<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear community members,<div><br></div><div>About a month ago, Savas a researcher at Microsoft developed an open source plugin for Word, using SWORD. Ideally, the plug in will allow authors using WORD to deposit their materials directly into a repository. As this is the first release of this plugin we need folks from the community to test it, check interoperability and give feedback. Savas warned this is still experimental and needs testing. You can find the plug in at:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/OfficeSWORD/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=18157" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.codeplex.com/OfficeSWORD/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=18157</a></o:p></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F497D" face="'Segoe UI'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F497D" face="'Segoe UI'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">If you test it, please post to the list your findings. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Michele Kimpton</font></div></div></body></html>