While most people are thrilled with the flexibility provided by the Quick Styles and seem to really like the new default look, I am frequently asked about adjusting the space on the standard paragraph in a document. Some people prefer a tighter spacing than we offer by default and some folks don't like the spacing after the paragraph. The easiest way to adjust the spacing used for the Normal paragraphs in your document is to make the changes you want in the Format Paragraph dialog box and then click...

How do you add a bookmark to your document, so that you can jump to a specific location later?

People have been asking...

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I'm a fan of Tim Ferris , author of The Four Hour Work Week . Given this, you can imagine my horror when I found out via this video that Tim doesn't do much of his text editing in Word. Not big on documents (in the traditional sense of the word) and more about simply composing text for blogs etc, Tim is a fan of a very basic text editor that emulates the word processors of yore. Also, living his message of laser sharp focus on "major tasks," Tim is all about writing, and only writing. We're talking...

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. With that in mind, I've been looking into ways to create a Word 2007 version of the Word 2003 Redaction Add-In , as we know that it's been an issue for some of our users that this add-in isn't available for Word 2007. To that end, I'm really excited...

Hi, my name is Scott Stiles and I run the Program Management team for Word. The goal of this post is to provide some context regarding how we framed this release. As I've been largely behind the scenes in the context of this blog, I thought a quick introduction was in order. I've been with Microsoft for a total of just under 19 years on many different teams and in many different capacities. My first job at Microsoft (an internship during my senior year at college) happened to be in "product support...

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...

It’s been awhile, but for what it’s worth, the time has been spent planning a great Word vNext. Stay tuned for vNext posts. Anyway, while we have been working on vNext, we have certainly not forgotten about Word vNow (Word 2007) or Word vPast (Word 2003, XP, or 2000). In fact, during a trip I took last week to visit my family in Chicago and Columbus, OH, I spent a few hours familiarizing my mother, father, and brother with Word 2007 and was re-inspired to help ease the transition to Word 2007. I...

In my last three posts I talked about building blocks in general , how to insert and swap out building blocks , and creating building blocks . In today's post I am going to talk about how to deploy your customized building blocks to users. Deploying building blocks is cool because you can push out content for other people to reuse. Think copy and paste to the next level. Here is a cool scenario: Let's say you are lawyer who works on legal contracts all the time. You always use the same clauses in...

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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Over the last couple of months, we've posted about many of the exciting new features of Word 2010 – Co-authoring , the new Find experience , and the Word Web App . This week, at SharePoint Conference 2009, we announced one more (and one that I'm especially excited about): Word Automation Services . In the post on framing the Word 2010 release , one of the pillars described is "Word Power in New Contexts". Word Automation Services is a big part of that pillar, and represents our desire to ensure that...