[Article] Giving Feedback on Microsoft Word or other Microsoft Products

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Note, this forum and any Q&A forum in general is not the place to get any changes made in Word nor the attention of developers at Microsoft.

This is an independent user-to-user support forum. MS does not see anything you post in this forum. The way to get their attention is through the feedback mechanisms.

• Microsoft Word Feedback Portal – allows a public feedback that can be voted on
• Word Feedback Portal - alternative link - Word Feedback Portal
• Microsoft applications (general) Feedback Portal
• Microsoft applications Feedback Portal - alternative link - Microsoft applications Feedback Portal

The above link to public feedback forums. I prefer these because:

1. Others can see, comment on, and vote for your suggestions.
2. You can copy the URL and give links to others so that they can easily do so.
3. It is easier for you to see what feedback you've given and what the response to it has been.

There are alternative links because in November 2025 Microsoft kept changing the URL. Both of the links worked at different times.

You can also give private feedback through the Help tab in your application.

Giving feedback does not mean you get a response. Responses are extremely rare. That is why I prefer posting public feedback on the feedback portal where other users can see it, comment on it, and vote for it. You can give a link to that feedback as well. I believe that I have, though, seen changes made to Word as a direct result of feedback that I and others have made.

My personal preference is to use the Word Feedback Portal. If you do, please get a share link and post it in a thread on this forum about the problem so that others seeing that thread can go to the Feedback Portal and vote and comment. While you are there, check for other posts and feel free to vote and comment on those as well!

I am sometimes critical of Microsoft. However, I recognize that Microsoft is a huge company and the left hand often does not know what the right hand is doing.

 There is tremendous pressure to get improvements and fixes into the hands of users, but they do need to stay in business. These problems for users are not, I am sure, deliberate. The employees there really do want users to have a pleasant experience and to be able to use the truly amazing powers of their software. The priorities can be changed by feedback, which is why I encourage use of those mechanisms. The squeaky wheel gets attention.