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Update: Links updated to v1.0 version of the tool [12.4.08 5pm PST] 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.
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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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In my last post we talked about the document inspector (DI) functionality available out of the box in the Office Word 2007; however, we neglected to cover all of the rich extensibility that's possible. So, after some delay, here we go. We can create new
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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
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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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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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This is a follow up post to Jonathan's Opening & Saving Word, PowerPoint and Excel's new default file formats in previous versions of Office . So not only can you use the user interface to open and save the new default Office 2007 Open XML file formats
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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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