Better collaboration with Word’s Track Changes
When you circulate documents among colleagues for review and comment, there's nothing more practical and useful than the ability to track changes. Microsoft Word includes powerful tools for recording, accepting and rejecting changes, appending comments, comparing documents, and merging documents. But, if you're like most Word users, you know little about how this set of features can help you.
The old Notepad trick: Using Notepad to strip unwanted formatting
Notepad has long been used to strip away Microsoft Word formatting from text that is pasted into a WYSIWYG editor, but did you know it's also a handy tool for stripping Web formatting out of text that is pasted into a Word document?
Microsoft, i4i square off in appeals hearing over Word
A federal appeals court today heard arguments in a patent infringement case involving Word that required Microsoft to pay nearly $300 million in damages and barred the company from selling the software starting Oct. 10.
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