Reading in Word 2013

re: Reading in the new Word

Michelle Lisse — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:09:05 GMT

Hi there -- I'm one of the Microsoft employees that worked on the feature.

You can turn off the feature to enter reading mode by hitting one checkbox. Just go to File -> Options -> Open e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view (second from the bottom) and uncheck the box. Now, when you open from Outlook, it will go to whatever view you were using last time you closed Word.

re: Reading in the new Word

dlbleuel — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:39:01 GMT

When opening an attachment from Outlook - I'd like to skip Reading Mode altogether. Is that still possible?

re: Reading in the new Word

MaSala — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:26:59 GMT

Wow,

I am deeply impressed with the all-new Reading mode - it's a really useful feature now. And I think you guys achieved that by confronting the topic with exactly the best approach you can take: First, ask yourself what the user needs. Consult theory, watch your users, design, usability-/UX-test, modify. Reiterate.

Although it was probably the simplest to implement, the "paper layout" really does it for me. As you ladies point out, it is about orientation in a document. It is also about judging the layout when revising or checking a "release candidate" document. Having the possibility to annotate or highlight sections are useful for that, too.

Way to go!

Greetings from Germany,

Martin

re: Reading in the new Word

orangeguru — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:02:50 GMT

Font Rendering in the new Office is terrible (on my W7 Machine). When I open the same Document in WordPad the Fonts are cleaner and sharper than the supposedly advanced Word Reading Mode.

re: Reading in the new Word

Dwight Waller — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:19:12 GMT

Hey so far looks like a winner,thaks

re: Reading in the new Word

Word Team — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:21:23 GMT

Hi there,

Thanks so much for taking the time to try out the customer preview and share your thoughts! If you are interested in the new PDF Reflow feature and how the conversion is done, take a look at the post that we just published on that topic:

blogs.office.com/.../unlock-pdfs-with-the-new-word.aspx

-Theresa

Program Manager

Microsoft Word

re: Reading in the New Word

Amir[MSFT] — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:25:31 GMT

Hi,

My name is Amir and I am the PM who is working on the resume reading feature. Here is the answer to your question:

The auto save should not cause any problem since none of the information about users’ reading position is stored inside the document (the file). Therefore it wouldn’t trigger a changed flag in CMS systems.

re: Reading in the New Word

Kwang-soo Park — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:50:01 GMT

Great work!

re: Reading in the New Word

ptsefton — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:36:13 GMT

If paper is used less then where are people reading things? The web!

I've been trying to talk to MS about this for years. Can you please, please, please fix HTML export so that people can choose to output clean HTML5? More thoughts here: ptsefton.com/.../reading-in-the-new-word-really.htm

re: Reading in the New Word

Ed McConnell — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:48:58 GMT

Great work! I love the new layout.