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?