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Daniel Snyder, Senior Development Lead on the Word team, discusses the MS-DOC binary file format. The presentation covers the overview of the format, a demonstration of text extraction, introduction of some important properties, locating different types of objects (pictures, shapes, Textboxes, and…

Ask any business guru, and they probably won’t tell you that the secret to being a superstar in your organisation isn’t about how hard you work, the results you produce, or your ability to network. It’s all about the fonts you use in your documents. Sure, anyone can write 50,000 words on the future…

There’s a new Microsoft Office add-in that lets you search for and download online images into Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint (either 2007 or 2010 versions). The images come from Veer, a site that offers an online collection of professional photography and illustrations for purchase.The…

Microsoft is full of oddities and little known answers to mysterious questions. The purpose of this series is to seek out those answers and offer them to you. Please comment with other questions you'd like to get answered! Watch other episodes of But Why?

Slideshare is a popular website that made sharing PowerPoint presentations (and PDFs) easy. Recently, the site added a new feature: support for Microsoft Word and Excel files. The move was likely due to Slideshare’s competition from sites like Scribd, DocStoc, Zoho Share, and others. If you’re…

If you’re a flickr user, there are three plugins that you need to know about: Flickr4Writer, Flickr4Outlook, and Flickr4Word. I had mentioned the Flickr4Writer plugin before when I blogged about some of my favorite plugins for Windows Live Writer - it helps you to insert flickr photos into your blog…

Thanks to some internal emails that were going around recently, we’ve discovered some great Microsoft Office ribbon tweaks, tips, and customizations. I’ll confess, I hadn’t known about all of these, but they certainly are handy:Hide the Ribbon: To hide the ribbon out of view leaving only the tab…

Have you ever heard of Microsoft Math? It’s a downloadable product for students which features a graphing calculator, formula & equations library, triangle solver, unit conversion tool, and more. Math is pretty affordable at only $14.95 (U.S.), but that’s not the free Math download I’m…

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft.  He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the  transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration,…

In this screencast, Pablo Fernicola demonstrates the technical preview of a new scientific publishing add-in for Word. The add-in enables reading and writing of XML-based documents in the archival format used by the National Library of Medicine.