Ha ha... got you didn't I? No this isn't some sneek peak at Office 12, we are all bored of those anyways. Jensen posted about a new feature in Office 12 called Live Preview that will allow you to preview your doc with text formatting without actually applying the text. He dubs it “pick before you click”.
Check out Jensen's Live Preview post
He posted this a week ago, sorry I have been off enjoying a nice holiday sans computers :-) Cheers....