Introducing Word 2010!

re: Introducing Word 2010!

fm41 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:02:28 GMT

hello everyone,

I'm using Word2010 and use tables. My problem is when a page break occurs, word splits the table on both sites. But I like it on one page, how can I do this? Is there an option which I can activate, so the tables stick together? Thanks!

re: Introducing Word 2010!

wrdblog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:45:28 GMT

Hi Jim – Re: Versioning: Have you tried saving your documents to Office Live Workspaces? That way you’ll get server side versioning. Check-out a demo at: ask.officelive.com/.../180.aspx Re: big big request: Please keep an eye on the Office 2010 Engineering blog at blogs.technet.com/office2010 … in the near future they’ll announce something that I think you’ll like. - Jonathan Bailor (MS)

re: Introducing Word 2010!

Jim — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:41:16 GMT

I think they need to make it easier to manage document versions in word. Am I the only one who ALWAYS creates a new file each time I save my document, by using Save As - i.e. filename v1.docx, filename v2.docx and so on up to filename v48.docx. The reason I do this is because it's way too easy to over-write stuff if you use the 'Save' function in word, and then later regret it. Also I still have memories of document corruption - editing one bit and saving the file, only to find out it totally messed up something elsewhere like the page formatting and I can't roll back. And here's one MEGA REQUEST PLEASE........ BIG BIG REQUEST...... PLEASE put something in Word so that when people like me, who have grown immune to the constant 'are you sure?' type prompts, accidentally do "Alt... F... C... Y" to close a document (this usually happens when I have numerous documents open, some of which I have edited but don't want to save the changes on because I have just been using them as a sort of editing workspace) and then think "Oh $'£&*!!!" because I just shut down my main file I have been working on and didn't save the changes, despite the "do you want to save changes" prompt, don't lose all our work. This is REALLY annoying. It is way too easy to close a file and automatically press "Y" without thinking, then to realise you have lost your work. Isn't there a way Word can just keep an temporary archive of the 10 last files or so you have closed down, in the state they were in when word closed, just in case you made a mistake and exited without saving the doc? Autosave doesn't do this.

re: Introducing Word 2010!

Jim Hanson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:30:22 GMT

question 1: in word 2003 and 2007, when you save as a web page, it degrades photos pretty significantly. the only way to avoid this is to use web options with vml. when you do that--the pictures won't show in firefox. is word 2010 doing something to deal with this? (for example, giving us the option to save the graphics in web pages as is, with no compression)? question 2: mail merge. can word 2010 sql mail merge handle long amounts of text? currently it cuts off text frequently at 256 characters (or something like that). very frustrating. question 3: mail merge of avery 5160 labels. can't get them to work in word 2007. some weird error. comment: i LOVE the customization of the ribbons, i LOVE that you can drag and drop large sections of the document (i've been waiting for that for 12 years now), and i LOVE the new editing at same time as others feature. very nice.

re: Introducing Word 2010!

PeteB — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:12:14 GMT

Master Documents and Numbering need to be fixed in Word 2010. There is so much information out there that highlights the failures of these 2 "features".

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Training Connection — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:54:51 GMT

Editing a word or PowerPoint file on a smartphone seems like a great idea but so much has changed given the ribbon. Possibly, we would then require an entirely new way to navigate its functions again. I'm all for it yet this may make us want bigger smart phones. I think the iPhone is as big as it should get. I think we work too much. How about we save it for proper size screens...

re: Introducing Word 2010!

wrdblog — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:19:50 GMT

Wes - Are you still seeing this? I think we just had a bit of a server issue over the weekend. - Jonathan Bailor (MS)

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Wes — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:32:26 GMT

Why are the screeshots hosted at another site (stunna42.members.winisp.net)? Please host them on technet or msdn. I just see a bunch of red x's. The blog is not nearly as interesting without the screenshots. Thanks.

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Stuart (Word PM) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:23:41 GMT

Francis - 1) The new textboxes are built on architecture similar to that used for the old textboxes (where they contain text, not the paragraph formatting model of frames. But many of the issues that you've identified are ones we are working to fix. 2) Drop Caps still use frames. We're looking at improvements in that are in a future release. 3) This is outside my area of knowledge. We tend to use standardized units but that doesn't seem like that would preclude hex numeric values. 4) Curious as to what you mean by something that can control character versus paragraph text effects. Have you looked into the style model of Word? As to improving borders, also something we hope to address in a future release. 5) Something we're considering for this release. Factors are performance for long documents and whether there is noticeable improvement for the typical user (particularly with the default fonts). 6) Me too! -Stuart

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Bob — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:32:13 GMT

in office 2003 it was simple to add a picture from scanner to doc you were working by clicking "insert"and highlighting scanner and was made live simple but newer virsions this was dropped and it made more work and unnesserary files you dint need. this was dropped in 2007. Is this facility being returned to office 2010