Users will therefore have to stick to Word 2008 and wait for a compatibility update or use Word 2011 and do without EndNote. VBA has returned in Word 2011, which will please cross-platform macro users, but the current version of EndNote is incompatible. It also meant that developers of Word add-ons which depended on VBA to work, such as the popular EndNote academic citation program, had to develop workarounds. Although not quite as critical for Word users as it is for Excel users, it still meant that macros in Word documents from Windows users wouldn't work.
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting was missing from Office 2008. It's no rival to Photoshop, but for simple, common editing tasks such as cropping, adjusting brightness or adding a border, it's very convenient. This 3D view looks gimmicky at first, but it makes it much easier to reorder complex, layered graphics and text using a simple and quick drag and drop.Īnother handy option is the ability to edit images within Word using the Format Picture Ribbon tab.
When using this View, clicking the new Dynamic Reordering button in the Home Ribbon tab presents all the graphical and text elements of your document in a 3D view. This allowed text and images to be arranged on a page in a more flexible, freeform way than in Word's other modes. Word has never been a very good page layout tool, even for basic designs, although this improved a little in Word 2008 with the Publishing Layout View.
