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Word 2016 New Features
- Convert PDFs to Editable Word Documents - You can now open a PDF file in Word and convert it to a fully-editable Word document.
- Reply to Comments - You can now
reply to a comment in a Word document by clicking its Reply
button.
- Insert online pictures & videos - It's now
possible to add
pictures directly from online photo and video sites without having to save
them to your computer first.
- Collapsible headings - When you format a
document using Word's heading styles, you can now collapse the
headings to hide parts of a document that you don't want to focus
on.
- Read Mode - Word's new Read Mode
(View tab) automatically fits the page to your device and enables
you to scroll horizontally through a document.
- Simple Markup View - The new Simple Markup view
shows indicators appear where markup was made. You can then click an
indicator to view the markup in the document.
- Design Tab - Themes, document formatting & page
background options are now located together on the Design tab.
- Alignment guides - Alignment guides are
horizontal and vertical green lines that now appear whenever you
move an object (e.g., image, chart, diagrams, etc.) on the page to
help you line objects in a Word document.
- Tell me what you want to do - When you enter a word or
phrase (e.g., insert picture) in the Tell
me what you want to do text box, a drop-down list with
related commands displays for quick access.
- Smart Lookup - When you right-click a word or phrase
and choose Smart Lookup, a list of definitions, Wiki articles, and top search results
from the web appears on the Insights pane.
- Ink Equations - The Ink Equation
command enables you to insert an equation by writing it.
- Share Button - Clicking the
Share button enables
you to quickly save a file to your OneDrive or to a SharePoint site
or email a file as an attachment.
