Couple Suggestions For Word

[The Doctor]

I have recently acquired the Office 12 Beta and am very pleased with the
changes. However, I would like to offer some suggestions. Firstly, a tabbed
interface for Word, like the Visual Studio has, for multiple documents would
make the navagation between different documents easier without cluttering the
taskbar with multiple instances of Word. Also, as it stands, the research
pane cannot be set to be shown by default, which is something I usually like
to have always at the side. It would also enhance the interface if this could
be set to hide like the panes like in Visual Studio.

For most manuscrips, essays, and research papers, a "First Line Indent" is
necessary. I think that a button or text box allowing the first line indent
to be changed should be incorporated into the paragraph area of the ribbon,
along with a button or drop down box to change the line spacing. A style like
this that shows up in the ribbon where Normal, No Spacing, etc. styles are
would be useful since this is the required format for many types of documents.

All in all, however, the new version of Office is a great improvement over
its predecessors. The interface is much more intuitive, and the new file
format is good and compact, and gets bonus points for being an open standard.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Do not use the Office Suggestions for comments about the beta - use the Send
a Smile tool specifically created for public beta users to give feedback
directly to the Office beta team.

Available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...E2-BC0F-4403-B09F-7A677D55F274&displaylang=en

You can use screen captures to show the development team exactly what you
are talking about and they read every suggestion that comes in.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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reading.

After furious head scratching, The Doctor asked:

| I have recently acquired the Office 12 Beta and am very pleased with
| the changes. However, I would like to offer some suggestions.
| Firstly, a tabbed interface for Word, like the Visual Studio has, for
| multiple documents would make the navagation between different
| documents easier without cluttering the taskbar with multiple
| instances of Word. Also, as it stands, the research pane cannot be
| set to be shown by default, which is something I usually like to have
| always at the side. It would also enhance the interface if this could
| be set to hide like the panes like in Visual Studio.
|
| For most manuscrips, essays, and research papers, a "First Line
| Indent" is necessary. I think that a button or text box allowing the
| first line indent to be changed should be incorporated into the
| paragraph area of the ribbon, along with a button or drop down box to
| change the line spacing. A style like this that shows up in the
| ribbon where Normal, No Spacing, etc. styles are would be useful
| since this is the required format for many types of documents.
|
| All in all, however, the new version of Office is a great improvement
| over its predecessors. The interface is much more intuitive, and the
| new file format is good and compact, and gets bonus points for being
| an open standard.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-3c00766b57db&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc