Archive for the ‘Word 2007’ Category
Monday, August 25th, 2008
In the Save As dialog box in Word, the left-hand navigation bar shows a few locations where you might save a file. This bar can be customized to display the folders you frequently save to with the following steps:
Use the Save In box to go to the folder you want ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 15th, 2008
The Format Painter is a tool that allows you to copy formatting from text to text, or from one graphic or table to another. You can copy formatting between documents, too. It will copy text and paragraph formatting. It's a tool I go to when numbered or bulleted lists don't ...
Posted in Bullets & Numbering, Cut, Copy & Paste, Paragraph Formatting, Shortcut Keys, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, August 11th, 2008
This is for those Word, Excel or PowerPoint users who find that they repeatedly make the same formatting changes to the Shapes (Insert tab, Illustrations group, Shapes) or the Text Boxes (Insert tab, Text group, Text Box) they use. These are the steps to change the default format for either ...
Posted in Clipart & Graphics, Customize, Excel 2007, Text Boxes & Shapes, Text boxes, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008
These work in many programs, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and are worth trying in any program where you need additional control in positioning graphic elements in a project. The "extra" keys are usually going to be Ctrl, Alt or Shift, so if you don't remember which one to use, don't ...
Posted in Clipart & Graphics, Shortcut Keys, Text boxes, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
If you are a frequent Word user, you probably have created some templates that you use on a regular basis. This article will outline a way to make your templates easier to open, without having to open Word first. What you'll do is create a shortcut on your Windows desktop ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Templates, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
These directions will give you the steps to add form fields (Content Controls) to a Word document. The final, filled-in document could be saved, printed or emailed.
First, if you don't see a Developer tab, that needs to be turned on. Go to Office button, Word Options, and click the Popular ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Practice, Printing, Projects & Practice, Tables, Templates, Word 2007 | 34 Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Hyperlinks make it easy for you to reference and link to other files from your original Word document. By adding a clickable link in a digital copy of the document, a reader can easily jump from the link to the referenced file. Any hyperlinks added into your document will continue ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | 44 Comments »
Monday, July 14th, 2008
This is about the way to control the distance of the header or footer from the edge of the page and how to control the distance between the header or footer and the body of the document.
You can control the amount of space between the edge of the page and ...
Posted in Headers & Footers, Page Numbering, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Spell Check = F7
Thesaurus = Shift + F7
Word will open the Research pane and look up whatever word the cursor is currently in using the built in Thesaurus.
Research Lookup = Ctrl + Shift + O
Opens the Research pane and looks up whatever word the cursor is currently in; you can ...
Posted in Proofing Tools, Shortcut Keys, Word 2007 | No Comments »
