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• Starting from blank: Design templates in the Word 2013

  31 Oct 2012

  Today we welcome back Seth Fox, Word team Program Manager, to explain how you can easily start new documents that come with built-in personality. Last month I introduced the Start screen in the Word 2013 and discussed how templates and built-in content can be used to quickly create great looking documents...
• Top 5 reasons developers will love Word 2013

  17 Oct 2012

  Developers have long been able to leverage Word’s programmability model to extend the functionality of Word and deliver amazing results. Today we’re going to highlight 5 new features that makes the Word 2013 better than ever for developers. 1. Apps for Word - embracing the cloud Apps for...
• Top 10 reasons students will love Word 2013

  10 Oct 2012

  The new Office is packed with features that students will love and Word is no exception! Today, we present the Top 10 reasons we think students will be head over heels for Word 2013. Download the Customer Preview today and tell us which of these is your favorite new feature! 10. Working with web content...
• Optimizing Word 2013 for Windows RT

  2 Oct 2012

  This week's post comes from Sean Azlin, the program manage on the Word team who has been working to make Word shine on Windows RT. Like you, we here on the Word team are pumped about Windows 8 and Windows RT. We’re equally excited to be shipping Office Home & Student 2013 RT with Windows RT...
• What's new in Word Automation Services

  26 Sep 2012

  This week's post comes from Zeyad Rajabi, who helped create Word Automation Services in Office 2010 and has been driving improvements to the services in the new Office. In Office 2010, we introduced a brand new SharePoint service called Word Automation Services. Word Automation Services allows developers...
• Working with images gets simpler in the new Word

  19 Sep 2012

  This week's post comes from Theresa Estrada, the Word team program manager working on improvements to images. How many times have you tried to move an image or a chart in Word and gotten frustrated when it unexpectedly landed somewhere other than where it was dropped? Working with images is one of the...
• Starting off right: Templates and built-in content in the new Word

  14 Sep 2012

  This week's post comes from Seth Fox, the Word program manager who has been working closely with our design team to bring fresh new content to Word 2013. We know you put a lot of effort into making a document look great. At the end of the day, you want a polished document that invites people in. One...
• Changing your style in the new Word

  6 Sep 2012

  Today's post comes from Caitlin Ashley-Rollman, the program manager who has brought a whole new style to Word. For as much time as people spend writing documents in Word, we know that users also spend lots of time formatting their documents to get them to look exactly as they want. There are lots of...
• Working with tables in the new Word

  30 Aug 2012

  Today's post comes from Caitlin Ashley-Rollman, the program manager on the Word team responsible for improving our Tables experience. It’s all about the little things. For this release of Word, we wanted to make your lives a little bit easier by simplifying the tasks you do every day. Since tables...
• Webinar: Previewing Word 2013

  27 Aug 2012

  In this week's webinar, we'll spin the wheels of Word 2013, something you can also do right now during our free Customer Preview . What you will learn Improvements to enjoy document reading New ways to share your document Adding video, pictures with confidence A whole new experience with PDFs References...
• Lights.. Camera.. Action! Adding videos to your Word documents

  23 Aug 2012

  Today's post comes from Seth Fox, the program manager on the Word team responsible for adding web videos to Word documents. Videos are a great way to engage a reader, tell a story, invoke emotion, and communicate effectively. They are found all over the web (news articles, blogs, websites, etc.) and...
• Updating layout in Word 2013 while maintaining compatibility

  21 Aug 2012

  This week's post comes from Theresa Estrada, the program manager responsible for layout in Word. Since the Office Customer Preview was announced a few weeks ago, we’ve talked quite bit about the vision for the product and the new features that you’ll be able to take advantage of when you...
• Unlock PDFs with Word 2013

  9 Aug 2012

  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 rich 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...
• Reading in Word 2013

  7 Aug 2012

  Today’s post is written by the program managers who worked on the reading features in the latest version of Word. Who are we? Michelle Lisse focused on the overall Reading Mode experience, Alyshia Olsen represents the all new object zoom, Peter Frem headed up the newly improved navigation pane...
• Introducing Word 2013

  30 Jul 2012

  Today Tristan Davis, Senior Lead Program Manager on the Word Team, introduces you to Word 2013. Last Monday, we announced the Office Customer Preview - now that the Preview is publically available, I wanted to kick off a series of Word 2013-focused posts by giving you an introduction to the new release...