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40. DenzilDragon,

Jun 21, 2008 12:33 PM in reply to acropete

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Oh, also, I know you're planning on introducing language support for languages other than English eventually, but what about including 'English' English for now? I'm already sick of telling Buzzword that I'm _not_ misspelling things like 'colour'!

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41. Michael Jahn,

Jun 22, 2008 1:32 PM in reply to Aditya Kumar Pandey

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I concur ! Thanks !

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42. DenzilDragon,

Jun 22, 2008 2:08 PM in reply to acropete

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After using it for a while, I have a few more suggestions:

- text-wrapping should work around tables as well as images
- it would be great to be able to tie a caption to an image so they were moved together and text wrapped around both
- you should be able to set up a contents page and an index for a document (and an index for images), where clicking on an item in either will take you to the relevant part of the text
- are there any plans to introduce an equation editor?

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43. Lisa Underkoffler,

Jun 29, 2008 5:47 PM in reply to acropete

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Thanks to all of you who have been adding to this discussion. Your comments help us prioritize new features and give us some insights that will help us as we design.

In case you haven't seen the Acrobat.com blog, here's a link to some a view ahead for Buzzword. Read more in the blog.

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44. Adam_Engst,

Jun 29, 2008 5:58 PM in reply to acropete

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I don't believe I have anything particularly new to add to the suggestions above, so consider these as votes. We can't even consider using Buzzword unless it has:

* Named styles, duh. But we'd also like an author to be able to set the only available named styles so co-authors have to use them, and only them.
* Automatically updating internal links that export as PDF links
* TOC support that exports as PDF bookmarks
* Variables for links (such as "see page x")
* Full-quality PDF export (not sure what the story is on this now, but we want to do our own PDF compression)
* Top notch HTML export with control over the output tags so we don't have to put up with the horrible HTML that Word puts out.
* Per-author diff, so it's possible to see which author did what.

Other things that would be nice include:
* Automatic publishing to HTML on another site, so changes could automatically propagate to our primary server.
* Markdown support
* RSS/email notification of changes
* Extra-textual commenting that's more like a document discussion
* Export to DocBook XML, ePub, MobiPocket, and other formats

cheers... -Adam

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45. Jeremy22,

Jul 1, 2008 9:06 PM in reply to acropete

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I am enjoying this word processor... here are just a handful of wishes...

1. Select a word by double-clicking.
2. When a word or series of characters are selected, the left arrow should move the insertion point to the beginning, not the end of the selection.
3. Hide the pointer, while typing.
4. Support Command tilde on Mac to support moving to additional browser windows
5. Support opening documents in separate windows, so that I can easily have more than one open. There is a way to do this by opening multiple windows and then going to buzzword in each. But I would like to command click or some other way to do so from Buzzword document browser.
6. Offline work - please!
7. full screen mode (without having to nudge the zoom back and forth) just a simple click that fills the window (or better the screen) making room for comments or not depending whether or not there are any.

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46. Lisa Underkoffler,

Jul 3, 2008 10:42 AM in reply to Jeremy22

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Thanks for the wishlist - a number of the items you're looking for are already on our list of enhancements. Please see our Blog for a quick look ahead.

Your first point - double click should select the word. If you find that this is not working for you, please let us know more details so we can investigate. There is a list of keyboard commands for both PC and Mac in the Help file, for your reference.

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47. Jeremy22,

Jul 3, 2008 8:57 PM in reply to Lisa Underkoffler

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You are right, double clicking a word, does select it. I don't know what caused me to have a different experience earlier. Interestingly it selects the word + the trailing space. I can see that sometimes you might want that, though certainly sometimes you don't. I think selecting just the word, might be the more common expectation/hope. But your user testing will show that.

This gives me a chance to add a couple of requests;
1. some kind of track changes as seen in Word or Pages that allows me to see the authors of the various changes in a collaborative document.
2. columns
3. an option to paste that strips font and/or style information and matches the style of the adjacent text. I might even want this to be the default behavior.

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48. frozen_Alaska,

Jul 5, 2008 1:27 AM in reply to Jeremy22

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I've got a good idea for us people with slow computers.

I was thinking that you could maybe make a pure non-flash version. Maybe use something like what Meebo.com uses. I don't know, but it would be a great for people like me, because Buzzword takes up a lot of memory. I know this is big, and if done, wouldn't be done for a while, but it is merely a suggestion, its really up to you guys.

Thanks!

-Dominick

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49. WiNG_C,

Jul 9, 2008 1:13 AM in reply to acropete

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Greetings,

So far I have been enjoying Buzzword, yet there are a few things I would like to see added

1. Some changes on the documen organizer. Something folder or tag based would be easier to handle in my opinion
2. Justified text alignment
3. A styles manager. Something that allows us to define specific styles for blocks of text we label as title, normal paragraphs, subtitles, etc. The possibility to import these styles from other documents later on would also be quite interesting to have
4. Improved support for Windows Vista. Right now I am forced to run IE7 with Administrative rights at home in order for Buzzword to load. If I run IE with normal privileges the program fails to load as soon as it reaches the font-download progress bar

Thank you in advance!

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50. mm_de_had,

Jul 9, 2008 9:09 AM in reply to acropete

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I'd also like to see integration with blogging tools such as MetaWeblog API etc.

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51. WiNG_C,

Jul 10, 2008 5:40 AM in reply to acropete

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One more for the list:

5. When using Buzzword with text comming from coding, with several spaces, line breaks, tabs, etc; copying the text from Buzzword and pasting it elsewhere seems to remove dupilcate spaces, line breaks, etc. Can that be changed in the future to keep the pasted text as close to the original as possible?

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52. groved,

Jul 10, 2008 1:37 PM in reply to acropete

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A feature which would allow others to sign off on a document or indicate their approval of a document would be very useful. Further, the ability to do this on multiple levels - ie. I have three people who need to sign off on a document in a particular order. (The option of no particular order would be great too!)

I am also wondering if there is a feature where forms can be filled out and submitted back with information filled - allowing the individual accessing the document to only modify the form fields. This is something else that would be handy...

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53. mliljegren,

Jul 10, 2008 3:17 PM in reply to acropete

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Two things would make this a dream application..

1.> Ability to insert images into the header and footer sections.
2.> Folders to organize documents.

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54. Padwen,

Jul 11, 2008 8:09 PM in reply to acropete

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1) Ability to see what has changed between versions. This is critical when documents are shared and modified by a group.

2) Document outlining.

3) Optional e-mail/sms notification when a document has been updated

4) I miss heading numbering 1.1, 1.2.3, etc that automatically updates.

5) Some sort of Visio-like shape editor for shared editing of embedded diagrams. A picture is worth a thousand words you know.

6) Free-form header and footer sections.

7) TOC generation

8) Named styles

Killer app even without the above. Thanks!

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55. AramZS,

Jul 14, 2008 10:14 AM in reply to acropete

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If you gave me the ability to double space the text, I'd give up using Word altogether.

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56. frozen_Alaska,

Jul 16, 2008 4:47 PM in reply to acropete

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I've got a good one.

I was deleting some old stuff off of my hard drive today, and I accidently opened a word document.

As a waited for Word to open so I could close it, I got to thinking: wouldn't it be cool if you could just click a document on your hardrive or do something with it, and it would be exported to Buzzword?

It would probably require a little program to be installed on ones computer, but I would love it, as others would, I am sure.

Thanks!

-Dominick

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57. bob.treitman,

Jul 18, 2008 9:03 AM in reply to AramZS

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quote:

Originally posted by: AramZS
If you gave me the ability to double space the text, I'd give up using Word altogether.

To double-space text, open the Paragraph pleat and select the icon for double spacing. This will apply double spacing to all paragraphs that you have selected (partially or completely). There's also a setting for 1.5x spacing.

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58. bob.treitman,

Jul 18, 2008 9:07 AM in reply to DenzilDragon

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quote:

Originally posted by: DenzilDragon
Oh, also, I know you're planning on introducing language support for languages other than English eventually, but what about including 'English' English for now? I'm already sick of telling Buzzword that I'm _not_ misspelling things like 'colour'!

Done! We've added Canadian and U.K. English, along with many more. Please let us know how the new dictionaries are working for you.

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59. grekofff,

Jul 19, 2008 6:21 AM in reply to Reggy_01

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what do you mean&&&&

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60. Lisa Underkoffler,

Jul 22, 2008 6:44 AM in reply to craistrick

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Just an fyi - as of the release on July 14, 2008 - we now have the capability to export to .odt, Open Document Format.

We will support import in a later release.

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61. Lisa Underkoffler,

Jul 22, 2008 6:49 AM in reply to DenzilDragon

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In case you have not seen the new features in our July 14th release, you'll be happy to know that we've included spell check dictionaries for 19 languages - including UK-English. So, when you type colour with the UK English dictionary turned on, it will be shown as spelled (or spelt) correctly.

Here's a link to more info in our Blog

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62. denisrs,

Jul 22, 2008 8:08 AM in reply to acropete

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I love buzzword for being effective and simple, so I would not try to clone MS Word.

However, basic options to put a diagram in a document would be great!

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63. ,

Jul 22, 2008 11:14 AM in reply to Lisa Underkoffler

Why doesn't buzzword import .pdf files?

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64. YoTcA,

Jul 24, 2008 2:00 AM in reply to Lisa Underkoffler

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I use Buzzword for nearly a year now, and i must say its very handy.
And finaly it supports german dictonary, which i missed most, compared to offline programms.
There is only one feature i wish you could add to the spell checking programm.
Until now it is not possible to skip one word only once in a document. There are situations that request to misspell a word, to show a failure for example, only once in the document.
It would be nice if you could add the possibility to skip single words in spellchecking. (Maybe with a new button in the cerrection-drop-down-menu "skip word", or something)

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65. Jeremy22,

Jul 24, 2008 5:49 PM in reply to Guest

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Given all of the non-text non-word processing documents that travel as pdfs, I am not surprised that you don't support importing PDFs. Though if you do at some point, please be sure to include the comments/annotations that acrobat supports.

Not really part of this comment, but "smart quotes" would be nice. As would basic math shapes.

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66. Lisa Underkoffler,

Jul 28, 2008 8:15 AM in reply to Reggy_01

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See this post and thread for some information on using Buzzword with third party solutions.

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67. cynde894,

Aug 1, 2008 11:18 AM in reply to acropete

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If I share a document with a person and give them read privileges then it would be nice if they couldn't export except to pdf. It kind of defeats the purpose if the can export to Word document and change the document as they please. Also if they are reading the document and it changes it while they are reading it then there should be a notification or maybe the revision should show in another color. Just a suggestion.

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68. DevCloud,

Aug 1, 2008 11:55 AM in reply to acropete

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I've sent feature requests I want by email before, nut another that would be nice is the ability to minimize comments. They are really distracting when reading through and you just want to get the content not all of the comments.

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69. livingtext,

Aug 1, 2008 12:39 PM in reply to DevCloud

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I know this is a minority request, but I'd like to see Export/Import of Apple Pages files.
Also, I'd really like a standalone, desktop version that integrates with the browser/cloud version.

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70. foxie299,

Aug 3, 2008 9:31 AM in reply to acropete

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Just to reinforce what others have already asked for, two things I'd really like to see:
1) Email/RSS notification when a shared document is edited;
2) The ability to count the number of words in a highlighted section.

Thanks!

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71. Lao Ma,

Aug 4, 2008 2:11 AM in reply to acropete

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Dear Foxie299,

Thank you for your posts. We will look into this matter. Please note that Acrobat.com is still in the Beta phase. Hence we welcome your suggestions.

Kind regards,
LaoMa

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72. Lao Ma,

Aug 4, 2008 2:31 AM in reply to cynde894

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Dear cynde894,

Thank you for your suggestion. We will look into it and see whether we would like to implement this feature. Please note that Acrobat.com is still in its beta phase. We welcome your suggestions. Please stay tuned.

Kind regards,
LaoMa

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73. GrimEater,

Aug 5, 2008 10:47 AM in reply to Lisa Underkoffler

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Double-clicking on text is broken.

Sure, you can "double-click" on a word, but it doesn't work like double-clicking in any other app I've ever used. The word is selected on the second mouse UP event, not the second mouse DOWN event, which is the standard. Also, you can't (because of this strange implementation of double-click) do a double-click-drag to select a range of words.

Try double-clicking (and dragging) on text in this message to see what I mean... then compare that with the behavior in Buzzword.

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74. velocite,

Aug 6, 2008 5:26 PM in reply to GrimEater

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comments

so a collaborator adds a comment - like - please delete this 10 words in a sentence
i agree but if i delete any words that are linked to the comment - i lose the comment

i would prefer that i can somehow deselect a lock icon on the comment bar (same size as trash icon is currently?)
and keep the comment as a record of the feedback. at the moment my workaround is to keep one letter from the locked words and thereby keep the comment bubble

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75. velocite,

Aug 6, 2008 5:27 PM in reply to acropete

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"comments"

so a collaborator adds a comment to my existing document- example -

please delete this 10 words in a sentence

i agree but if i delete any words that are linked to the comment - i lose the comment

i would prefer that i can somehow deselect a lock icon on the comment bar (same size as trash icon is currently?)
and keep the comment as a record of the feedback. at the moment my workaround is to keep one letter from the locked words and thereby keep the comment bubble

Text

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76. VivekRagunathan,

Aug 6, 2008 11:59 PM in reply to acropete

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Great idea and BUZZ is cool to work with. Following features would be good:-
* Aligning the text/content alignment facility - Left, Center, Right and JUSTIY
* Email the document directly from BUZZ word
* More fonts
* Save the (edited) document directly to desktop
* Document Templates
* Read-only view for document (this must be default for any document, but must be overriddable for individual document)
* Editing - Change case and such

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77. velocite,

Aug 7, 2008 10:35 PM in reply to VivekRagunathan

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can i second living text's thoughts

support for apple pages
support for a desktop version, away from the cloud

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78. synchrosina@gmail.com,

Aug 8, 2008 3:05 PM in reply to acropete

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A thesaurus (built in, like Word has) would be nice. As well as the ability to export more than one file at a time.

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79. Lao Ma,

Aug 11, 2008 2:23 AM in reply to synchrosina@gmail.com

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Dear Synchrosina,

Thank you for your post. We are looking into your suggestion. At the current stage we cannot say whether it will be implemented and when it will be implemented.

Regards,
Lao Ma

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