You can change the background color of Microsoft Word from White to Blue.
Archive of posts filed under the Troubleshooting category.
How to Add Special Effects to your Next Business Report
How to Animate Text in a Word Document
How to Create Dynamic Web links in your Technical Documents
Instead of using field codes to add filenames and file paths to your document, you can setup Word so that it displays these in the toolbar. You can then add these links to any page in an open document.
How to Improve Readability on Laptops and HD Flat Panel Displays
This free download from MS “delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
5 Tips for Keyboard Fanatics & Time Poor Tech Writers
Donationcoder continue their excellent series of products with TapTap Hotkey Extender, a tiny super-efficient tray-based utility (under <100k) for keyboard fanatics.
How to Open and Repair a Damaged Word file
You can “force” Word to recover a document after it has crashed. Here’s how. Microsoft Word tries to automatically recover a damaged document if it detects a problem with the file.
How to Stop Microsoft Word Getting a Macro Virus
How to Stop Microsoft Word Getting a Macro Virus
3 Reasons Why Microsoft Word Documents Become Corrupt
3 Reasons Why Microsoft Word Documents Become Corrupt
5 Things you can’t do with the Microsoft Word 2007 Ribbon
I have Microsoft Word on two different PCs. My old laptop have Word 2003 (which I know and love) and the new, shiny desktop has (sadly) Word 2007. It’s not so bad, but the ribbon is driving me insane. Here are 5 things I can’t make it do:
How to Open & Save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 files in earlier versions of MS Office
If you use MS Office XP, MS Office 2002/2003 and you want to open documents created in Office 2007 formats, you must install the Office Compatibility Pack. It’s free to download from Microsoft and easy to install.
How to Fix Error Message “Do you want to download a compatibility pack so that you can work with this file”
How to Fix Error Message “Do you want to download a compatibility pack so that you can work with this file”
How to Fix Damaged & Corrupt Word 2007 Documents – Part 2
This article provides advanced Troubleshooting steps if your damaged document still does not open. It describes how to identify a damaged document and how to recover the text contained in a document.
