partners who attended teamMicrosoft Live! events. As part of a pilot experiment, consumers in Australia, France, and New Zealand could purchase a subscription for Office XP starting in May 2001; the worldwide release of the activation model was contingent on the success of the pilot experiment, but Microsoft terminated support for subscriptions in 2002 based on feedback and research that demonstrated it was not well understood by consumers. Office 365—released over a decade after Office XP—has since reintroduced subscription-based licenses to consumers. User assistance A new "Ask a Question" feature appears in the top-right corner of all Office XP programs and allows users to type natural language questions and receive answers without opening the Office Assistant ("Clippy") or Office Help. Additionally, Office Help has been updated to aggregate and display content from the Internet in response to a query. The Office Assistant is now disabled by default and only appears when Help is activated. New application-specific features New features in Word 2002 A Clear Formatting option which reverts all changes made to selected text, but retains hyperlinks A Drawing Canvas allows content such as WordArt to be aligned to a fixed position For Indian languages, fonts with the Devanagari script and Tamil script are now rendered correctly thanks to updated version of Uniscribe. Also, proofing tools were introduced for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Non-real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple users across a file share or server to edit a document and merge changes without requiring it to be unlocked; when a user is finished editing and closes the shared document, other users can view his or her edits and merge their own changes Multiple portions of text can be selected simultaneously in a document Styles for bulleted lists and tables Support for filtered web pages, which allows users to the reduce the size of a HTML document by removing XML tags and Word-specific formatting Support for watermarks in documents The General tab of the Properties dialog box now displays the file format of an open document Word count toolbar New features in Excel 2002 Border drawing with grid, line color, style, and weight options Colors can now be added to tabs in a worksheet Drawings and pictures can now be inserted directly as headers or footers Function argument information in tooltips If a cell contains a large number that its associated column is too narrow to display