The one thing that harms my productivity and, honestly, my patience / endurance is the way functions are located in different ribbons. Especially if I want to fix formatting, or just format the document on-the-fly while I am writing, my flow is disturbed by the need to open (click) on a ribbon to make a certain function available.

For example, i edit text, change the style and require to fix fast the the horizontal and vertical alignment of the content of the current cell. Back to the first ribbon to change the style of the just written line to a header. right click on paragraph to change follow rules for text written after the header. Click on Ribbon to add reference (e.g. Endnote). etc.

Half of the clicks needed of the above example are wasted on navigating the content of the ribbons.

Here, I ask to introduce a floating toolbar that is always in front of the Window if Word is active.

Features required:
- Drag & drop of functions (and individual styles, colours, etc.) from the ribbons into the floating toolbar
- every toolbar position has a fixed keyboard shortcut. So the shortcut depends on the position the functions was dropped at, something like "Ctrl+Space+[A-Z]" (maybe only letters that are easily accessible with the index fingers while having thumb.pinky on ctrl and space, such as ERFGVB and YUHJNM)
- the floating toolbar should be changeable in width and height.
- it should be able to position the floating toolbar freely
- word should remember the floating toolbar based on the word document
- either empty floating toolbar or floating toolbar of the last document opened, if the new document does not has a floating toolbar saved

This would highly improve productivity and allows people to be focus on the content / text, and minimises the need to learn all available shortcuts, or the time wasted on navigating the ribbons.

The ink editor would be more useful if it had the ability to add punctuation marks- like adding a comma where there should be one.

Also, as far as spelling goes- for those words that the spelling checker doesn't catch, it would be nice to be able to delete or add single letters rather than whole words.

I will probably not be using this feature as it is; it seems like it is more trouble than it's worth right now and doesn't have the features I need. However, if this feature is expanded it would make my life (as well as the lives of many teachers) much easier.

I am an author and I have used Word for all of my 30 plus books, but one feature in word is missing. I would like to have the typing position “frozen in the middle of the screen” or set on the middle of the screen. That way, as I write the pages will scroll up line by line, behind my work. That would be different from the cursor moving down. Can there be a setting for this? NOT centering the page and stuff like that. I want the cursor to move along as I type from left to right starting at the left-hand margin and when I press return have the line I just type scroll UP so that I am typing in the middle (horizontally) of the screen at all times. As it is now, the page is stationary until the cursor reaches the last line on the page then it starts scrolling up as I add new lines. I know other word processing programs like Scrivener does allow the typing position to remain constant. I find it very annoying to always type at the bottom of the screen, and be constantly shifting my eyes lower and lower until I move the document up again.
Please! How do I get word to do this?

Upon creating a table that has a header row and another 'header row' that is located in the middle of the table, it is not possible for the header row in the middle of the table to repeat when the table extends onto a new page. (This feature currently only works with the header that is the very first row of the table)

If the 'header row' in the middle of the table is also placed as the first row in the table, then a "Skip First Header Row" feature would be able to hide that first row but enable it to repeat on each subsequent page.

This feature has been seen in MS Word plugins but is not compatible with Word itself, causing that option from the plugin to fail.

Inline MathType equations appear raised above the baseline in Microsoft Word.
Issue: (from website of MathType company)
Once a saved file that contains a MathType equation at the end of a line has been re-opened in Microsoft Word, the Character Spacing Position properties will have been set to "Lowered" thus causing the baseline to shift downward relative to the surrounding text. This occurs when saving the file as a .docx format (does not occur on files saved as .doc format).

Many users and I are using MathType and encounter the above problem. It is really inconvenient for people working with mathematics. So, please fix this error. Thank you very much.

I'm a professional editor, and live word count is a must-have feature. I still use Word 2011 because it has live word count and Word 2016 doesn't. I keep checking to see if this has been added back in, but it has not. I don't understand why Microsoft would have gotten rid of this feature. It's so frustrating that they got rid of a feature so important to writers, editors, and students!

I am also tired of people saying it's there. These people obviously don't know what live word count is. Word 2016 has word count. It does NOT have live word count. Which is to say if you click in the middle of 1,000-word document, for example, it will say at the bottom 534 out of 1,000 words. This is a necessity when you have a job where word count is so important.

PLEASE ADD THIS BACK IN!!!

Sometimes in a Word document containing several equations, after closing and re-opening Word, the equations have been randomly re-scaled. The proportions aren't off by more than a few percent, but it's noticeable. An example would be height & width of 97x101%, when of course the original was 100x100%. To be clear, this isn't with a specific version of WinWord, but it is specific to equations created MS Equation 3.0 and MathType -- IOW, equation objects. We've seen this happen with other objects too, primarily embedded Excel charts, so it does seem like it's Word causing the issue, and not Equation Editor, MathType, nor Excel or any other app.

Natural gestures is a GREAT start, but please continue to expand the capabilities of ink editor. As an attorney I work in word nearly all day long. Ever since Microsoft released the surface pro, I've prayed for the ability to edit word files using copyediting marks and the pen.

Anyone who does editing of large word documents knows there is a big difference between editing text using the keyboard and track changes and editing text with a pen. That is why a lot of people, like attorneys, book editors, authors, etc. still print out their draft documents, mark them up with an ink pen using copyediting marks, and then go back and type their edits into word. This is an incredibly inelegant and inefficient process many have used for decades. Entire law firms are run based on these processes.

If lawyers, editors and authors could simply mark up an electronic word document using copyediting marks and have those edits saved as tracked changes, you could positively impact and change entire industries of professionals who work with word.

If this capability was introduced, I would buy everyone who works for me a surface pro the very next day.

Thank you

Improving digital signatures, I believe that in the near future this will be a feature that is used much because the tendency is to stop using paper, so the use of alternative mechanisms such as digital signatures (certificates) or (biometrico as tablets wacom) will be one of the features that users will use daily.

Currently the functionality of digital signatures work well, however as a user think it could be improved by including more information regarding errors during the process of signing, suggestions on how to fix some errors in the firms, make more beautiful generally provide more elements tools for firms, even have their own tab with unique tools for firms, for example the possibility of signing with a wacom or surface windows, more information about certificates, mechanisms to enter fingerprint, tablet so there are many possibilities.

In the age of content creation with Word dominating the market, everyone can agree that character count is often more important than word count. And it's a pain in the neck having to click word count 500 times when you're writing just to keep checking the character count...

It begs the question - what are bloggers and hired writers using to write short- and medium-form content? Surely there are any number of use cases that require a large percentage of writers to use character count, such as myself and many others who've had this question, including proofreaders, people who create subtitles, etc...

Here is a counter showing how many blog posts are written worldwide per day based on historical trends: http://www.worldometers.info/blogs/

We can also look here: https://www.quora.com/How-many-blog-posts-are-written-every-day

As a very conservative estimate, if even 30% of those blog posts were written using Word and even 15% valued the character count feature, that would mean about 125,000 bloggers per day are missing out on what should be a very basic feature. That doesn't include anybody else, such as proofreaders and subtitlers mentioned above... That's just the blogger count.

The problem is, Microsoft has no incentive to update "convenient" or "nice-to-have" features because you dominate the market. Hope to see this implemented in the future. Thank you!