Word 2010 comes with key new features --including a customizable ribbon, new art effects, and the Navigation Pane. You can download and try out fully functional Word 2010 (along with the rest of Office 2010) for 60 days . Another option? Add the convenience of cloud computing with the Microsoft Office 365 Beta . Learn more about how this new offering can help you streamline your business and give you access to your work from anywhere. -- Joannie Stangeland

Earlier, we posted a video on making a booklet in Word 2007.

Now, let's take a look at Word 2010...

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Upgrading to Word 2010 from an early version of Word? Surprised by the default line spacing?

Word 2007 and Word 2010 have a different line spacing default than Word 2003 and earlier versions. Back in 2007, the product designers changed the default line spacing to improve document readability, according to a 2006 blog post by Stuart Stuple, one of the Microsoft Word program managers for Word 2007.

In addition to the default spacing change in Word 2007, Word 2010 introduces a paragraph spacing option that gives you even more control over your document style and appearance.

Find out how...

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People often want to add the location of their document--the filename and the file path--to the header or footer.

In Word 2010, you can do this by using field codes. It sounds more complicated than it is, so let's take a look.

 

For more information on field codes, see Insert and format field codes in Word.

-- Joannie Stangeland

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With mid-terms, exams, and most importantly, final papers coming up, I wanted to drill into some of the capabilities that might help student readers with their workloads. Citations, equations, and the like saw some pretty cool changes in 2007. References Tab The References Tab of the ribbon is kind of like a one stop shop for any true academic. You can see that everything lives here from the ability to quickly create a table of contents to putting in citations. I know that when I was in college,...

This week's word is an acronym: TOC, for table of contents.

And it's a problem for some of our customers. Or it's a few problems.

We're going to take a look at two of those persistent issues.

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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 realistically: "If Travis does not have the 2007 Office system and Jen emails him a Word document saved in Word 2007's new default format (.docx), is Travis stuck?" No. One of three things will happen when Travis, or anyone with Office 2003 or XP, tries...

My name is Nathan Kwan. I am a PM intern on the Microsoft Word team. My internship started in early January and is sadly coming to an end at the end of April. I'm a 4 th year student at the University of Waterloo working towards my Software Engineering degree. When I started on the team, I was given the bibliography feature. Being a student myself, I am a fan, so I was pretty excited to dig into it. What will this post cover? In Amani's last post , she showed you how to setup and build a simple bibliography...

On my post about how to add the file name and path to a header or footer, Steven asks a good question:

"Is there a way to save this into a shortcut for future use?"

I've found a few ways to do this...

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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 , etc.). In Word 2010, our cutting-edge authoring pillar builds on the 21 st Century Documents vision in that 21 st Century Documents often have multiple authors. To accommodate this, we're working to make co-authoring as natural as solo-authoring...