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• 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...
• The New World of Word

  13 Jul 2007

  A big part of being a program manager for Word is writing specs. The 'new world of Word' makes managing our specs much easier. Background To back-up a bit, 'specs' are the documents that we write to describe new features we plan to add to the next version of Word/Office. For a given version of Office...
• Migrating Mail Merge Fields to Content Controls

  29 Mar 2007

  Edit: Fixed up the unnecessary line breaks that appeared post-publish. There are many of you out there who have used mail merge to get data into Word documents in the past (and it continues to be a great way to create mailings), but one of the questions we've been asked a few times already by customers...
• XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

  18 Jan 2007

  My name is Amani Ahmed and I'm the program manager whose primary focus is programmability, which are the tools needed to build applications on top of Word (i.e. macros, add-ins, etc) In the last post , Travis demonstrated the power of Word to transfer data seamlessly back and forth with a SharePoint...
• Mapping Magic

  16 Jan 2007

  XML Mapping with Content Controls in Word Quick intro: My name is Travis Ratnam. I'm a program manager on the Word team by day and a professional magician by night… sort of like the guys in 'The Prestige.' I generally like to talk about escaping from straightjackets or making wild animals magically appear...
• Separate Yet Equal

  10 Jan 2007

  Alright, here we are at the start of a new year - my first as a married individual (very exciting!) - which means it's time for a few more posts to continue my focus on extensibility features in Word. So far, in my series of posts on content controls , I've tried to describe what they do, and why we...
• What does structured editing mean anyway? (Part 2)

  29 Nov 2006

  In the first half of this two-part thought, I talked about the first major component of structured editing –enabling people to "tame the beast" of the freeform surface that is Word, in order to ensure that documents which contain structured content can be locked down as necessary to maintain the integrity...
• Inserting and Swapping Building Blocks

  22 Nov 2006

  In my first post on building blocks, I talked about the different types of building blocks available and the concept of building blocks being able to "know" where to get inserted. For example, headers and footers get inserted in the header or footer region of the document…imagine that :) In today's post...
• Building Blocks – Part I

  21 Nov 2006

  A cool new feature we have added in Word 2007 is the ability to reuse content easily in order to help you put together great looking documents. We call this feature building blocks . Building blocks are essentially parts of a document that can be reused. For example, a company logo with a textual slogan...
• Meet the Controls

  17 Nov 2006

  So in the last post , we went over what I mean by the concept of structured editing in Word. I deliberately skipped over the awesome work we did in this same space in Word 2003, and I'm going to keep saving that for the future. In this post, I want to finish my first thought and go through the types...
• 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...
• What does structured editing mean anyway? (Part 1)

  30 Oct 2006

  Ah, structured editing. I hear that term a lot, but I know it often means different things to different people. So far, I've talked about what content controls are , and locking (which is a big part of structuring a document, as I use the term), but over this and the next post, I'm going to try to clarify...
• Protect Me

  26 Oct 2006

  Tristan again – in my first post , I tried to give a really brief overview of the new content control functionality in Word 2007. In that post I had a list of the different aspects of what we did that excite me, and in the next few posts, I'm going to dig into each of the things I talked about, why we...
• Control Yourself…

  23 Oct 2006

  Another post, another Word Program Manager… My name is Tristan Davis and over the last 3 years as a Program Manager (or PM if you want to use Microsoft-speak) on the Word team, I've focused on three things: Losing 60 pounds, joining the Ecma TC45 Technical Committee as the WordprocessingML expert and...