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A big part of being a program manager for Word is writing specs. The 'new world of Word' makes managing our specs much easier. Background To back-up a bit, 'specs' are the documents that we write to describe new features we plan to add to the next version
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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
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My name is Amani Ahmed and I'm the program manager whose primary focus is programmability, which are the tools needed to build applications on top of Word (i.e. macros, add-ins, etc) In the last post , Travis demonstrated the power of Word to transfer
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XML Mapping with Content Controls in Word Quick intro: My name is Travis Ratnam. I'm a program manager on the Word team by day and a professional magician by night… sort of like the guys in 'The Prestige.' I generally like to talk about escaping from
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Alright, here we are at the start of a new year - my first as a married individual (very exciting!) - which means it's time for a few more posts to continue my focus on extensibility features in Word. So far, in my series of posts on content controls
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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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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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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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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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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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