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• 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...
• Track changes--a book's worth of working together (video)

  26 Apr 2011

  Meet two blogging moms who have a book coming out soon, and hear how they used Microsoft Office--especially Word and the Track Changes feature--to write it and make changes without losing their work. (Spoiler alert: I like the part in this video about the different colors.) To learn more about tracking...
• 4 ways to work together in Word

  25 Mar 2011

  Team project? Tight deadline? And one of your team members is away at the beach for the week? You can use Word to work together on your reports and projects from start to finish. And you can all work on a document at the same time, without having to send a dozen copies in email or bury yourself in a...
• Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

  9 Sep 2009

  When we first started blogging about Word 2007, we talked a lot about 21 st Century Documents . Our vision was that Word 2007 would allow authors to easily create much richer documents ( Quick Styles , Themes , SmartArt , Picture Styles , Building Blocks , etc.). In Word 2010, our cutting-edge authoring...
• Co-authoring – Where We are Coming From

  24 Aug 2009

  A big part of Word 2010 is enabling what we call cutting-edge authoring . Cutting-edge authoring is all about making deep enhancements in the core document creation experience in Word, given the types of documents people are creating today (i.e., a lot more than just plain text) and the way people are...
• Pasting Tracked Changes

  5 Sep 2008

  We've all likely had adventures with paste in Word. While it's hard, if not impossible, to get paste "right" given the fact that we can't guess user intent with 100% accuracy, we're always working to make the most commonly used command in Word better. Since we ship only once every couple of years, let...
• Who is "Author?"

  13 Jun 2008

  Personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot-button issue these days. If you've ever had your identity stolen, you'll understand why. Personally, I spent about six months clearing up my identity being stolen about a year ago. Lame. If are concerned with PII in your Word documents—because maybe...
• Word Q & A: Is the change tracking off?

  6 Jun 2008

  This is a true story: I'm riding my bike home from work. It's a pretty long ride—almost 18 miles. I'm about a third of the way into it, past the first big intersection and pedaling along the shoulder up a slight grade when my cell phone rings. It's my husband. "How do I turn those change marks off?"...
• Comment on Collaborative Authoring

  6 Mar 2008

  Way down at the bottom of the early February post Word Q & A: Tables and Charts Francis made an interesting comment to which I replied asking for more info, but I fear nobody saw either of them as they were way down on the comment list of a month old post. That being said, I've pasted Francis's comment...
• Who Can Change What When?

  7 Dec 2007

  <disclaimer> My girlfriend and I finished watching the first season of Heroes this weekend, so please excuse this post. I mean after that amazing story, I had to write a story—albeit much, much less entertaining—of my own. </disclaimer> Introduction In my last few posts we chatted about how...
• Change Tracking Views/Filters

  20 Nov 2007

  In my previous post we covered the what and the why of basic change tracking. In sum, change tracking allows you to see and act on who did what to your document. In this post we'll cover the what and the why of the various change tracking views/filters. In sum, now that you can see who did what, we'll...
• See below for real title

  9 Nov 2007

  Due to technical formatting limitations and my lame desire to try and be clever the real title of this post is: Be the Change Tracking You Want to See in the Wor l d Anyway… Change Tracking, a.k.a. Track Changes, a.k.a. redlining, a.k.a. the button I press when I want to keep track of who is doing what...
• The Evolution of the Soapbox

  2 Nov 2007

  I have a new definition for comments: a soap box for us all. What better way to tell someone you are writing a document with, someone who is writing a blog post for a large corporation, or a someone who's writing a business analysis what you think about their writing, product, or business advice, than...
• A Compatibility Guide for the ‘End User’

  14 Aug 2007

  What is an ‘end user’ and why write a post specifically for them? The vast majority of Word users are ‘end users’. An ‘end user’ is someone who uses Word but is not involved in supporting or buying Word for a business. We call individuals who support or buy Word for businesses IT Administrators (IT Admins...
• Comparing and Combining Documents

  6 Aug 2007

  The document review scenario has been significantly improved in Word 2007. It's pretty straightforward and powerful technology once you have the basic idea. So let's start with getting a grasp around the difference between Word's two document review options: compare and combine. While they both tell...