Word 2010 – Framing the Release

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

ron007 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:50:11 GMT

Oh, yes, and you "forgot" to give us the history of search values that we have in the old Find and Replace dialog...

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

ron007 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:26:52 GMT

Thanks for sharing these design principles.

In what way is the integration of Find into the Nav Pain <sic> "Polished".

- If I want to do advanced find I still have to use the pre ribbon "gooey" Find and Replace dialog. Yes, I've seen the new "options" dialog, but that is only the lesser half of advanced find.

- why is there no keyboard shortcut access to the advanced find functionality. The only way to access it is via mouse or indirectly by first invoking Replace shortcut keys?

- when I invoke the old Find and Replace dialog it still has the "more" option. That is a design choice that goes back to early 1990's or before, when screen resolution was below 800x600. Why are we still forced to click on the More button? It should be displayed expanded by default. At the very least, there should be a selectable option to do so

- why do we still have the "Format" drop down. At very least those options could be moved up as separate buttons / hyperlinks on the find dialog. There is more than enough space available on the existing dialog box

- why does the Replace tab add the <ALT><W> shortcut indicator for "Ignore white-space characters", when it is not functional, and actually conflicts with the previously established <ALT><W> for "Find all word Forms" option?

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

Bill Coan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:53:48 GMT

Amani Dye (MS) wrote: >> Bill - We've enabled macro recording for

>> many of our new features. Please let me

>> know if you see places were people are

>> having a difficulty learning the new

>> OM because we didn’t add macro recording. Two areas to consider: 1. Word Options

2. Insert SmartArt. These actions produce no recorded code. In the case of the options, it is only through recording that a user can find out whether a checkmark in the user interface equates to True or False. For some options, a checkmark equates to True. To others, it equates to False. Worse yet, a checkmark that equates to True in Office 2003 sometimes equates to False in Office 2007. The ability to record changes to options would clarify how the OM behaves and make clear that it changes from one release to the next. Example (reported by Lene Fredborg):

Word 2003:

In VBA, you need to set the option to _False_ in order to turn it on which actually seems logical when you look at the name of the constant "wdExpandShiftReturn" (but the label in the GUI is opposite): ActiveDocument.Compatibility(wdExpandShiftReturn) = False Word 2007:

In VBA, you need to set the option to _True_ in order to turn it on: ActiveDocument.Compatibility(wdExpandShiftReturn) = True In the case of SmartArt, users unfamiliar with Word or with Word's OM would benefit from being able to record a macro to establish appropriate commands for manipulating SmartArt.

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

Karthik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:37:51 GMT

Hi Jonathan, Your answer does addressed my question, Thank you very much. Best Regards,

Karthik

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

wrdblog — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:44:34 GMT

Hi Karthik – Sorry for the delay…let me know if this doesn’t answer your question: Office users with the latest compatibility pack and Office 2007 SP2 users will be able to read IS29500 documents. There will of course be new feature innovations in future versions of Office. Historically, neither Microsoft nor others in industry have back-ported new features to older products. As a result, there may be scenarios in which new features are not included in certain documents; again, this is common to virtually all software applications that introduce new features with new releases. We will provide guidance on which features of Office 2010 are affected later in our release cycle. - Jonathan Bailor (MS)

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

LGFN — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:31:43 GMT

Thank you very much, Scott! I'm now looking forward to Word 15! :)

re: Find and Replace

wrdblog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:56:10 GMT

LGFN - Thanks for the feedback and suggestion. You are correct that you are currently limited to a single set of formatting applied to a given search term (and many users don't even realize that you can do that much). I'll admit to only having been involved in this feature area for a short amount of time, but this is the first request I've heard along these lines. I can imagine a number of scenarios where this would be useful, and will pass along the suggestion. Thanks!

--Scott Walker (MS)

Find and Replace

LGFN — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:30:14 GMT

I don't know if here is the right place to post this question, but I don't see any better place. We all know, the find and replace in Word is a very powerful feature especially when using wildcards, but one thing that I think will truly top it off, is that it should be possible to search for multiple formatting in one find, i.e. the first word should be bold and not the second etc. it's a feature that's on my mind for years and I look forward every new release but to no avail. Thank you!

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

wrdblog — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:49:56 GMT

Hi Roman - More details on Word on the server will be comming in the next few months. Stay tuned. - Jonathan Bailor (MS)

re: Word 2010 – Framing the Release

Karthik — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:23:20 GMT

Will there be any breaking changes in-terms of file format specification ? Thanks,