Introducing Word 2013

re: Introducing Word 2013

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re: Introducing Word 2013

Violet Weed — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:13:48 GMT

Why would think eliminating serif founts is a good thing? You don't know enough about readability then. You need to study up on founts.

re: Introducing Word 2013

Violet Weed — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:11:10 GMT

Why can't I save as... a pdf file? Why would you remove that feature? It seems rather asinine. Or is there something wrong with my install? Please let me know before I start telling my customers to go with openoffice. I'm now really worried to see what you have done to autonumbering, since you never did fix it.

As for the line spacing, as a Master Typographer (and type fount designer), yes, I agree the 1.15 spacing was never good for romance language reading (saccadically speaking). Of course tighter line spacing is more important with sans serif founts than with serif founts, but particularly with shorter x-heights and more vertical stress, pendantically speaking, :). Anyway WTF did you do with save as pdf? I don't care about opening pdfs, only saving as them. Did you lose a lawsuit with adobe? That would seem logical.

re: Introducing Word 2013

AnthonyHall — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:46:58 GMT

The Word 2013 click to run is much better than 2010 was. However I've encountered one problem that I guess is related to click to run. I have existing global templates for Word that create and run batch files to run external programs like java. Although the global templates work much better than they did with 2010, the batch files don't work. I get the error 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file. This seems to be because Word does not inherit the system path: if I do environ("path") in VBA I get C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\Root\Client which is not much use.

Is there a work around for this?

Thanks

re: Introducing Word 2013

Ann Shaffer — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:35:08 GMT

Can you please explain why the default line spacing for the Normal style is 1.08 (instead of 1.15 in Word 2010). Also, I see that 1.15 is still an option on the Line and Paragraph Spacing menu, but I would expect that to be 1.08, to match the new default line spacing. Will this be different in the final version? Thanks a lot.

re: Introducing Word 2013

Askarian — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:46:18 GMT

What's wrong with the body font in Word 2013? Looks weird.

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J. E. Neuburger — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:19:19 GMT

The new release shows great work and I am looking forward to using it. I would suggest/ask that you include a way to darken the background/area surrounding a document so, that the document stands apart a little more distinctly. This I would ask od all of the new Office programs. Thank you for considering this request.

re: Introducing Word 2013

dainer perez — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:03:14 GMT

cada dia mejoran

re: Introducing Word 2013

Joe Steinhardt — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:08:14 GMT

Excellent work guys!

10 things I love (in no particular order):

1. Fluid transitions, zoom, scroll, showing/hiding panels;

2. Insert rows/columns buttons on tables;

3. New button icon designs;

4. New appearance of comments, particularly when there are a lot of them;

5. New comment features - Reply to comment and Mark comment as done;

6. "Pick up where you left off";

7. You've eliminated serif fonts from your default styles;

8. Open PDFs - brilliant;

9. Improved tips, like the one on the Format Painter. It taught me some shortcuts I never knew;

10. All the touch stuff.

9 things I really dislike (most important at the top)

1. I keep hoping that an update will allow us to insert comments into footnotes. This causes real problems in my company. Why isn't this possible?

2. Browsing to open a file is now 2 clicks away, even when I use Ctrl + O. This is awful, and making such a basic action require more clicks is surely wrong. Unless I've missed some easier way;

3. If I change a setting on the "Advanced" Find dialog, such as turning on Case Sensitive, THEN use the navigation pane find, it applies that setting, without a way to reset it. So I'm regularly thinking, why didn't it find the text??? Oh, right, that setting is left on from an earlier search I did.

4. Why has Office started calling itself "we"? "We made 19 replacements". Who's we? Microsoft? Me and office? Does office think it's people? This seems very very strange to me.

5. I don't see the logic in the white Ribbon. Though I think it looks pretty, this is not making it easier for me to focus on content. On the contrary, it makes it harder to focus, because there's less distinction between content and buttons. I don't want shading and reflection effects, just some difference in colour;

6. I regularly use Word to edit very large XML files, because of it's navigation features, find/replace tools, and customizability, and I often get the msgbox that says "There are too many spelling errors..." That's always annoying, and I think it should be a less intrusive notification.

7. Given that the recent documents list is scrollable, why is the list limited to 50? If I wanted 100, why can't I have that?

8. Why does Backstage default to the Info tab? Surely the Open tab is VASTLY more used.

9. Where's the exit button gone? How do I close all files at once without using the taskbar?

2 suggestions:

1. I'd really like to be able to do a search with the Find dialog across all open documents.

2. I think you should put "Previous Edit" on the Ribbon, because it's such a cool feature, that hardly anyone knows about.

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

re: Introducing Word 2013

FremyCompany — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:31:31 GMT

Did you improve equation/figure numbering? With some deep Word knowledge, both are possible to achieve but it should probably be made easier than it is in Office 2010.