Introducing the Office Next Blog

The next version of Office is here!

| Office Developer Blog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:52:57 GMT

A week ago today, at a press event in San Francisco, Steve Ballmer unveiled the new Office and announced a public Customer Preview.

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G.O.Tuhls — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:14:19 GMT

Ok, it's just a preview.

But I'm disappointed about the "spartanic" outfit. The symbols in the ribbons suggest a retro to the early 90th.

Positiv I noticed the integration of most dialogs to the pane area; but dialogs without a live preview still exist. I hoped that these relics would have been overcome in the new version - so I hope along for the final.

What a week!

Office Next — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:09:15 GMT

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of joining members of the media from around the world and several customers to unveil the new Office . Watching people’s first reactions to our new products and services is one of the best parts of my job. The

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NextHop — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:36:10 GMT

Yesterday, at a press event in San Francisco, Steve Ballmer unveiled the new Office and announced a public

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Gray Knowlton — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:01:58 GMT

Giorgio, Each product team will update its blog with specifics for the new version. Stay tuned to the Access team blog and they will share what's new in their product!

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Gray Knowlton — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:29:47 GMT

Joe, Thank you for the feedback on footnote commenting. The Word team (over on the Word blog) can help you as well.

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Gray Knowlton — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:26:12 GMT

Sven, great to hear that you have the installation up and running! Yes, the Oulook Icon color has changed, we'll have some in depth commentary on this and other topics very soon. At this point the proofing tools for other languages are in development, stay tuned for more updates on releases for those.

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Sven Carstensen — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:06:50 GMT

Any chance to get a german language pack or at least a german spell checker for the Office preview?

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Sven Carstensen — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:04:38 GMT

Installation went smooth, no problems so far - but why did you change the Outlook icon color to blue from yellow?

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Joe Steinhardt — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:25:15 GMT

Just got the new Office 15 preview, and I love it so far, great work!

I really like the new style comments in Word, the way you can reply to comments, and mark as "Done", and the fact that you can now add comments using select and right-click.

But WHY can you still not add comments to footnotes? I am a developer for Shabash Ltd, and we write software that, among other things, automatically adds comments to text that needs correcting. We have to do really ugly and unsatisfactory workarounds for footnotes, because you can't add comments to footnotes, and it's THE most frustrating thing about Word for us. PLEASE can you improve this? Or let me know if there's a reason it can't be done?

Thanks!