Archive for the ‘Word 2007’ Category
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
A good question came through the comments. Beth G. asked:
Does anyone know if it is possible to create a larger document in Word than the standard 8.5 X 11? I would like to create a document that is 11 X 17.
You can change the paper size of your document ...
Posted in Page Formatting | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Here the positive things about Quick Parts:
It can be anything you use repeatedly in Word documents, and can be made up of any document part, like graphics, text, tables or fields, or any combination of those things.
Nothing to remember, you can insert them through a menu.
Easy to create ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The title is not meant to be deceiving: Word 2007 doesn't come with this, but you can set it up yourself. Here are the directions to customize Word so you can have the "two-click insert for file name and path" that many folks feel is missing from Word 2007. Yes, ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Practice, Word 2007 | 49 Comments »
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
A gutter is used when you will have a bound edge on your printouts. If your printout will be bound in a 3-ring binder, you would have a gutter of one-half to three-quarter inch. The margins would be measured in from the gutter, so your printed page would continue to ...
Posted in Margins, Page Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Printing, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
If you work on multiple Word documents at a time, having the Save All command easily accessible can be a terrific time saver. Save All will save all your open Word documents in one click. Using it to save everything you're working on before you exit out of Word will ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
If you wanted to save the graphics out of a pre-2007 version of Word, you would have had to copy and paste each one to a graphics program and then save each as a file.
In the Word 2007 xml document format, the graphics are actually saved as separate parts of ...
Posted in Clipart & Graphics, File Related, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
A question that recently came in through the comments is:
I need to number a Word 2007 document in the following manner
Cover page - no number and I don't want to use the default Word cover page
Section A….i, ii, iii, iv etc
Section B Page 1 of 55
I can do most ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Page Numbering, Sections, Word 2007 | 7 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
If you have a number of different programs running, and want to arrange just a couple of those to fill your screen space, here’s how.
Open both programs.
Left click on the button for one of the programs on the Taskbar.
Ctrl + Click on the other program’s button on the Taskbar.
Immediately ...
Posted in Windows XP, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2008
If you use page numbering or have the current date insert automatically, you are using fields. Many Word users rely on manually inserting fields to automate their documents, and use fields to insert the file name and path, the total number of pages, bibliographies, table of contents or indexes, or ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, File Related, Headers & Footers | 9 Comments »
