Key new features in Microsoft Word

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Key new features in Microsoft Word

Easier formatting

Word offers great new ways to polish the formatting in your document.

Use the Styles and Formatting task pane to create, view, select, apply, and even clear formatting from text. You can also open the Reveal Formatting task pane to display text formatting attributes.




Select all text with similar formatting

Clear formatting from text

View, create, and apply formatting

You can also check formatting for consistency as you type. Word marks formatting inconsistencies with blue, wavy underlines.

In addition, you can control automatic corrections and pasting without having to click a toolbar button or open a dialog box. The AutoCorrect Options and Paste Options buttons appear directly in your document to help you fine-tune these tasks.

Collaborative document creation

Word has made it even easier for you and your colleagues to collaborate.

Use the improved Reviewing toolbar for document collaboration. Tracked changes are represented by clear, easy-to-read markup that doesn't obscure the original document or affect its layout. Markup is displayed while tracked changes are turned on, and also as the result of a comparison between two versions of a document.



Balloons show insertions or deletions, formatting changes, and comments

Word also has enhanced compare and merge features. In addition to integration with tracked changes, improvements include overall accuracy and robustness, the tracking of more types of changes, and the option to create a third document that contains the comparison.

Distributing a document for review is a complete, integrated process. When you send a document for review, Word automatically creates a review request form; enables and displays the reviewing tools when a reviewer receives the document; and prompts you to merge changes when the reviewed copy is returned. You can then use the reviewing tools to accept or reject the changes.

Speech and handwriting recognition

Use speech recognition to select menu, toolbar, dialog box, and task pane items by using your voice.



Use speech recognition by clicking buttons on the Language bar

Use handwriting recognition to enter text into a document. You can write by using a handwriting input device — such as a graphics tablet or a tablet-PC — or you can write using your mouse. You can have your natural handwriting converted to typed characters or leave text in handwritten form.