Editors the world over are looking for a way to remove all timestamps from comments & track changes but not remove the comment & track changes author name. The timestamps are read-only, so cannot be changed with a macro, but can only be changed by going into the Word .zip file and running a Find & Replace. This could be a property that could be locked with a password at the document creator's discretion.

The QAT is nice since it is the only usable way of customizing the ribbon. But since you (dis)"improved" the QAT buttons by making them phatter to be "touch friendly" and PC UNFRIENDLY(!) it is less useful.
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Hiding "extra" buttons in a drop down reduces the usefulness of the QAT.
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Create a user option to display the QAT on 2 or more rows as required.

Hello Community,

Microsoft Word needs to update to 7th edition APA ASAP. We all pay an annual fee to have access to your services and such and expect that you will update accordingly to the standards as they are updated. APA 7th edition came out nearly a year from this post. Please update accordingly!!!!!!!!

When using spellchecks in Office, the spellcheck ignores single letters, which can often leave spelling mistakes.
For example "n" is not highlighted when typing on/in/no
as with all other letter s t u v w, would not normally be used singularly, the spellcheck/grammar check do not recognise them as incorrect.
It needs to flag/highlight where singular letters are not a/i....

With the release of the 7th Edition of the APA Publication manual, this style needs to be reflected in Word for use in references, citations, and the reference list as well as a document template.

The current configuration only allows a local path or a server share. In a cloud first world, this is an outdated method.

There should be a function to publish workgroup and organization templates to users from an Office 365 cloud location. This function should allow the Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) on the desktop AND the Office applications online to both have access to the Organization's templates. Especially with users more distant now due to COVID this functionality is needed.

I am in school and my professor expects my paper in APA Seventh Edition. Word is offering APA 6th Edition. Can I find the upgrade to place in my Word program?

When in a "Restrict Editing" mode, how do I turn on Spellcheck for my editable fields

APA 7th Edition required now for university, can this be updated in MS Word?

Mail merge is in desperate need of an upgrade. I would ideally like to see the following features added in the near future.

1. Multiple recipients support including CC and BCC.


2. Subject line can contain merge fields


3. Support for office files or PDFs to be merged and sent to the recipient(s) as attachments.


4. Further integration with OneDrive and SharePoint.


5. If there are multiple email in Outlook, the ability to choose when merging which email address the emails are sent from.

I enjoy the extensive color pallet for both the text and highlighting options offered in Excel, and the same pallet is offered for text written in Word.
I am disappointed by the limited highlighting shades. May I have more highlighting color options for Word? It would be wonderful to have the same, extensive pallet for highlighting as for the text.

Currently, Word 365 and Word 2019 both have Grammar Style: APA 6th Edition. This would be a tremendous help to those who write a lot of papers.

Hello dear Microsoft, I'm really enjoying using Dictate function in Office 365 App. It's a wonderful feature and I'm using it on daily basis. Thank you for this feature. As I’m using it every day I noticed some imperfection in this feature.
Therefore I would like to suggest to add ability to edit/extend language dictionary for this feature especially for punctuation mark as it so limited https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dictate-your-documents-in-word-3876e05f-3fcc-418f-b8ab-db7ce0d11d3c?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

Thank you for taking it into consideration

Preference needed to adjust time dictation is available before shutting off. Also, keyboard keystroke combination or single key needed to reactivate dictation mode in Word and elsewhere.

Please offer the Beeline Reader format on MS Word. Having this available on Word would be a great help for students and professionals who have to read long documents on a daily basis. Beeline also really helps people with disabilities like dyslexia that make reading very difficult.

If the United Nations and Stanford have seen fit to honor Beeline, perhaps it's time for MS to make this available in Word? In the meantime, I'll just keep uploading my Word docs to Google Docs, where I can read them in BeeLine format...wish I could do it in Word though!

It would be great if you could prevent the color of tracking changes in Word from changing automatically.

I see that Word now has a transcription function. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/transcribe-your-recordings-7fc2efec-245e-45f0-b053-2a97531ecf57.
But it is available only on Word for the web. It would be good to have it included in my desktop version.