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• 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...
• Change the default line spacing in Word

  6 Mar 2012

  (Note: Since so many people continue to ask us about how to change line spacing in Word 2010, we decided to re-publish this post.) When the default line spacing in documents changed from single spacing in Word 2003 to a slightly roomier 1.15 spacing in Word 2007 and Word 2010, customers asked the inevitable...
• Turn Track Changes off or on, or hide or reveal tracked changes

  19 Apr 2011

  Today's post about track changes in Word is contributed by Louis Broome, a manager and writer for Office.com . To turn Track Changes off, on the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes button (the paper & pencil with the healthy orange glow, pictured below). Here's the relevant...
• Word 2010 on TV!

  13 Dec 2010

  Chris Bryant, product manager for Office, just published a post about his experience behind the scenes for Word's recent appearance on the Martha Stewart show – check it out here . It's awesome to see the beautiful content that they were able to create in such a short segment; check it out, and us know...
• Office Labs and Community Clips

  16 May 2008

  Following up on Jon’s blog about questions that we are not posting about on our team’s blog, I wanted to share a new resource that just went live a few weeks ago. The new resource is called Community Clips and can be found at http://communityclips.officelabs.com/ . Unlike our other help and how-to resources...
• 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...
• The Many Levels of Lists

  8 Mar 2007

  Word "thinks" in terms of lists of nine levels. Even when you only have a simple, one-level list, Word has eight other levels stored off-stage. It's these additional levels that come into play when you indent a numbered entry and the number format changes (whether by using tab or the Increase Indent...
• Links for the Weekend

  2 Mar 2007

  Two interesting links to check-out: The Office Migration Planning Manager : The Office Migration Planning Manager is a collection of tools which ease migration to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Specifically for Word 2007, the OMPM includes the Version Extraction Tool which allows each version of a...
• Who Changed What When?

  29 Jan 2007

  I am a big fan of track changes in Word. If I'm reviewing something Zeyad wrote up, I like that I can press one button, edit his document, and not worry about having to list all of the changes I made in an email…track changes does that for me. But, this only works if I track changes. One of the most...
• 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...
• 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...
• Compatibility in Word 2007 – Part IV

  13 Oct 2006

  In my previous posts I talked about Compatibility in Word 2007 , what it means to be in Compatibility Mode and how you get out of Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about Compatibility in Word 2007 as a collaboration scenario. That is, getting into and out of Compatibility...
• Nice Move: Move Tracking in Word 2007

  13 Oct 2006

  This post was co-authored by Margaret Plumley. Margaret's been a member of the Word program management team for about 2-1/2 years and worked for Windows before then. If you've ever collaborated on a Word document you know all about 'Track Changes'. In previous versions of Word, if you cut part of your...
• Compatibility in Word 2007 - Part III

  9 Oct 2006

  In my last post about Compatibility in Word 2007 I talked about Compatibility Mode and how you get into Compatibility Mode in Word 2007. In today's post I am going to talk about getting out of Compatibility Mode. Going back to the first post on Compatibility in Word 2007, I am referring to the top and...
• Equations in Word 2007

  4 Oct 2006

  My name is Jennifer Michelstein, and I'm a Program Manager on the Word team. I mainly work on academic features, like bibliographies and citations (see Joe Friend's blog ) and equations. In Word 2007, we took a ground-up approach to creating a new set of tools for editing and displaying equations. Here...
• Compatibility in Word 2007 – Part II

  3 Oct 2006

  In today's post I am going to talk about opening or creating older file formats (.doc, .dot, .xml [Word 2003 XML Format]) in Word 2007. Opening or creating any of these older file formats in Word will result in Word being in Compatibility Mode . Going back to the first post on compatibility in Word 2007...
• Opening & Saving Word, PowerPoint and Excel’s new default file formats in previous versions of Office

  27 Sep 2006

  Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 have new XML based default file formats (Word -- .docx, Excel -- .xlsx, and PowerPoint -- .pptx). New formats?! You may be wondering : "How will these new formats affect previous releases of Office?" Or, put a bit more realistically: "If Travis does not have the 2007...
• Copying, Pasting, and Theming, oh my

  22 Sep 2006

  If you don't want to read this whole post, here's a quick demo of a document Theme being applied to copy & pasted content automatically . In my 21 st Century Document post & video , I touched on the "Theme" feature new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. Put simply, a document Theme is a set...
• Updated Office Beta and Video Blogging

  19 Sep 2006

  FYI: Yesterday's 21 st Century Document video was created using the Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) of the Office 2007 system. For more info on B2TR of the Office 2007 system, check out: Review: Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh PC Magazine Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Adds UI, Performance...
• Scenario: Creating a 21st Century Document

  18 Sep 2006

  If you don't want to read this whole post, but would like to see a demo of how Word 2007 makes it easy to create 21 st Century/professional looking documents, you can check out this post's video . But, the post's got some good stuff in it too :) One of the core scenarios we targeted with Word 2007 is...