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June 19, 2022

WIRED: How to Use Microsoft Word for Free

WIRED: How to Use Microsoft Word for Free. “WHEN IT COMES to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it’s a résumé or an essay, it’s most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized default file format used by Word, and whomever you’re working with probably wants one in return. There’s just one problem—you need to pay a one-time fee or a recurring subscription to use Microsoft Word as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription … or do you?”

September 5, 2021

Hackaday: Making Web Pages With Word?

Hackaday: Making Web Pages With Word?. “There are, of course, other ways of generating web pages from your technical documentation — there is the Markdown / Pandoc combination, various Wiki solutions, or GitHub Pages, for example. If you’re Python-focused, there’s always the Jupyter Notebooks / JupyterLab approach which we wrote about in 2019. But these presume the source documents are in a certain format. If you have years of existing documentation in Word, or you prefer (or are required) to use Word, [Jim Yuill]’s WWN tool might be of interest.”

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March 25, 2021

Pocketnow: Microsoft’s new tool turns Word files into PowerPoint presentation using AI

Pocketnow: Microsoft’s new tool turns Word files into PowerPoint presentation using AI. “Microsoft has announced a new feature that uses AI to turn Word files into a PowerPoint presentation. Called Export to PowerPoint presentation, the feature has started to roll out for Word and PowerPoint on the web, and users with an Office 365 subscription can now access it. All you have to do is open a Word file on the web, hit the Export button on the left sidebar, then tap on the Export to PowerPoint presentation, and you’re good to go.” Apparently this feature only supports text-based Word files, so we’re still at step one, but what a great start.

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August 27, 2020

The Next Web: How to use Microsoft Word’s new ‘Transcribe’ tool

The Next Web: How to use Microsoft Word’s new ‘Transcribe’ tool. “Microsoft today announced a new feature for Word: a transcription tool that allows you to get spoken words into your document without you having to type all of them. We’ll show you how to use it.”

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May 14, 2020

TechRadar: Forget Google Docs – Microsoft Word’s new re-writing feature is a game-changer

TechRadar: Forget Google Docs – Microsoft Word’s new re-writing feature is a game-changer. “Smart Compose is a tool for Google Docs that predicts which words and phrases you’ll type and offers to finish them off for you. It’s handy, and can be a real time-saver as it ‘learns’ your writing habits, but Microsoft has now gone one better with a feature for Microsoft Word that can re-write whole sentences for you.”

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November 8, 2018

The Verge: Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents

The Verge: Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents. “Microsoft is starting to test a new to-do feature in Word today. The software maker found that a lot of people leave notes in their Word documents as placeholders to add more text, images, or charts. Microsoft is now making these notes a lot more powerful with a to-do feature that automatically tracks when you’ve left these little notes for yourself or others.”

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November 3, 2017

eWeek: Microsoft Uses AI to Tighten Word’s Translation Tool in Office Update

eWeek: Microsoft Uses AI to Tighten Word’s Translation Tool in Office Update. “Thanks to Microsoft’s accelerated software release cadence, Word now features an improved built-in translation tool that can help users make sense out of documents from their overseas colleagues.”

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October 1, 2016

Rondina Muncy: Automatically Numbering Your Genealogy in Microsoft Word

Genealogists, check this out. Rondina Muncy sent me a heads-up about her extensive (27 pages!) free ebook, Automatically Numbering Your Genealogy in Microsoft Word. This is a PDF file, I think, and can be downloaded.

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July 27, 2016

Microsoft Word Gets a Research Feature

Microsoft Word has gotten an interesting research feature. “Researcher uses Microsoft’s Bing Knowledge Graph to query content from the internet and then pull it straight into Word. Microsoft has a curated list of trusted sources and reference materials which the company plans to expand upon over time. If you add source material, it will even automatically create the citation in your bibliography as part of your research paper.”

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February 15, 2016

Tools for Recovering Corrupted Word Documents

From BetaNews, and I hope you never need it: Five tools for recovering corrupted Word documents.

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WIRED: How to Use Microsoft Word for Free

Hackaday: Making Web Pages With Word?

Pocketnow: Microsoft’s new tool turns Word files into PowerPoint presentation using AI

The Next Web: How to use Microsoft Word’s new ‘Transcribe’ tool

TechRadar: Forget Google Docs – Microsoft Word’s new re-writing feature is a game-changer

The Verge: Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents

eWeek: Microsoft Uses AI to Tighten Word’s Translation Tool in Office Update

Rondina Muncy: Automatically Numbering Your Genealogy in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word Gets a Research Feature

Tools for Recovering Corrupted Word Documents

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