Friday, June 13, 2008

Microsoft Office Word

  • New style sheets (quick styles) and ability to switch easily among them.
  • Word count listed by default in the status bar. The word count dynamically updates as you type.
  • New contextual spell checker, signified by a wavy blue underline analogous to the traditional wavy red underline for misspellings and wavy green underline for grammar errors, sometimes catches incorrect usage of correctly spelled words, such as in "I think we will loose this battle".
  • Translation tool tip option available for English (U.S.), French (France), and Spanish (International Sort). When selected, hovering the mouse cursor over a word will display its translation in the particular language. Non-English versions have different sets of languages. Other languages can be added by using a separate multilingual pack.
  • Automated generation of citations and bibliographies according to defined style rules, including APA, Chicago, and MLA. Changing style updates all references automatically. Connect to web services to access online reference databases.
  • Rearchitected native mathematical equation support with TeX-like linear input/edit language or GUI interface. Also supports the Unicode Plain Text Encoding of Mathematics.
  • Preset gallery of cover pages with fields for Author, Title, Date, Abstract, etc. Cover pages follow the theme of the document (found under the Page Layout tab).
  • Document comparison engine updated to support moves, differences in tables, and also easy to follow tri-pane view of original document, new document, and differences.
  • Full screen reading layout that shows two pages at a time with maximal screen usage, plus a few critical tools for reviewing.
  • Document Inspector which strips Word documents of information such as author name and comments and other "metadata".
  • Building Blocks, which lets one save frequently used content, so that they are easily accessible for further use. Building blocks can have data mapped controls in them to allow for form building or structured document authoring.
  • The ability to save multiple versions of a document (which had existed since Word 97) has been removed.
  • Blog entries can be authored in Word itself and uploaded directly to a blog. Supported blogging sites include Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, SharePoint, Blogger, Community Server etc.

I will come back to more information about Microsoft Office like Outlook Support, Online Outlook Support and try to discuss about email support.

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