Microsoft Word 2010 Tutorials

Microsoft Word 2010 – Protected View

Protected View is one of the new security enhancements employed by applications in Office 2010. It addresses the problem of how to identify documents that pose a risk to you and what to do with them.

In the past, hackers have been able to embed their own code in Office binary files. If, for example, you opened a hacked Word document, the hacker’s code would then run and perform all sorts of ugly messiness to you and your colleagues. To protect against this kind of malicious attack, Microsoft introduced the new XML file format in Office 2007.

OpenType Ligatures in Microsoft Word 2010

Previous versions of Microsoft Word couldn’t do it, but you can now enable OpenType Ligatures in Word 2010. At least, they can be enabled in the Word 2010 Technical Preview, so if the functionality remains, you’ll have this facility in Word 2010 proper.