Microsoft Word 2013 now has "expand and collapse"

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Posted by Tim the Red
Mar 20, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Tell me if you’ve heard this one: “I have a love/hate relationship with MS Office - I love Excel and hate Word!”

That’s me. Anyway, the latest Word may be of interest to the outlining crowd, since it adds folding, putting little expand/collapse triangles on all Headings. There’s also “expand all” and “collapse all”. And apparently some improvements to the Navigator view.

I’m intrigued. Not sure when we’ll “upgrade” at the office, and I use LibreOffice at home, but I must admit I’d like to try this out.

Anyone out there have a chance to use it yet? Thoughts?

links:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/collapse-or-expand-parts-of-a-document-HA102840146.aspx
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/10/10/students-love-word.aspx (number 5 on this list)

Posted by Lucas
Mar 20, 2013 at 01:59 AM

Excellent feature! I had not been aware. I just tried it out and it seems to work well. It doesn’t appear to work in ‘Draft’ view, but it works in the ‘Print Layout’ and ‘Web Layout’, and then of course there’s still ‘Outline View’. For me it’s a blessing to be able to hide certain sections of text in order to focus on others, and in the past I had created complex workarounds to achieve this. I’m glad to see that folding is going mainstream!

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