Productivity Improvements

Microsoft has added various new features intended to help users get their work done more quickly, efficiently, and conveniently. Word 2003's most important productivity improvements include the following:

  • Reading Layout (see Chapter 2, “Navigating Word 2003”). Word 2003 provides the new Reading Layout view, which has been designed specifically to make it easy to read and review documents. By default, Reading Layout uses Microsoft's ClearType technology, which is intended to increase legibility (see Figure 1.6).

    Figure 1.6. Word 2003's Reading Layout view.

  • Thumbnails (see Chapter 2). Word 2003's new Thumbnails make it ...

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