This document discusses customizing the Microsoft Word user interface to improve author experience and document quality. It presents work on enhancing the UI using XML and macros to focus authors on using styles rather than direct formatting. A quick tutorial is provided on starting customization in the Office custom UI editor. Errors are found through editors reviewing documents and validating markup against standards during roundtrip processing.

1. Customizing Microsoft
Word ui

2. Erik Zander
XML-Developer at Studentlitteratur AB

3. 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

4. Why customize?

5. 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

6. What we want to fix

7. What’s the problem
 Low focus on styles
 Easy to just use font and font size
 Important tools “Hidden”

8. Assertions
 Authors are impatient
 Authors are experts in their field
 Authors will never produce perfect documents
 We have editors

9. How?
 Xml based
 Macro (power)

10. Supper quick tutorial where
to start

11. Office custom UI editor

12. Office custom UI editor cont.

13. Enhanced UI

14. Not the complete solution

15. Macros, how to begin

16. Macro cont.

17. How do we find errors?
 Editors (the position, not software)
 Validation through word roundtrip
 Against Docbook
 Against Schematron rules

18. Problems
 Still possible to markup incorrectly
 Mac compatibility
 Still possible to all together ignore styles

19. Alternative solutions
 More macros, asking why the user do what they do
 Different editor

20. Questions?