I don't post here often, so I'll remind you who I am. My name is Roxanne Kenison, and I'm on the team that publishes Word-related content on Office Online . When you first booted up Word 2007 and started working on documents, you probably noticed that Word 2007's default layout is to space lines a little looser on the page than in previous versions. In general, this makes for documents that are easier on the eye because there's more white space. It's better document design, and one of the design...

Well, we wanted to make sure that we got you the rest of these good articles, so here they are. Thanks again to Genevieve who did all of the great work on putting this together. Before we jump into the list, I also wanted to call out the availability of Office 2003 SP3. It launched last week and has some really great stuff in it for security, stability, and a ton of customer requested fixes that we were able to address. You can either wait for it to show up in automatic update or jump here. 26.)...

Note: This post is an extended reply to Ilya's comment on my last post If you've ever worked document with more than one person, then you've likely had to deal with this type of nonsense: Sally likes to emphasize text by making it 13 point and bold, Sam prefers to change the font and italicize it, Billy used Emphasis Style, and on, and on. Because of this, not only do you have to work to make the language in your co-authored document consistent, but you've got to deal with formatting inconsistencies...

In my first blog post , I gave an overview of some of the concepts with respect to building blocks and several readers commented with questions/concerns with regard to the management of building blocks. I felt like this was a large enough topic that it was worth dedicating a post to. There are 2 aspects of management that I will cover in this post. First, I want to share a little bit about file level management/organization of building blocks and second, I will talk about sharing building blocks...

 

It’s all about the little things. In Word 2013, we made improvements to how you'd work with tables to make your lives a little bit easier by simplifying the scenarios for formatting a table and quickly adding rows or columns to it. Read on to find out more!

 

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We’ve all received PDF files with content that we wanted to reuse. This means that most of us have been disappointed by the difficulty of getting good content out of a PDF. For example, if you try to copy and paste table rows from a PDF viewer into Word, you frequently end up with a collapsed single line of text.  Most existing PDF viewers, in essence, limit people who use PDF’s to a “look but don’t touch” experience.  PDF Reflow, a new feature in the upcoming release of Word, changes the landscape by letting you convert PDFs into editable Word documents.

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Following on our introductory post to Word 2013 by Tristan Davis, here we discuss how we've polished the scenarios around reviewing documents using comments and tracked changes. We've improved how we display comments and revisions, and added some nifty features to make your scenarios easier. Read on to see what it's all about.

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I'm Jodie Boyer, the newest PM on the Word Team. I joined the Word team 6 months ago after spending 5 years in graduate school working towards a PhD in Computer Science. I decided to leave the program earlier this year, and I will receive a master's degree as soon as I complete my thesis. When I started on the team, I was given 2 features, namely Building Blocks and Templates. Building Blocks were relatively new to me, so I had to spend a lot of time developing expertise on them. Because the best...

In my first post on WordMail , I talked about how we fully integrated Word within Outlook for reading and writing emails. From a feature perspective, Word and WordMail are functionally the same. In other words, you have access to much of the same features in WordMail as in Word. However, from a technical perspective, Word and WordMail are two separate processes or entities. This is important to note because keyboard customizations and macros that work in Word will not automatically be available in...

It's super easy to put generic text into a Word document for all of your filler text needs (especially useful during demos and presentations). Just start a new paragraph and: Type "=rand()" and press Enter for three paragraphs of text Type "=lorem()"and press Enter for three paragraphs of random characters that approximate a normal distribution of letters know as Lorem Ipsum Example of the result of "=rand()" On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the...