Citations and Bibliography in Word 2016 is powerful but closed-off to how we manage files and data in cloud-based storage.

To keep track of references across machines on various domains (home, work, university networks), I need to:

1. Allow the source file in Word to automatically default to a specific location (ie OneDrive folder)


2. I store my citations in OneDrive and prefix them with the unique reference identifier in word


3. I share a OneDrive URL and paste this manually into the URL field of the source manager.

To automatically 'close the loop' on these manual steps, it would be useful to point Word at a OneDrive sources folder, store the files in the same location then 'point' each reference source in the Source Manager straight to the files. If each file is prefixed with the unique identifier then files can never be misplaced or sources lost.

Please open up this valuable feature of Word to make the most of OneDrive.

Is the Microsoft Word development team aware of the following bug in the Equation writing tool?

When trying to type the derivative of a function in the form "f'(x)=...", as soon as I type the equal sign "=", the "'(x)" will jump up into an exponent on the "f" character.

This bug also occurs when typing other math operators after the parentheses and other types of brackets. I tested it, and it occurred, typing +, -, *, and / instead of =. Also, the parentheses can be empty (you don't need to type "x" or anything in it. The quirk only occurs for operators typed from the keyboard, not ones if they are selected from the toolbar. I think this quirk has something to do with the apostrophe character, the bracket, and the mathematical operator typed in from the keyboard.

Immediately pressing undo (or "ctrl+z") will drop the characters back down where they belong.

This quirk also existed in the old Equation Editor that the Equation tool seems to have been built off of.

I'm using word 2016 on a windows 7 machine, using "German (Switzerland)" as my default proofing tool language.
As per default the double quotations marks in "German (Switzerland)" are set to the guillemets («»). This is not completely wrong, as we swiss people use the guillemets normally in books and some publications. However, in everyday communication, business and private, we use the slanted double quotes like this: „“ (alt+0132 / alt+0147)

In the language pack "German (Germany)" quotation marks are used how I'd like them. However, switching the proofing language to "German (Germany)" is not the desired solution, because grammar and spelling is slightly different.

Is there a way to customize smart quotes for specific language packs?

I am aware this is probably a minor issue for only a few people. However, I'd like to be able to write my papers correctly.

PS: By the way, the single quotes aren't correct in "German (Switzerland)". Instead of them to be - like expected - single guillemets (‹›), they are single quotes as used in "English (United States)": ‘’ (start quote: left single quotation mark (U+2018) and end quote: right single quotation mark (U+2019)) when they should be ‚‘ (start quote: single low-9 quotation mark (U+201A) and end quote: left single quotation mark (U+2018))

Word 2016 is an unstable application to use.

I've been using Office 2016 for 3 days now, thinking it would be an upgrade on 2013 and 2010... I was wrong - there are so many bugs in it, I can't believe MS charge so much for it and expect the users to be their Testers. At least Google Docs is free.

Styles have a variety of issues, attempting to update a style doesn't work (the text used as the update source is instead changed to match the style to be updated.)
Styles behave erratically and unpredictably.
Navigation around documents is all over the place - literally!
- Pressing the backspace key on some pages takes me to the 2nd last page of a document for no apparent reason.
- Pressing the up arrow from one page doesn't move the field of view to the previous page, so when you start typing you're actually overwriting text on another page.
- Random shortcuts are missing or have been removed
- the right-click Font properties no longer exists.
- sometimes the application will automatically start itself after closing it.
- sometimes a different office application will start after closing Word.

I've encountered too many other annoyances and bugs to remember.

Ahhhhhh!

Don't get me started on Visio!

Product line needs to be renamed to MS Joke 2016, or MS Joke Online.

Do you guys actually QA your products any more?

Sometimes I read or write documents that have many tables and figures placed at the end of the document. While placing some or all of the figures (charts, photos, schematics, and sketches) and tables at the end of the document can make the document "cleaner", it definitely puts the burden on the reader to scroll up and down the document.
While the functionality to open a second (or multiple) window allows the user to separately scroll through the figures and tables on a second monitor, a second monitor is not always available (ex. laptop) or screen space is limited. Alternatively, the user can click on reference links, if available, but that only takes the user to the figure or table but does not offer a way to return to the exact spot in the text that was last read. Much scrolling is still required.

My idea is that a figure/table quickview be added to the functionality of Word 2013. In essence, as a user hoovers the mouse over a figure or table reference (a figure or table reference is required), a temporary window pops up that gives a "quickview" of the figure or table. The figure or table's caption should also be in the quickview so that the reader can validate that the figure reference has directed he/she to the correct figure based on its caption. The quickview window should be sized according to the size of the figure and should not be full screen so that the user can easily click on the main document window, thus closing the quickview. This should be extremely seemless and not require the traditional open, minimize/maximize, and close buttons.

This idea would make reference much more "live" and immediately useful to the reader. Of course, such pop-ups could be annoying to the viewer or creator/editor of the document, especially if the creator placed the figures and tables within the body of the text, so make sure to include an enable/disable switch in File > Options > Advanced Options. If this functionality is well received, consider putting an enable/disable button for it in the ribbon or in a ribbon dropdown or include it as a new keyboard shortcut.

If you agree please vote in favor. Thanks!

Up to Office 2010, at least, endnotes in multiple columns came after the text (end of section or end of document) with no column justification either for the text or the notes. In this way the endnotes started midway in the column wherever the text ended and extended as far as needed.
Office 2016 justifies the text (so that text columns are even: they reach the same length down the page) and then adds the references starting a new (left) column (like a new section) and justifying them so that the whole text columns (including endnotes) are even.
This (new) style is fine but in some cases some authors need to choose one way or the other and this is impossible in Office 2016.

Then, my request is:
In the 'Footnotes and endnotes' configuration menu of the 'Footnotes' group in 'References' menu add an option to choose the style: Text Columns vertically Justified (as currently) with Endnotes starting a new column OR Text Columns Top ragged (as in Office 2010) with endnotes following

Allow compare documents to be run directly from the document recovery window. When the document recovery window comes up there are often multiple versions of the same document [Original], [Recovered], [Autosaved]. To know which document actually has the newest information, or whether perhaps the newest Recovered one lost information, I always use "Compare Documents" on these files first. Please make compare documents available right from the Document Recovery window, perhaps with check boxes for selecting two at a time to compare. This would help make the save/close/delete choice more informed and prevent wrong guesses from deleting the document that actually has newer edits. I hear about wrong documents being deleted by people who do not use the compare documents feature.Sometimes nothing actually changed, and other times a few random critical words were changed scattered throughout a long document that are hard to see by manually opening and looking at the documents.I've also found that a newer date doesn't always mean that it is the document with the newer or more important edits.