17 May 2009
No normal person would care, but Microsoft has finally added support for OpenType ligatures in Microsoft Word 2010 (Word 14). They’re not enabled by default, though. To enable OpenType ligatures, right-click on some text, select Font, select the Advanced tab, and select Standard Only from the Ligatures combo box.
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5 February 2009
While writing a long and interesting paper on Australia’s Telecommunications Access Regime, I found that Microsoft Office Word 12 has half-baked support for OpenType ligatures when running on the Windows 7 Beta. It appears Microsoft has been working on implementing OpenType ligatures in Word, and we may finally see support for them in Word 14.
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