Did you know that Microsoft Word is banned in the US? I was surprised when I first read the title but it is indeed true and an East Texas District Court Judge was the one who ordered Microsoft to stop selling or importing  to the United States any Microsoft Word products that has the ability to open .xml, .docx or .docm files (these are basically XML files) which contain custom XMI.

This decision is based on the results of a complaint filed by i4i which is based in Toronto on alleging that Microsoft violated its 1998 patent (Number 5,787,449) on …read more

Here’s a tip that I’m sure will come in handy for many of you that work on document newsletters and brochures and are using Microsoft Word to accomplish those tasks. Sometimes while creating a document, you may need to get an idea for how text is going to flow around in the design, but you don’t have the final copy written yet for the document.

Many people are probably familiar with using Lorem ipsum text to place some dummy text into a document, but did you know that Microsoft Word has a built in function to generate any amount of text …read more

Microsoft Word is one of those applications that we’ve probably all used at some point in our lives. If you’re in the business world, odds are you’re probably using it on an almost daily basis. Being in business, having a way to get more work done in either the same or less amount of time is an underlying goals many of us probably shoot for in our work. That leads us to the question then.

Are you being as efficient at using Microsoft Word as you can be? Do you know many of the keyboard shortcuts you can take advantage …read more

Not sure if you’ve noticed it or not, but Outlook isn’t the most reliable engine for rendering accurate HTML display in your emails. Microsoft Outlook uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine to both create and display HTML in your emails. It’s for this reason that many people believe that Outlook is seriously broken and they’ve started a campaign to fix it.

If you’ve ever done any web development, you’ve probably realized that HTML that’s created by Microsoft Word and the old Microsoft Frontpage application was loaded with a lot of junk.
The folks behind fixoutlook.org are hoping that Microsoft will take the …read more