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Customizing Microsoft
Word ui
Erik Zander
XML-Developer at Studentlitteratur AB
Goal of this talk
Present our work
Give a small taste of what can be done
Show a super quick tutorial on how to do
Why customize?
It’s all about authors
We want to:
Get good quality word documents
Use a template with styles
Increase amount of useful information
Improve user experience
Use a tool authors aren’t afraid of
Fit the requirements of our word roundtrip
What we want to fix
What’s the problem
Low focus on styles
Easy to just use font and font size
Important tools “Hidden”
Assertions
Authors are impatient
Authors are experts in their field
Authors will never produce perfect documents
We have editors
How?
Xml based
Macro (power)
Supper quick tutorial where
to start
Office custom UI editor
Office custom UI editor cont.
Enhanced UI
Not the complete solution
Macros, how to begin
Macro cont.
How do we find errors?
Editors (the position, not software)
Validation through word roundtrip
Against Docbook
Against Schematron rules
Problems
Still possible to markup incorrectly
Mac compatibility
Still possible to all together ignore styles
Alternative solutions
More macros, asking why the user do what they do
Different editor
Questions?