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When we first started blogging about Word 2007, we talked a lot about 21 st Century Documents . Our vision was that Word 2007 would allow authors to easily create much richer documents ( Quick Styles , Themes , SmartArt , Picture Styles , Building Blocks
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A big part of Word 2010 is enabling what we call cutting-edge authoring . Cutting-edge authoring is all about making deep enhancements in the core document creation experience in Word, given the types of documents people are creating today (i.e., a lot
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We've all likely had adventures with paste in Word. While it's hard, if not impossible, to get paste "right" given the fact that we can't guess user intent with 100% accuracy, we're always working to make the most commonly used command in Word better.
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Personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot-button issue these days. If you've ever had your identity stolen, you'll understand why. Personally, I spent about six months clearing up my identity being stolen about a year ago. Lame. If are concerned
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This is a true story: I'm riding my bike home from work. It's a pretty long ride—almost 18 miles. I'm about a third of the way into it, past the first big intersection and pedaling along the shoulder up a slight grade when my cell phone rings. It's my
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Way down at the bottom of the early February post Word Q & A: Tables and Charts Francis made an interesting comment to which I replied asking for more info, but I fear nobody saw either of them as they were way down on the comment list of a month
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<disclaimer> My girlfriend and I finished watching the first season of Heroes this weekend, so please excuse this post. I mean after that amazing story, I had to write a story—albeit much, much less entertaining—of my own. </disclaimer> Introduction
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In my previous post we covered the what and the why of basic change tracking. In sum, change tracking allows you to see and act on who did what to your document. In this post we'll cover the what and the why of the various change tracking views/filters.
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Due to technical formatting limitations and my lame desire to try and be clever the real title of this post is: Be the Change Tracking You Want to See in the Wor l d Anyway… Change Tracking, a.k.a. Track Changes, a.k.a. redlining, a.k.a. the button I
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I have a new definition for comments: a soap box for us all. What better way to tell someone you are writing a document with, someone who is writing a blog post for a large corporation, or a someone who's writing a business analysis what you think about
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What is an ‘end user’ and why write a post specifically for them? The vast majority of Word users are ‘end users’. An ‘end user’ is someone who uses Word but is not involved in supporting or buying Word for a business. We call individuals who support
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The document review scenario has been significantly improved in Word 2007. It's pretty straightforward and powerful technology once you have the basic idea. So let's start with getting a grasp around the difference between Word's two document review options:
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