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21st Century Documents

• New XML Mapping tool for Word developers

  27 Sep 2011

  Today's post is guest written by Tristan Davis, a program manager on the Word team. As part of the Word team, one of the things I'm responsible for is extensibility. In that role, I've had the opportunity to see how Word developers are building solutions on top of our object model, and to hear a lot...
• Win with a dream theme

  30 Aug 2011

  You've dotted every i and crossed every t. Wait, does anyone do that anymore? You get the idea. It's down to the wire, and you've added one last illuminating chart, a chilling conclusion, and a stunning cover page to the research paper that cost you more in caffeine bills to date than any other. What...
• So many chart options, so little time

  4 Aug 2011

  Tables are designed to present easily scan able raw data, according to Word writer Ron Owens in a Word blog post about table styles . Charts also provide a visual picture of a large quantity of data, but they have the added benefit of illustrating relationships between pieces of data. If you have presented...
• Picture Styles

  11 Jul 2008

  While I’m obviously a fan of Word 2007, there are only a few things in Word 2007 that literally left me speechless the first time I experienced them. Picture Styles are one of those things. It’s hard to do justice to the simplicity and impact of this feature with words, so here’s my attempt to let Picture...
• New & Really Nice Templates Released

  5 May 2008

  Some new and really nice business templates just got released on Office Online. An example of one of the "Professional services flyers" is below. Check the rest out here . -Jonathan
• Making your Output Greener

  18 Mar 2008

  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...
• What does single spacing really mean anyway?

  23 Oct 2007

  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...
• Microsoft Office Webcasts & Developer Roadmap

  1 Nov 2006

  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 Made Simple with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint...
• Contextual Spell Checking

  25 Oct 2006

  Spellchecking is not perfect, but I would not have gotten through school without it. :) Despite my love for spelling and grammar checking, I'm aware of its limitations. Specifically, previous versions of Word will tell you when what you type is misspelled or grammatically incorrect, but it does not catch...
• Excellent Past Word Posts

  26 Sep 2006

  In an effort to live up to this blog's 'All things Microsoft Office Word...' subtitle, here are some excellent past Word related posts from Joe Friend's blog . The new document look : One of the things that we hope you notice as soon as you start working with Word 2007 is that the new font, new line...
• Copying, Pasting, and Theming, oh my

  22 Sep 2006

  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 2007. Put simply, a document Theme is a set...
• Scenario: Creating a 21st Century Document

  18 Sep 2006

  If you don't want to read this whole post, but would like to see a demo of how Word 2007 makes it easy to create 21 st Century/professional looking documents, you can check out this post's video . But, the post's got some good stuff in it too :) One of the core scenarios we targeted with Word 2007 is...
• Intro/ Seeing the Forest for the Trees

  15 Sep 2006

  Welcome to the Microsoft Office Word Team's blog; your source for all things Word related. I'm Jonathan Bailor, a program manager on the Word team. I joined the Word program management team about a year ago and before that interned as a program manager for the MSN Search team. My focus over the past...