A year of innovation- and feedback-driven features in Microsoft Word

Hello, Microsoft 365 Insiders and Microsoft Word fans! Looking back on the year since I turned 40^Day anniversary (Happy 41st birthday, Ward!), We’re continually deepening and expanding our experience to power your document needs.

A Year of Innovation and Feedback-Driven Features in Microsoft Word

Last year we celebrated. Microsoft Word 40th Anniversary. We looked back on our incredible journey over several decades and took a peek into our future investments. Today we wanted to continue to share our journey as the story develops.

Shepherding in the AI ​​Era: Microsoft Word is a powerful place to organize and express your ideas, a place to create with confidence, read and learn, and develop your writing with others. This year’s recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLM) and the advent of Copilot have brought about fundamental changes in productivity tools across the industry. We’ve embraced these changes to grow Microsoft Word into the world’s most intelligent writing and reading experience. We’ll work closely with you, our customers, to continually incorporate your feedback and learn as we develop new features and experiences to improve your productivity. This is just the beginning, but here are some examples of new Copilot-based features you can try in Word today:

Use Draft with Copilot to create prompts to change a list into a paragraph of text

Make your words stand out with Word for the web. In addition to AI, we’ve continued to invest in Word for the web to make it an even better creation and consumption tool. To further enhance your creativity, we’ve introduced advanced formatting and styling tools that make it easy to create professional-looking documents. These enhancements make your articles more informative and visually appealing. Here’s a look at some of the new features available in the browser.

Preview linked webpages in a document

Better together: We know that collaboration is at the heart of modern workflows. Seamless collaboration not only increases productivity, but also ensures that the end result is a truly collaborative effort that reflects the best ideas of everyone involved. We’re committed to providing you with a consistent experience that lets you create, edit, and review content efficiently, no matter where you are, who you work with, or what device you use. Some of the key features we have provided for better collaboration are:

Accessibility Assistant in Word

Extensibility as custom drivers: We’re committed to giving Word developers the tools and features they need to build amazing experiences and support custom workflows.

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And of course, we couldn’t forget to mention The most popular blogs of last year, In direct response to your feedback to improve the way you paste content into Word: The default paste options in Word for Windows have been updated.

Your Feedback Makes Us Better

There’s a lot more, but we hope these improvements will inspire you to take advantage of these new features in your own writing. We value your ongoing support and insightful feedback, which inspires us to continue to innovate and improve our products as essential tools for millions of people around the world. Every suggestion and opinion you share plays a pivotal role in our journey towards excellence. Please keep visiting and help us make Word the best product you can use. one of these methods!

Thank you for being a part of our amazing history and helping shape a future where we write, read, and work together.

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