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How to change MS Word’s default color White to Blue

November 18th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, News, Print, Style, Templates, Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting, Word 2010

You can change the background color of Microsoft Word from White to Blue.

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How to Add Special Effects to your Next Business Report

November 17th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, News, Templates, Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting, Writing

How to Animate Text in a Word Document

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How to Force Word to Close after it Crashes

September 27th, 2009 · Comments · Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Misc, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2003, Word 2007

Word crashed. But when you go to re-open it, it refuses to do so. What’s happening here and how do I fix it.
When Word crashes, the Winword.exe file may still remain open.

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How to Recover a Lost File in Word 2007 or Word 2003

September 27th, 2009 · Comments · File Properties, Formatting, How To, Misc, Recommended, Ribbon, Word 2003, Word 2007

When you write a Microsoft Word document it creates a temporary file (.tmp) that saves your file as you work. When Word crashes — even if you have NOT saved the file —the tmp file is still on your PC. Want to find where it is? Here’s how to do it.

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When is a Word document not a document?

June 28th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, News, Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting, Writing

When is a Word document not a document?

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Review The Office 2007 UI Bible

June 28th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, News, Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting, Writing

Review The Office 2007 UI Bible

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Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7

June 27th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, News, Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting, Writing

Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7

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How to Compare Fonts in MS Word

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Misc, Style, Troubleshooting, Writing

If you are constantly fussing over fonts for your documents then there’s a very handy feature in Windows that allows you to quickly compare typefaces according to style and design.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-15

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

Getting very hot here in Shanghai. Learning Chinese has ground to a halt. Hard to work all day n study grammar at night. #
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http://ping.fm/1YefR http://ping.fm/PgnZx #
Review: Documents To Go raises [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-14

June 14th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

How to open a .img file or .sfv file – http://ping.fm/v42UD #
Process Design Tip – IBM Line of Visibility Enterprise Modeling (LOVEM) http://ping.fm/U25GA #
IBM's Business Transformation Page – The page you requested cannot be displayed… http://ping.fm/KT5wJ #
Flickr Tip – change the default settings on your Flickr page http://ping.fm/BaU9K #
Adding Line Spacing Above and Below [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-13

June 13th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

RT @jimkirk1943 Top Tricks On Using Clickbank To Sell Digital Products http://bit.ly/hCnZ3 #
Facebook Nabs The Man Who Developed Google AdSense http://ping.fm/iPjCd #
@GuyKawasaki go to bed, Guy! too late to be up. gt posts, by the way but you need sleep too… in reply to GuyKawasaki #
http://twitpic.com/79q9z – Fish as Sales Men! #
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Edit Word and Excel files over a wireless connection

April 12th, 2009 · Comments · Misc, Writing

AppleBlog reports that Quickoffice submitted their app for approval to Apple and if all goes well, it could be available for purchase in the App Store sometime early next
Quickoffice let you view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files and share them over a wireless connection.
It’s a collection of three individual apps, two of which [...]

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Does Outsourcing threaten Tech Writers careers?

September 5th, 2008 · Comments · Misc, Writing

One of the things I’ve noticed while doing the Tech Writers Salary survey is the tendency for US IT companies to start outsourcing their technical documentation.

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Free Absence Request Form

November 23rd, 2007 · Comments · Misc, Writing

Download this popular Absence Request Form over here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC061075401033.aspx?pid=CT012261941033

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How to create reusable document parts

November 23rd, 2007 · Comments · Misc, Writing

Learn how to create templates from the people who make Word! 
There are some excellent tutorials over here thatI’d recommend:
“If you want to use a building block in documents based on one template only, you need to save a copy of the template first so I usually start there. You can also add a building block to the Quick Parts for [...]

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