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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...
• Webinar: Spell Check and Proofing your Word doc

  7 Jan 2013

  In this week's webinar, we'll explore Word tools like AutoCorrect and Proofing options that help you polish your documents and make them shine. Can't view this video? It's also available at Microsoft Showcase . What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar: How to adjust your spelling and grammar options...
• 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...
• Top 10 reasons students will love Word 2013

  10 Oct 2012

  The new Office is packed with features that students will love and Word is no exception! Today, we present the Top 10 reasons we think students will be head over heels for Word 2013. Download the Customer Preview today and tell us which of these is your favorite new feature! 10. Working with web content...
• 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...
• 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...
• Reading in Word 2013

  7 Aug 2012

  Today’s post is written by the program managers who worked on the reading features in the latest version of Word. Who are we? Michelle Lisse focused on the overall Reading Mode experience, Alyshia Olsen represents the all new object zoom, Peter Frem headed up the newly improved navigation pane...