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• Avoid repeating yourself: Create a Word macro

  13 Feb 2013

  Repeatedly entering the same information in document after document, over and over...there has to be a quicker way, right? Word macros can save you time (and potentially, some sanity) by automating repetitive tasks. Let's say you're a real estate agent. Every time you sell a house you have to add a client...
• Your top 10 favorite Word posts of 2012

  8 Jan 2013

  We looked at the year-end numbers to discover which things--so far--interest you most about the new Word and which posts about the current version you find most useful. If you haven't yet tried the new Office, visit the Customer Preview site. Top 5 posts about the new Word Introducing Word 2013 The blast...
• 'Tis the Season for Making 2013 Photo Calendars

  20 Dec 2012

  Guest blogger Cynthia Hartwig, co-owner of Two Pens (@twopens2), teaches business people how to write social media content from both sides of the brain. ) In the midst of shopping, tree trimming, cookie baking, and a whirlwind of holiday parties, who has time to build a 2013 calendar? (To download the...
• Juiced. Pickled. Canned. Use Word templates to label your holiday goodies

  19 Dec 2012

  ( Guest blogger Emily Warn is co-owner of Two Pens , which teaches people to write social media content from both sides of the brain. ) My handwriting is as legible as a doctor's. This holiday season that could have become a problem. Over the summer, my Italian plum trees pumped out fruit like a post...
• Webinar: Track changes and copyediting in Word

  3 Dec 2012

  Have you ever received a Word document with pesky editing lines? In this week's webinar, we'll show you how to use the Review tab. Learn how to edit, track changes, and work with comments in Word 2010 and Word 2013. Can't see this video? It's also viewable at Microsoft Showcase . There is also a 30-second...
• 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...
• 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...
• Present a Word document online

  11 Sep 2012

  You want to meet real time to write or refine a Word document but often times the people you need to meet with cannot be at the same place at the same time. With the growing usage of messaging and audio/video conferencing software, people are collaborating from multiple locations. Whether you’re...
• 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...
• Comments and Revisions in Word 2013

  28 Aug 2012

  Today's post comes from Jonathan Bailor, the program manager on the Word team responsible for features for comments and revision tracking. In his introductory post describing Word 2013, Tristan mentioned our focus on polishing existing user experiences/scenarios over “adding new features.”...
• 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...
• Getting hands-on with Word 2013

  16 Aug 2012

  Today’s post is all about touch, and is written by Michelle Lisse, the Word team’s touch Program Manager. These days there is a lot of excitement about touch computing. In the past we have had limited touch support in Word, but this time we went deeper and made some touch specific improvements...
• 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...
• Word video: Convert a table to text

  28 Mar 2012

  (Note: This post was first published in September 2010. ) If you have text, you can convert that into a table. You can also convert a table back into text. I've been seeing quite a few questions about this, so I thought it would make a good "Word of the week" video. In this example, the table contains...
• Making Valentine's Day Cards with Word

  7 Feb 2012

  I want my Valentine's Day card to be as special as the special someone I'm giving it to, and I'm not so good with scissors and glue. So I'm going to start with a template from Office.com , and then I'm going to customize my card, make it more personal. First, I find a template. I've decided on this half...