Hello, Microsoft Community,

I'm a student and a couple of times we write coursework, diploma and so on. Of course we use Microsoft Word for it. And you know, one of the requirements of this type of work is pagination which is usually used in the footer of pages.
But there are 2 typical additional requirements for it:
1)Title page (first page) shouldn't have pagination (number 1). It's not difficult, every student can find the option "Different first page". Thanks a lot for it.
2)We usually have 1-2 pages with description of the task for diploma, coursework which also should't be numbered. And to be honest, I've spent pretty a lot of time to solve this part. Even when I found this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBf9HPP1hQE (thanks to author), I didn't catch the idea immediately. And if you read the comments to the video, you can see that I'm not alone with this problem. I don't think that it is the best solution which can be applied to this problem.

And you know, I spoke with many students and nobody knows how to solve this problem easily. So my suggestion is to make some user-friendly checkbox called "Different this page". If you have the better idea, as you wish. But I think the problem exists and you should to improve it.

I'm really sorry if solution already exists and I just haven't found it, but I can say 100% that this solution isn't popular.

Thank you very much.

APA published its 7th edition last year. However, the reference functionality, as well as the APA template on your website, have not been modified to correspond to the new changes. There are numerous students in universities across this country and around the world who rely on Word's reference functionality to keep track of references when conducting necessary research aimed at helping humanity. As numerous individuals have reported this, it is imperative the Microsoft address this issue as soon as possible.

It appears the report rate for this topic is minimal, but there are hundreds of thousands of students who need the functionality to continue working on their dissertations and research studies.

The Microsoft organization understands numerous universities and institutes of higher learning have purchased Office 356 for their students to use. As such, the organization has a responsibility to those students, and their inaction in addressing this issue is not acceptable.

I look forward to a response concerning the issues outlined above and when we can expect to see updated reference functionalities as well as updated APA 7th templates to be available for student use.

Respectfully submitted,

A concerned student.

Desperately need APA 7th edition style references for college. Please change it from 6th edition style ASAP.

I really appreciated using the APA 6th edition style references for my papers. It saves sooo much time and nit picking entries for many references from so many different sources.

Now that APA has made the 7th edition, all the professors want APA 7th edition reference pages.

It is an unbelievable hassle to redo every reference. I have to keep referring to the APA website to figure out what little changes need to be made here and there. It is such a waste of precious time when Microsoft Office 365 (that I pay for) could update the reference section.

Please do it sooner, rather than later.
Thousands of students will be very grateful!!

This is with regard to the “Comments” feature which is greatly used for communicating feedback or suggestion on a selected content of a document. People in my organisation are coming up with various tools to manually record the severity of comments made in a document by a reviewer. The level of errors and severity of comments form a KPI for originators of the documents, but there lies an ambiguity (as well as subjectivity) in classifying the review comments under various degrees like minor, medium, moderate and major. Ideally the reviewer should be given a choice at the time of posting a comment to assign the degree to that comment. This should avoid ambiguity in analysing the comments at a later date by originators/auditors/reviewers etc. Quite noteworthy, it will also eliminate the time and effort needed in manually classifying the spate of comments under various degrees retrospectively. In addition, this new feature should also allow the document originators to prioritise actions in addressing the review comments. I am sure there are numerous users like me who have felt a need of such a feature; if not, they may like the new feature once provided. It will be much useful if an associated feature for summarising the comments severity report for a selected part or whole of the document may also be provided under the Review ribbon. Thank you!