Jonathan Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager, worked with a team of problem-solvers to find a way for multiple users to efficiently collaborate on documents. The resulting tool, coauthoring, will be available in Office 2010.

Sam Radakovitz developed a feature called “sparklines” for Microsoft Office Excel 2010 that lets users transform large amounts of data into small, at-a-glance displays that fit into a single cell.

Microsoft Program Manager Michael Affronti helped develop two new features for Microsoft Office 2010, one that organizes e-mails by conversation and another that lets people use e-mail to connect socially with friends and professional contacts.

To enter the same: string, number, or formula into two or more cells select all the cells to populate, type the entry, and press Ctrl + Enter to autocopy the data into all of the selected cells.

To hide text in Word use the Hidden format.

Tt’s easy to forget that the hidden text is still present andd it may be sensitive or confidential. Best practice is copy and then remove the hidden text from the copy before you distribute the document.

To hide text:

1.Select the text to hide.
2.From the Format menu, choose Font.
3.Click the Font tab.
4.Check the Hidden option in the Effects section.

Uncheck the Hidden option to display hidden text. Or click Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar — it’s faster. Show/Hide is a toggle, so a second click rehides all the hidden text when you’re ready to put it out of sight.

Viewing the hidden text can be helpful, but it won’t remove it. To remove all hidden text in a document, :

1.From the Edit menu, click Replace. Or press [Ctrl]+H.
2.Click the Find What control.
3.Click More.
4.Click the Format button and choose Font .
5.Select the Hidden option in the Effects section.
6.Click OK.
7.Click Replace All
Word will delete any Hidden text

To change your mind, just press [Ctrl]+Z to retrieve the deleted text.
Note; Removing hidden text could displace other text,

If you have page break in your document that you cannot remove then this may be because Track changes is enabled. To turn this off esnure your screen is in Normal View, and double click the ‘TRK’ section in the status bar ,or simultaneously press: CTRl,, Shift and E

A useful keyboard shortcut for Microsoft programs like Word, Outlook, etc
When you cut, copy & paste text from a web page into an email message or a Word document, the associated formatting styles also get copied along with the text.
If you like to clear this formatting, just select the text again and press Ctrl key followed by space bar. The selection is converted into plain text without requiring any macros and It kills hyperlinks –and still the font and the font size remain
In Word 2007 hit the Office button in the top left corner. select “word options” (bottom right) select the “advanced” menu option in the left column there is a whole section “cut, copy, and paste” to make the changes – you can also change your default file location here

I believe Ctrl + Space actually restores the underlying paragraph formatting; it doesn’t change text to plain. That is what happens in Word 2002/2003 at least. For example, if you have a Heading 1 where you’ve changed it to red underlined italic for example (not in the styles but directly in the document) Ctrl + Space will reset to the heading 1 style so its bit more subtle than it seems.

There’s a simpler way to strip all formatting from Word text:

Select the text you want to strip of all its formatting.
Press Ctrl+Spacebar

This is an all or nothing solution–you can’t pick and choose the format you delete. Pressing Ctrl+Spacebar removes all the formats previously applied to the selected text.