Microsoft Products and Arabic Support

Microsoft Products and Arabic Support
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Microsoft Office Word 2007 Arabic support
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Table of contents
1. Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007
2. Arabic support for Microsoft office word 2007 new features 2.1 Numbers & Date Format 2.2 Building Blocks 2.3 Comparing & Merging Documents 2.4 Document Information Panel 2.5 Arabic Proofing Options 2.6 Saving document as PDF 2.7 Blogging 3. Known Issue 3.1 Equations
Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007

Office Word 2007 is a powerful authoring application that gives the user the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the new easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Also it helps information workers to create professionallooking content more quickly than ever before. With a host of new tools, that the user can quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles, as well as compose and publish blogs directly from within Word. Advanced integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and new XML-based file formats make Office Word 2007 the ideal choice for building integrated document management solutions.
Arabic support for Microsoft Office Word 2007 features Numbers & Date Format
they are as the same as in previous versions of Microsoft Office systems, Microsoft Office Word 2007 come with the option that gives the Arabic user the ability to change the formats of the Numbers & Date whether setting the numbers to be displayed in the Hindi or English numbers or setting the months names to be displayed in Arabic names, English or French.
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Figure 1: Displaying numerals in Arabic Steps for Displaying Arabic numbers: 1. 2. 3. 4. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 Click on the "Office" button then -> Select "Word Options" Click on the "Advanced" tab, and scroll down to the "Show Document Content" From the "Numeral" option, click on the combo box and select the "Hindi" option for displaying numbers in the Arabic shapes.
Figure 2: Displaying month names in Arabic Steps for Displaying months in Arabic Names: 1. 2. 3. 4. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 Click on the "Office" button then -> Select "Word Options" Click on the "Advanced" tab, and scroll down to the "Show Document Content" From the "Month Name" option, click on the combo box and select the "Arabic" option for displaying month names in Arabic language
Building Blocks
is one of the new automation & recycling features in Word 2007 that let the user save a specific part in a document or specific paragraph in the users document as a template for later use. User can simply select a paragraph in a document or design in a specific page and choose to save this part under the "Building Blocks organizer" for later use on a current working document or any
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other document. User can select and add any parts of any document that contain Arabic content.
Figure 3: Create new quick part
Figure 4: Create new category for the quick part
Figure 5: Building blocks organizer Steps for creating blocks: 1. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 2. Create a new document; select a paragraph or a part in the document 3. Click on the "Insert" pane -> from the "Text" area click on the "Quick Parts" drop down menu 4. Choose from the menu "Save Selection to Quick Parts gallery" 5. Begin on filling all the needed information about this Part that will be used later on -> ok - To retrieve and re-use the part that was just saved 6. Click on the "Insert" pane -> from the "Text" area click on the "Quick Parts" drop down menu 7. Choose from the menu "Building Block Organizer" 8. From the block organizer, locate & select the quick part that was just saved -> "Insert"
Comparing & Merging Documents

Back in office 2003 user was able to compare and merge two different document through the Microsoft Word without giving the user the ability to view the two working document and work simultaneously an recognize the difference between documents. Now in Microsoft Office Word
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2007, user will be able to compare and manage all the data between two documents in one single view with all the option available for the user to compare and merge two different documents and with all its Arabic language contents.
Figure 6: Comparing Documents
Figure 7: Compare documents view Steps for comparing documents: 1. 2. 3. 4. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 Open a document that will be compared with another document Select "Review" tab from the upper pane From the "Compare" area, click on the "Compare" button, from the drop down list, select "Compare" 5. From the compare dialog, select the original document and the other document that will be compared and click Ok
Document Information Panel

Microsoft Office Word 2007 simplified the use of the document properties by having the document properties to be displayed in the same view of the work area. User can now easily add the Arabic required information and properties for the document from the quick properties panel.
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Figure 8: Document information panel Steps for changing document properties: 1. Launch 2007 Microsoft Word 2. Open a document 3. Click on the "Office" button -> Select "Prepare" -> "Properties"
Arabic Proofing Options

When using the Arabic localized version of the Microsoft Office Word 2007 or even using the Multi Language User interface pack with the Arabic proofing tools, Word enable for the user 3 modes for the Arabic proofing inside Word options. These modes are specially designed for the Arabic user to specify whether spell checker in Microsoft Word should consider words that contain Unicode character "Alf Hamza"& "Final Yaa" as wrong words or not.
Figure 9: Arabic proofing options Steps for Arabic proofing options: 1. 2. 3. 4. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 Open a document that need to be Arabic language proofed Click on the "Office" button then -> Select "Word Options" Click on "Proofing" -> Arabic modes
Saving document as PDF

For more sharing and connectivity between other users that may not be using Microsoft Office Word 2007 application, user have been giving the ability to be able to save a word document in other document formats such as the PDF document format. User is able to save the document normally in Arabic language and with the extension of the PDF which will let Portable Document Format users be able to open your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents easily.
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Figure 10: Saving document as PDF Steps for Saving document as PDF: 1. Launch Microsoft Office Word 2007 2. Click on the office button -> "Save As" -> select "PDF or XPS"
Blogging
Microsoft Office Word 2007 has supplied the user with an option to share document on the Internet and especially through the Blogs site that let the user share his entire favorite document with friends and family online. Blogs can now be accessed through the Microsoft Word with the ability of publishing Word Document online and with one single click. User could publish Arabic document that contain Arabic Contents and view it easily on blogging sites, such as the Microsoft Live Space and other blogging site supported by Microsoft Office Word 2007, for more information about blogs please visit http://office.microsoft.com/ar-sa /wss/HA101726551025.aspx?pid=CH101787251025
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Figure 11: Writing a new blog
Figure 12: Confirming that blog has been published
Figure 13: Published blog on MSN Space blog site Steps for Starting blog: 1. Microsoft Office Word 2007 2. Click on the Office button -> click on "Publish" -> select "Blog" - To start a blog on Microsoft Word, user must first have an account on one of the Blog services supported by Microsoft Office Word 2007. Once the user set the Blog account correctly with Microsoft Word, user will just continue the process of publishing the desired Blog document to the Blog site. 3. After finishing writing the document and the title of the Blog -> Click on "Publish"
Known Issue Equations

Equations is one of the features that still doesnt meet or support the Arabic language guidelines. This problem will mainly affect Arabic users that needs to have the equation from Right to Left, but unfortunately Equations in Microsoft Office Word 2007 doesnt follow the Arabic direction and instead it follows the English direction Left to Right.
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