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Following up on Jon’s blog about questions that we are not posting about on our team’s blog, I wanted to share a new resource that just went live a few weeks ago. The new resource is called Community Clips and can be found at http://communityclips.officelabs.com/
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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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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
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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
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I am a big fan of track changes in Word. If I'm reviewing something Zeyad wrote up, I like that I can press one button, edit his document, and not worry about having to list all of the changes I made in an email…track changes does that for me. But, this
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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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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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In my previous posts I talked about Compatibility in Word 2007 , what it means to be in Compatibility Mode and how you get out of Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about Compatibility in Word 2007 as a collaboration scenario.
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This post was co-authored by Margaret Plumley. Margaret's been a member of the Word program management team for about 2-1/2 years and worked for Windows before then. If you've ever collaborated on a Word document you know all about 'Track Changes'. In
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In my last post about Compatibility in Word 2007 I talked about Compatibility Mode and how you get into Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about getting out of Compatibility Mode. Going back to the first post on Compatibility
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My name is Jennifer Michelstein, and I'm a Program Manager on the Word team. I mainly work on academic features, like bibliographies and citations (see Joe Friend's blog ) and equations. In Word 2007, we took a ground-up approach to creating a new set
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In today's post I am going to talk about opening or creating older file formats (.doc, .dot, .xml [Word 2003 XML Format]) in Word 2007. Opening or creating any of these older file formats in Word will result in Word being in Compatibility Mode . Going
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 have new XML based default file formats (Word -- .docx, Excel -- .xlsx, and PowerPoint -- .pptx). New formats?! You may be wondering : "How will these new formats affect previous releases of Office?" Or, put a bit more
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If you don't want to read this whole post, here's a quick demo of a document Theme being applied to copy & pasted content automatically . In my 21 st Century Document post & video , I touched on the "Theme" feature new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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FYI: Yesterday's 21 st Century Document video was created using the Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) of the Office 2007 system. For more info on B2TR of the Office 2007 system, check out: Review: Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh PC Magazine
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