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Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:27 AM

WordMail – Part II

In my first post on WordMail , I talked about Word being fully integrated into Outlook 2007 in terms of reading and writing emails. Today, I am going to go over some of the reading and navigating improvements we have made by using WordMail within Outlook.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:07 PM

Behind the Curtain: Stories in Word

Note: This is the first of a series of "behind the curtain" posts where I'll share some of the inner workings of Word. These types of post will be less "tippy" and more "techie." While they will likely not be as immediately applicable as my traditional
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Monday, September 22, 2008 6:50 PM

A Word 2007 Redaction Tool

As someone who cares a lot about programmability in Word, I'm always looking for ways to showcase how powerful our object model is, and how it can be used to build really great solutions. With that in mind, I've been looking into ways to create a Word
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Monday, September 15, 2008 11:38 AM

WordMail – Part I

My last blog post series was about building blocks and backwards compatibility . In this series, I'll cover how Word is used within Outlook. We typically refer to the experience of using Word within Outlook as WordMail . In my next few posts, I will talk
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Friday, September 05, 2008 1:59 PM

Pasting Tracked Changes

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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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:31 AM

ENCRYPTING DOCUMENTS

If you haven't seen the show Alias , I highly recommend it. My fiancée [formerly referred to as my girlfriend…picture from the big day below J ] and I are about half way through the first season, and it's so good that I've decided to become an operative
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:23 PM

Out in the field (code)

When it comes to field codes, we find several different camps. First, there's the group who says, "We need more documentation, with better examples." Then, there's who says, "You don't need to know about field codes. They are so old fashioned." Another
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 6:48 PM

Tip of the Week: Make That Look Like This

Have you ever wanted to make some text in your document look like other text in your document? Or maybe you made a picture look just right in last week's status report and really don't want to start from scratch on the picture in this week's status report.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 2:33 PM

The Little Things: Ellipsis Ending a Sentence

In Word 2007, when you end a sentence with an ellipsis…i.e. you tap the period key four times…you get an ellipsis and a period, not four periods. Ellipsis and a period : I wanted an easy way to refer to specific lines in the document during conversations.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:28 PM

Handy How To Videos

If you need something to watch over lunch, check-out the following new Word 2007 How To videos from Office Online [text below reused from Office Online]: Add and remove page breaks : Frustrated with the layout of your document? By taking advantage of
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Friday, July 18, 2008 2:14 PM

Line Numbering

I recently had a friend email me a Word document where just about every line was part of a numbered list. When I asked my friend why he did this he replied: "I wanted an easy way to refer to specific lines in the document during conversations. Now I can
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:34 AM

Picture Styles

While I’m obviously a fan of Word 2007, there are only a few things in Word 2007 that literally left me speechless the first time I experienced them. Picture Styles are one of those things. It’s hard to do justice to the simplicity and impact of this
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:14 PM

Widows & Orphans

Hi everyone. My name is Leslie Cole and I write help content for Word. This is my first blog entry, and it was prompted by a number of customer questions about the subject of widows and orphans. Let me know if I answered your question; I look forward
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:00 PM

Mac Compatibility Pack Released

If you know anyone who uses Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2004 for Mac, please let them know that the Mac version of the Compatibility Pack is now available. From the download page: "[The] Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were
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Monday, June 23, 2008 5:09 PM

More Q&A: Columns and Text Wrapping

We saw some questions around columns and text wrapping in Word popping-up in the blogosphere recently, so in today's Q&A: How do I layout part of my document in columns? How do I get my figures/images/objects on the right side of my document and the
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