Intro I just wanted to introduce myself quickly as I am a new poster. My name is Reed Shaffner and I am the newly appointed world-wide product manager for Microsoft Word. In addition to working on Word, I also do a lot of work around accessibility and sustained engineering across the Office Client. The Document Inspector Comments, personal information, hidden text, and more have always been a major pain point for users, particularly when they send information outside of their corporation. So in the...

How do you add a table of contents, or TOC, to your document?

How do you add a separate table of contents for each section?

How do you create a table of contents for multiple documents?

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Last year around this time I asked you what you'd like to see covered on the Word Team Blog in 2007 . Hopefully a good deal of your wishes came true. I'd like to take this year's wish list in a different direction. Inspired by Nathaniel Branden's The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem , I'd love if you'd humor me and give a little sentence completion exercise a whirl. Specifically, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd take one minute to complete the Word Team Blog's very first survey at: http://www.polldaddy...

Thank you to everyone who has posted questions. We're looking at them and looking into many of them. In the meantime, here are a couple that have cropped up in the hallways. And what are those links at the end? That's where you can find information in Word 2007 Help. Start with 1, but not at the start My nagging question is how can I configure page numbers to start on page 4 or 5 or 6? Scenario: I have a 20 page white paper. The first page is a title page, followed by a blank page, 2 pages of legal...

Though most documents created today are viewed online, a great many are still printed. We frequently hear requests asking how to make printed Word documents use less paper. Reducing unused space on the page is the most obvious way to reduce your document's printed size. However, keep in mind that the balance between whitespace and text is a key factor in any document's readability—when there is too little whitespace, text is harder to read. You should also consider the ways in which you are presenting...

Before I joined the Word team, when I thought about tables in Word, I thought of something like this: May June July Tom 2 2 7 Sally 3 3 8 Joe 4 4 9 After about a year of working on Word 2007, when I thought about tables in Word, I thought of something like this—thanks to the contextual presentation of Table Styles in Word 2007: May June July Tom 2 2 7 Sally 3 3 8 Joe 4 4 9 Then, after some lunches with and lessons from our resident table experts, I started to think about the following when I thought...

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...

Expose the Style Area Pane in Word 2010 to see what styles are being applied in your document.

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Following up on Stuart's comment about the purpose of the Word Team Blog, here are some great resources if you have questions we're not posting about. Office Online's Word Page http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/FX100487981033.aspx All sorts of free goodness from training courses to templates to how-to's for Word 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. Word 2007 Solution Center http://support.microsoft.com/ph/11377 Handy resource for the top Word 2007 issues and help with error messages, downloads and updates...

Way down at the bottom of the early February post Word Q & A: Tables and Charts Francis made an interesting comment to which I replied asking for more info, but I fear nobody saw either of them as they were way down on the comment list of a month old post. That being said, I've pasted Francis's comment below as well as my reply below and would love to hear everyone's thoughts. Francis's comment: Jason's comment about services is interesting. However, an application can lend itself to online activities...