Archive for ‘Microsoft Word

How to password protect a Word document

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[google1 count="on"] This is something that you should know how to do, and it may come in very handy for you at some point.  If you have any Word document on your computer now that you would not want some people to see, you can set that document to require a password in order [...] Read more »

MS Word 2003, 2007 and 2010 cheat sheets

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Microsoft Word is, by far, the most widely used word processing program in the world today.  You really need to know how to use it whether you are a business owner, an employee, or a student.  However, while Word is fairly intuitive, there are a LOT of features built into it that you may [...] Read more »

Translate your Word document to another language

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I am proud to say I am fluent in English. Other languages, not really. Yet there are a few instances in which it would be handy to be able to speak (or write) in another language.  Some people do business in several countries, and there are those that have friends outside [...] Read more »

Convert a Word file to a PDF file

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Sometimes, you might have a situation in which you need to produce a document in PDF format. PDF stands for Portable Document File, and it was originally created by Adobe. A few years ago, the only way to create a PDF document was to use Adobe Acrobat, which was expensive (even now, the [...] Read more »

Word 2007 scrolling tip

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If you have upgraded to Office 2007, you know that some changes were made. In fact, it takes a little time to get used to finding things in different places. Don’t give up! You’ll end up liking it better than the previous version. Here’s something that you may not know about [...] Read more »

Make an adjustment to Office 2007

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Many people have now upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007. It takes a little getting used to, because Microsoft moved things around a bit. But you will get used to it, don’t worry. There is one thing that is different about the 2007 version that you really need to change. If you [...] Read more »

An MS Word tip that could save your life

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Okay, this tip won’t literally save your life, but someday you might be very glad you did this. This works with Word 2007, which I use. I am not sure if it works with previous versions (if you use an earlier version and determine that it does work, please put that information [...] Read more »

Save some time when you use MS Word

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I used to waste a lot of time every time I opened a blank Word document. Whenever I create a new Word file, I have a couple of preferences. I prefer to use Arial as the font (instead of Times New Roman, which is the default). I also like to use different [...] Read more »

Using MS Word – the real story

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Make Word 2007 look like Word 2003

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I’ve heard from more than a few people that they don’t really like the changes to the layout that came with Microsoft Office 2007. Things sort of got moved around so until you get used to using it, finding those familiar functions is not quite the same as it was before. For some [...] Read more »