Well, it's that time again.  Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2 is just around the corner and it is time to start talking about the new features. 

One of our most exciting new features is the ability to generate Microsoft Office Word 2007 (DOCX) documents from Word documents.  Beta 1, due in about a week, focuses on generation of very high-fidelity rich text documents.  You can generate new Word documents from scratch or start with the Word template of your choice.  All this gets checked into a SharePoint document library, of course, along with whatever permissions, meta and custom fields you deem appropriate. 

Beta 2 will complete the picture with setting of Word document properties (including custom properties and content control values).  This will be especially cool for people who like to use Word as the "form" for viewing and editing complex documents.  I think that people are just starting to understand the power of the OpenXML format, but this option is in many ways as compelling as InfoPath is for rebuilding Notes applications.

To whet your appetite, here are three samples of Notes documents from our standard demo database that I converted to Word: