Microsoft is often beat up by us techies for various reasons. But, lets give credit where credit is due and also point out when they do nice things. Even if they copied the features from some other company, they should still get some credit for copying good things instead of bad.
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Transparent Strip - Pop-up context-sensitive boxes in Word-2007 have a transparent "strip" that allows you to see the full line of the issue word so that one can see the context of the word. Before, these boxes used to block content, and still do so in other vendor tools. The strip is a nice change.