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Word 2010 Microsoft Word 2010 makes it easier to collaborate and to navigate through long documents. For more impact, new features focus on the polish of your finished document. With this new version, you can access the richness and familiarity of Word in your browser and on your mobile phone. In this article. Work in Word anywhere In Word 2010, you have the power and familiarity of Word everywhere you need it. You can view, navigate, and edit your Word documents from the browser and from your mobile phone without compromising your document's richness. Word Mobile 2010 for Windows Phone 7 If you have Windows Phone 7, you can use Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 to work with your files from anywhere—whether you’re at work, at home, or on the go.
Change the Font and Font Size as desired using the Home ribbon options, just as you would when working on text in English. Credit: Screenshot courtesy of Microsoft. To add Spelling and Language support for Arabic in Word, click the File menu, select Options and then click Language.
Word Mobile 2010 is part of Office Mobile and already on your Windows Phone 7 in the Office hub, so you don't need to download or install anything else to get started. You can use Word Mobile to view and edit documents stored on your phone, sent to you as email attachments, or hosted on a SharePoint 2010 site through SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010. When you edit a document via SharePoint Workspace Mobile, you can save your changes back to the SharePoint site when you’re online. With Word Mobile, you can create or update your documents using many of the same formatting tools that you already know and use in the desktop version of Word, add comments, and use the new outline pane to quickly jump to a heading or comment. Read more about. Word Web application Even when you're away from Word, you can store your documents on a Web server and use the Word Web application to open the document in your browser.
You'll be able to view it and even make changes. For more information, see. Bring your best ideas to life Word 2010 pairs its functional features — such as tables, headers and footers, and style sets — with eye-catching effects, new text features, and easier navigation. Format text and images together for a seamless look Word 2010 provides artistic effects for both pictures and text. And when you apply the effects to text, you can still run spell check.
Plain picture and text formatting 2. Picture and text with shadow formatting Fine-tune your text with OpenType features Word 2010 provides support for advanced text-formatting features that include a range of ligature settings and your choice of stylistic sets and number forms.
You can use these new features with many OpenType fonts to achieve that extra level of typographical polish. Plain text 2. Text with ligatures applied For more information, see. Other new content features Word 2010 offers several other improvements to help you in your document authoring. New numbering formats Word 2010 includes new fixed-digit numbering formats, such as 001, 002, 003. And 0001, 0002, 0003.
Check box content control Now you can add quickly add a check box to forms or lists. Alternative text on tables In Word 2010, you can add a title to a table and a summary, so that readers have access to additional information. Find your way through long documents with the new Document Navigation pane and Search In Word 2010, you can quickly find your way around long documents. You can easily reorganize your documents by dragging and dropping headings instead of copying and pasting. And you can find content by using incremental search, so you do not need to know exactly what you are searching for to find it. In Word 2010 you can do the following:.
Move between headings in your document by clicking on the parts of the document map. Collapse levels of the outline to hide nested headings, so you can work easily with the map even in deeply structured and complicated long documents. Type text into the search box to find your place instantly. Drag and drop headings within your document to rearrange the structure. You can also delete, cut, or copy headings and their content. Easily promote or demote a given heading, or a heading and all of its nested headings, up or down within the hierarchy. Add new headings to your document to build a basic outline or insert new headings without having to scroll around in the document.
Stay aware of the content being edited by others by browsing the headings that contain a co-authoring indicator. See thumbnails of all the pages in your document and click on them to move through your document. Illustrate your ideas Word 2010 brings many graphic enhancements to your work, so you can easily make the impact you want. New SmartArt graphic picture layouts In Word 2010, you can use the new SmartArt graphics picture layouts to tell your story with photographs or other images. Just insert your pictures in the SmartArt shapes of your picture layout diagram.
Each shape also has a caption where you can add descriptive text. Even better, if you already have pictures in your document, you can quickly convert them to a SmartArt graphic, just like you can with text. Using this layout to create a SmartArt graphic is simple:. Insert the SmartArt graphic picture layout. Add your photographs. Write descriptive text. Word includes several different picture layouts to choose from.
New artistic effects With Word 2010, you can now apply sophisticated 'artistic' effects to your picture to make the picture look more like a sketch, drawing, or painting. It's an easy way to enhance your images without using additional photo-editing programs. Some of the 20 new artistic effects include Pencil Sketch, Line Drawing, Watercolor Sponge, Mosaic Bubbles, Glass, Pastels Smooth, Plastic Wrap, Photocopy, and Paint Strokes.
Picture corrections You can now transform your images into compelling, vibrant visuals by fine-tuning the color intensity (saturation) and color tone (temperature) of a picture. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, and blurriness, or you can recolor the picture to better match your document content and to make your work pop. Automatic background removal of pictures Another advanced picture editing option in Word 2010 is the ability to automatically remove unwanted portions of a picture, such as the background, to highlight the subject of the picture or to remove distracting detail.
Better picture compression and cropping Use the new and improved picture-editing tools to trim images and get just the look that you want. Now you have better control of the image quality and compression trade-offs so that you can make the right choice for the medium (print, screen, or e-mail) that your document is used for. Inserting screenshots Quickly add screenshots to capture and incorporate visual illustrations into your work in Word 2010. After you add the screenshot, you can use the tools on the Picture Tools tab to edit and enhance the screenshot. When you reuse your screenshots across documents, take advantage of the Paste Preview feature to see what your additions will look like before you drop them in.
Clip art options with Clip Organizer You can now use, submit, and find thousands of new pieces of community clip art, in addition to the images, videos, and other media you can add to your document. You can see who submitted pieces of community-submitted clip art and report if the images are inappropriate or unsafe. Ink The improved inking feature in Word 2010 lets you make ink annotations on your document on your Tablet PC and save those ink annotations together with the document. Work more easily In Word 2010, you can customize your workspace so that the commands you use often are all together. You can also access earlier versions of your document, and you can more easily work with text that's in other languages. Customize the Ribbon You can use customizations to personalize the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, to be the way that you want it.
You can create custom tabs and custom groups that contain the commands you use most frequently. The Microsoft Office Backstage view In the Microsoft Office Backstage view, you do everything to a file that you do not do in the file. The latest innovation in the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and a companion feature to the Ribbon, the Backstage view is where you manage your files — creating, saving, inspecting for hidden metadata or personal information and setting options. Recover unsaved work It is now easier to recover a Word document if you close your file without saving, or if you want to review or return to an earlier version of the file you're already working in.
As with earlier versions of Word, enabling AutoRecover will save versions while you are working in your file at the interval you select. Now, you can keep the last autosaved version of a file in case you accidentally close that file without saving, so that you can easily restore it the next time that you open the file. Also, while you are working in your file, you can access a list of the autosaved files from the Microsoft Office Backstage view. Point to text to see a translation When you turn on the Mini Translator, you can point to a word or selected phrase with your mouse and see a translation in a small window. The Mini Translator also includes a Play button so you can hear an audio pronunciation of the word or phrase and a Copy button so you can paste the translation into another document. You don't even need the language pack, language interface pack, or proofing tools installed on your computer to see a translation in that language.
For more information, see. Simplified language preference setting Multilingual users can easily access a single dialog box where you can add languages and set the display, ScreenTip, and Help languages. If you don't have the software or keyboard layout installed that you need, you are alerted and links are provided to make it easier to solve the problem.
For more information, see. Work better together Word 2010 helps you to work with your colleagues more efficiently. Word 2010 also includes features to keep your information more secure when you share your work, and to keep your computer more secure from files that might not be safe.
Work on the same document at the same time In Word 2010, you can work together right within Word. You do not have to send with e-mail attachments or save draft documents with names such as TSPfinal2FINAL.docx. Instead, just open your document, and start to work. You can see who else is working with you, and where they are editing.
When you open a shared document, Word automatically caches it so that you can make changes to it offline, and then Word automatically syncs your changes when you come back online. When you must work away from the office, you no longer have to worry about saving local copies or manually merging your changes into the server document when you return to your office. Multiple authors can edit a single document at the same time and stay in sync with each others' changes. Authors can block access to document regions while they are working on them. Stay safer with Protected View In Protected View, files are opened with editing functions disabled. Files from a potentially unsafe location, such as the Internet or an e-mail attachment, or that contain active content, such as macros, data connections, or ActiveX controls, are validated and can open in Protected View. Files from trusted sources can be enabled by clicking Enable Editing, or data about the file can be explored in the Microsoft Office Backstage view.
Find and remove hidden metadata and personal information in files Before you share your document with other people, you can use the Document Inspector to check the document for hidden metadata, personal information, or content that might be stored in the document. The Document Inspector can find and remove information such as the following:. Comments. Versions. Tracked changes. Ink annotations. Hidden text.
Document properties. Custom XML data. Information in headers and footers The Document Inspector can help you ensure that the documents you share with other people do not contain any hidden personal information or any hidden content that your organization might not want distributed. Additionally, your organization can customize the Document Inspector to add checks for additional types of hidden content. Help prevent changes to a final version of a document Before you share a final version of a document, you can use the Mark As Final command to make the document read-only and let other people know that you are sharing a final version of the document.
When a document is marked as final, typing editing commands, and proofing marks are disabled, and people who view the document cannot unintentionally change the document. The Mark As Final command is not a security feature. Anyone can edit a document that is marked as final by turning off the Mark As Final feature. Accessibility Checker Accessibility Checker helps identify and resolve accessibility issues in your documents, so that you can fix any potential problems that might keep someone with a disability from accessing your content. If your document has any accessibility issues, the Microsoft Office Backstage view displays an alert that lets you review and repair any issues in your document, if necessary. You can see the alert by clicking the File tab.
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Arabic text doesn't show properly in Adobe Illustrator. Even with a font that supports Arabic text (e.g. Arial), the text is back to front (left to right, not right to left) and the letters don't join up properly. To an Arabic speaker, it's gibberish. I know that there is an Illustrator version for the Middle East but.
Really, no chance am I buying that just to get a few words into a vector graphic. I've also seen refs for (Winsoft) however it's 100 Euros and I work on CS6 now which isn't supported anyway.
I can't believe that after 16 major versions of Adobe Illustrator there is no way to copy & paste a bit of Arabic into it somehow? Can anyone think of an alternative? Free one if poss, it's a tiny job with 9 words in total.
Thanks very much. Which font are you using? I also couldn't believe they didn't support this, I tried it on Illustrator CS4 (UK version) and I had no problem pasting in some arabic text, so long as the font supported it.
Myriad Pro and most other fonts that only have Roman characters: just boxes. Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Times etc (basically the web safe set): real Arabic text with no problems. If these fonts still don't work for you, maybe (hopefully not.) it's some mad limitation in the US version. – Jun 28 '12 at 11:05. @user568458 Ahah! Yes, no problem if you don't read Arabic which I don't.
And it seemed to 'look' arabic, and was in an arabic font however, no-go with the client because in Arabic letters are not just letters, they are sometimes joined for phonetic reasons (sort of like ligatures) but Illustrator doesn't seem to support this unless you have the 'ME' middle east edition. The solution for me (if you can call it that) in the end was to do it in TextEdit with the font then blow it up to 200pt size, screenshot it and trace it in Illustrator, then I could at least mess with it. Bummer – Jun 28 '12 at 14:57. Edit 2: There are better answers than mine - look at Andaleeb / Kurio's answers and the comments. Edit: Thanks to there's what looks like a simpler solution that also works in Illustrator for point text (it screws up if you have area text that spans more than one line, so you need to use point text then manually put line breaks in and re-order the lines of text, else the first line is at the bottom and the last is at the top). Type or copy your text into the top box on, then copy and paste the output text in the bottom box into Illustrator, and it seems to keep the joins correctly applied and the text appears the correct way round. If it just pastes boxes, make sure a font that supports Arabic characters is selected, e.g.
One of the web safe standard fonts - Verdana, Times, Georgia, Arial. Note that illustrator still treats it like it's left-to-right text, so while it looks correct, editing it will feel strange if you normally type in Arabic. So, if you need to edit the Arabic text, I'd recommend doing the edits in a separate word processor, then copy into the above site, then copy into Illustrator.
You'll also need to set it to right-align. Basically, it seems to forcibly replace the characters with their appropriate joined ligatures. The software doesn't treat it as Arabic text, but the characters you are pasting are the correct joined forms of the characters. Original answer: Here's a side-by-side comparison of the Arabic word for Arabic ( العربية), copied and pasted into a variety of applications with default settings, with suggested best approach at the end.
Here's the original from Wikipedia as a screenshot image for comparison: Illustrator (UK editions, CS4, CS5 and CS6): Doesn't look right. Arabic joins not being applied (plus it looks like it hasn't figured out that this should be right-to-left text). Indesign (UK editions, CS4, CS5 and CS6): Also doesn't look right, same problems way as Illustrator. It's possible there's some setting somewhere that needs to be applied, but given that Scribdoor charged €100 to bring this feature to InDesign, I doubt it. (free open source Illustrator rival): Perfectly presented real inline text the moment it is pasted in. No problems at all. For fun, since TextEdit on Mac apparently has no trouble, let's try smelly old Windows Notepad: Oh dear, Adobe, oh dear.
It might lack style and finesse but it looks like Notepad has applied those joins perfectly. So it seems like the best, most reliable low/no cost solution to Alex's problem is to have a copy of Inkscape handy. When an issue like this comes up, write and style the text in Inkscape as you would do in Illustrator (Inkscape's interface seems weird when used to illustrator, but comparable features are there), then copy and paste the Inkscape text object directly into Illustrator when it is ready. For me (on Windows) copying and pasting translates it into vector paths maintaining the correct lettering. Here's how it looks pasted in to Illustrator and selected (next to Illustrator's earlier attempt for comparison): If keeping a copy of Inkscape installed just for occasional things like this sounds like a pain, those open source guys have thought of that: there's a portable version which you can run off a pen drive. I've never used it so I won't recommend a place to download it that I haven't tried, but it seems to exist and work.
There is an indirect yet way easier solution to this, it works on PC, I don't know if it works on a MAC but it is easy to test:. Find a PSD file containing correctly displayed arabic text that is still possible to edit and which was produced preferably using a Photoshop Middle East version, or alternatively:. use this 'Template to edit and create arabic text' PSD (CS4) from Adobe, ( tried it in both Illustrator & Photoshop CS6, it works!
You can copy paste the text to another file and continue editing it and changing fonts etc. ).
Just extract the.PSD from the compressed file then load it into your Adobe Illustrator. You can now edit the arabic text and shift the font etc. You can even copy/paste it flawlessly, as long as your Illustrator was able to load the original PSD file (try also other types of files, like EPS files generated with a Illustrator ME version maybe? I didn't try that).
Just look for free PSD files containing arabic text (generated with a ME version) on the web and use them. Or use the one I included in step 2 if it's still available.
Hope it will work for you!