In the new version of Word 2010, there is a new ‘integrated flavor of the Find feature’.
Scott Walker, Lead Program Manager, for Microsoft Word explains that ‘Rather than a modeless dialog box that jumps about on the screen to get out of the way, the basic Find experience now sits conveniently at the top of [...]
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MS Word 2010: Is the new Find re-design better or worse?
MS Office 2010, New Mini Translator feature
Microsoft have introduced a Mini Translator in Office 2010 that provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words.
How to extend the Ribbon in MS Office / Open XML SDK
The Fluent UI, or as it’s better known the Ribbon, was introduced in Office 2007. The Fluent UI technology, like the Open XML formats, is based on XML, which allows for a richer extensibility story for developers.
How to add Line Numbers to Word 2007 Documents
Microsoft Word can automatically count the lines in a document and display the appropriate number next to each line of text. This is useful if you need to refer to specific lines in a document, such as a legal contract. By default, Word numbers every line in a document (except those in tables, footnotes, endnotes, [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 – How OneNote will work with Shared Notebooks
How can you capture the benefits of brainstorms when your group is spread across locations and time zones?
How Word 2010 will be different than Word 2007
Microsoft has published an introduction to how Word 2010 will work. Interesting concepts here for technical writers and others who use Word for document creation.
MS Office Developer Guild on Facebook, How to Join
John R. Durant’s writes on his MSDN blog that “to make it easier for Microsoft Office developers to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas, John has setup the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook.”
Top 10 New Features in MS Office 2010
What do you want to see in Microsoft Office 2010? Arpan Shan, who has access to the beta versions at Microsoft, shares his favorite 10 Office 2010 features.
Tracking Business Processes from within MS Office
Israeli-based ActionBase have released an interesting application that provides Security Officers with “wave” collaborative software that addresses corporate governance, audit trails security. What interesting from a Microsoft Office perspective is that all of this can be done from within Microsoft Outlook and other Office applications.
How to Open and Repair a Damaged Word file
You can “force” Word to recover a document after it has crashed. Here’s how. Microsoft Word tries to automatically recover a damaged document if it detects a problem with the file.
How to Recover a Lost File in Word 2007 or Word 2003
When you write a Microsoft Word document it creates a temporary file (.tmp) that saves your file as you work. When Word crashes — even if you have NOT saved the file —the tmp file is still on your PC. Want to find where it is? Here’s how to do it.
