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.

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.

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!!!

I think Microsoft Word, and other Microsoft Office products (Excel, Power Point, Sway, Access, etc) should have a way to easily manage multiple languages!

For instance, it should be easier than saving as and creating a new document! It could have a language switcher in which I choose in what language I'm seeing the document at the moment, and create a new language version.

Another useful tool would be a way to manage the translation process, marking parts in not-translated, automatically translated (needing review), and fully translated. And it'd be very cool to easily view the original text so I can remember what was meant in the original language.

I think it's a necessary and a very cool new feature for Microsoft Office!!

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.

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!

When opening a Word document I'm presented with a "Welcome Back!" pop-up that lets me move to my last reading position. Though I've never wanted to use this feature, I have no problem with it.

Or rather--I would have no problem with it if it weren't input-blocking. I have to wait for the pop-up to disappear before I can type anything.

This may sound inconsequential, but I have some Word documents with reference material, and I'm frequently opening them for as quick a lookup as I can manage. As soon as I open them I hit Ctrl-F to search. My input is rejected, then I end up typing my search term into the document on accident. Then when I have control of the app again and can search, something funny has happened to focus, so search doesn't take me to the results it finds if I hit Enter. To make that work I have to click in the document's body again, then search again.

A quick Bing search on this term will find lots of other people who want to disable this feature. Word is a wonderful tool. Nothing about it has irked me like this glitch since... well, it's a cliche, but since Clippy.

Please either give us the option to disable this feature, or make it non-modal/non-blocking. I can't think of a reason why this potentially helpful notification should take over my session and prevent user input, albeit briefly.

You can have fields on several places: header, footer, body, text boxes etc. If you use CTRL + A and F9 to update all your fields, you will only update the fields in the body, not in header/footer and text boxes.

At the moment there is one work around: select 'file -> options -> display -> update fields before printing'. Next, whenever you do 'file -> export -> create PDF/XPS' and save it somewhere in a temporary directory, all fields (including header/footer and text boxes) are updated.

I was told this last step was not necessary and clicking 'print preview' would also do the job. I tested this in Word 2013 and Word 2016, but there seems to be a bug: fields in the header/footer are updates, but fields in the body and in text boxes are NOT updates.

Here is my 'idea': fix this bug or even better, create a separate button that updates all fields in the entire document.