September 2009 - Office 2010 Team Blog

Hi, my name is Maithili Dandige. I am a Program Manager at Microsoft working in the Office Security team. For this release, I’ve worked on several security and privacy-related features such as Office File Validation, Recommended Settings, improvements to Document Inspector, and Trusted Documents. I will be talking about all these in the upcoming months. Today, I am here to give you some insight to the Trusted Documents feature, a simple enhancement that improves the user experience when interacting...

My name is Nitie and I work in the Office Reliability Team. My team's goal is to improve Office reliability and your experience using our software. When thinking about how we can improve Office, we usually aim to make the product do exactly what you ask it to do, but in this case I want to highlight a new feature where we are doing something automatically in order to help protect you from accidentally losing your work. Have you ever closed Word after making a bunch of changes, and then accidently...

My name is Mirko Mandic and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. Today’s post is about the work we are doing in Office 2010 to improve the most frequently used Office command – Paste. Despite its usefulness, Paste doesn’t always work like users expect it to. Their feedback and usage data (Paste is the most frequently undone action) indicate that pasted content often does not look like what they expected. Changing the format of the freshly pasted content to look correct can be...