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• 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...
• Understanding images: Part 3 - Anchoring

  9 Jun 2011

  Why do figures (images) sometimes jump to a different page in your Word document? This is one of the great mysteries of Word and today, I’ll reveal the answer. To get to the bottom of this question, it’s important to understand the concept of anchoring . In a previous post, I covered the...
• Multilevel Lists vs List Styles

  25 Jun 2009

  Introduction A common question that comes up is about the difference between multilevel lists and list styles. Stuart discussed these two list types in his post The Many Levels of Lists . What I hope to do in this blog post is an in-depth look at the similarities and differences between these two concepts...
• Office Palooza

  2 Jun 2009

  Hello! My name is Stephen Oliver and I'm a programming writer at Microsoft. From time-to-time, I'll post Office developer-oriented tips—specifically around Word. Today's post is simply to alert you to a great resource for sharpening your Office automation skills— Office Palooza . Office Palooza was a...
• BEHIND THE CURTAINS: TABLE STYLES

  24 Nov 2008

  Table Styles are my favorite type of Style in Word. They allow you to quickly and consistently format the table itself (e.g. borders, shading, etc.), the content within the table (E.g. line spacing, font color, font size, etc.), and they can also can tell a table when to do these (e.g. shade every other...
• Keyboard Customizations and Macros in WordMail

  17 Nov 2008

  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...
• BEHIND THE CURTAIN: STYLES, DOC DEFAULTS, STYLE SETS, AND THEMES

  28 Oct 2008

  Intro Building off of my last Behind the Curtain post , this post will dig into the "other 20%" and specifically answer the following three questions on Styles: How do Document Defaults relate to the Normal Style? How do Style Sets relate to Styles? How do Themes relate to Styles? We've got a lot to...
• BEHIND THE CURTAIN: STYLES’ ORDER OF OPERATIONS

  16 Oct 2008

  Intro: What's a Style In Word, a style defines a set of formatting properties that are indirectly applied to characters, paragraphs, list, or tables. Instead of directly applying bold, then 14 point font, and then red to text, you can use a style to indirectly apply these three things in a single click...
• Behind the Curtain: Stories in Word

  2 Oct 2008

  Note: This is the first of a series of "behind the curtain" posts where I'll share some of the inner workings of Word. These types of post will be less "tippy" and more "techie." While they will likely not be as immediately applicable as my traditional posts, they will give you a deeper understanding...