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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...
• 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...
• Understanding the DOCX File Format: Part 2

  12 Oct 2010

  Following up on his post in September, Chris Rae has now posted the second in his series of posts around reading or writing Word's DOCX file format – check it out here . - Tristan
• Understanding the DOCX File Format

  29 Sep 2010

  Chris Rae, one of the program managers in the Office Interoperability Group, has just published the first in a series of posts about how to get started if you're interested in reading or writing Word's DOCX file format – check it out here . Working with our files is common source of questions,...
• Object Model Considerations for Protected View in Word 2010

  13 Sep 2010

  I got some great questions recently about macros and Protected View in Word 2010, and thought I'd write something up to help anyone else who's looking at this issue - enjoy! Word 2010 includes enhancements to security, one of which is the inclusion of a Protected View used when opening files from untrusted...
• Word Automation Services: What It Does

  16 Dec 2009

  Following up on my first post about Word Automation Services, I wanted to continue by talking about the functionality offered (and not offered) by the service, how it's exposed, and the types of solutions you will be able to build on top of it. What the Service Does Functionally, the service is very...
• A Word 2007 Redaction Tool

  22 Sep 2008

  Update: Links updated to v1.0 version of the tool [12.4.08 5pm PST] As someone who cares a lot about programmability in Word, I'm always looking for ways to showcase how powerful our object model is, and how it can be used to build really great solutions. With that in mind, I've been looking into ways...
• 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...
• Extending the Document Inspector

  5 Apr 2007

  In my last post we talked about the document inspector (DI) functionality available out of the box in the Office Word 2007; however, we neglected to cover all of the rich extensibility that's possible. So, after some delay, here we go. We can create new inspector modules in unmanaged and managed code...
• Independent Word Experts

  22 Mar 2007

  Last week we had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with eleven of the most knowledgeable Word users in the world. Specifically, eleven of the thirty-five Word MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) came from all over the world to chat with the Word product team about the good, bad, and ugly of Word...
• 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...
• 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...
• Programmatically opening & saving the new default file formats in previous versions of Office

  30 Oct 2006

  This is a follow up post to Jonathan's Opening & Saving Word, PowerPoint and Excel's new default file formats in previous versions of Office . So not only can you use the user interface to open and save the new default Office 2007 Open XML file formats in previous versions of Office when the Compatibility...
• 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...