week we had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with eleven of the most knowledgeable Word users in the world. Specifically, eleven of the thirty-five Word MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) came from all over the world to chat with the Word Read More...
The Document Inspector
Intro I just wanted to introduce myself quickly as I am a new poster. My name is Reed Shaffner and I am the newly appointed world-wide product manager for Microsoft Word. In addition to working on Word, I also do a lot of work around accessibility and Read More...
The Many Levels of Lists
Word "thinks" in terms of lists of nine levels. Even when you only have a simple, one-level list, Word has eight other levels stored off-stage. It's these additional levels that come into play when you indent a numbered entry and the number format changes Read More...
Links for the Weekend
Two interesting links to check-out: The Office Migration Planning Manager : The Office Migration Planning Manager is a collection of tools which ease migration to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Specifically for Word 2007, the OMPM includes the Version Read More...
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