20 October 2009, 1:25 am
One of the hidden features in Microsoft Word is macros. These are small mini-programs that you can create to automate tasks, for example, formatting a document, changing the layout or updating styles.
What is a macro? A macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to accomplish a [...]
Filed under Formatting, How To, Normal.dot, Ribbon, Templates, Tips, Word 2007, Word 2010.
Tagged Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office Word 2007, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Word 2007, Word Options
17 October 2009, 3:39 am
In the new version of Word 2010, there is a new ‘integrated flavor of the Find feature’.
Scott Walker, Lead Program Manager, for Microsoft Word explains that ‘Rather than a modeless dialog box that jumps about on the screen to get out of the way, the basic Find experience now sits conveniently at the top of [...]
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010.
Tagged Design, Dialog box, Errors, find, Find and Replace, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Ribbon, Scott Walker, User experience design, User Interface, Web search engine, word, Word 2010, Word Processors
16 October 2009, 3:16 am
Microsoft have introduced a Mini Translator in Office 2010 that provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words.
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Tricks, Word 2007, Word 2010.
Tagged Design, Errors, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Mini Translator, Outlook, Ribbon, Screenshot, Translation, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors
15 October 2009, 5:52 pm
Mary Jo Foley reports on ZDNET that Microsoft is rolling out a number of new feature additions to its Microsoft-hosted family of “Online” services, including POP e-mail compatibility and better support for Mac clients. Microsoft’s Online family currently includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online, Live Meeting and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). All [...]
15 October 2009, 3:04 am
The Fluent UI, or as it’s better known the Ribbon, was introduced in Office 2007. The Fluent UI technology, like the Open XML formats, is based on XML, which allows for a richer extensibility story for developers.
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010, XML.
Tagged Data Formats, Design, Errors, Markup Languages, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word, Office Open XML, OpenXml, Ribbon, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors, XML
14 October 2009, 2:48 am
Vikas on the Microsoft Office Trustworthy Computing security team explains how a new feature in Microsoft Word 2010 called Protected View.
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010, XML.
Tagged ASLR, Attachments, DEP, Design, Errors, File format, GS, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word 2010, MOICE, New Features, Office 2010, Office Suites, Online, Outlook 2010, Protected View, Ribbon, Sandbox, Temporary Internet Files, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors, XML
12 October 2009, 11:55 pm
Over the years Microsoft Word has crashed on me several times. What’s interesting is that the error message I get tend to vary but the result it always the same – I can’t get Word to start.
Here are some common error messages, the reason why they appear, and what you can do to re-start Word. [...]
Filed under Formatting, How To, Normal.dot, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2003, Word 2007.
Tagged Compile Error, Design, Error Messages, Errors, Macros, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visualbasic, Microsoft Word, Office Suites, Office12, Program Files, Ribbon, Run-Time Error, Start, Startup, Subscript Out Of Range, Template Add In, User Interface, Visual Basic Error, word, Word 2010, Word processor, Word Processors
9 October 2009, 7:21 pm
Microsoft Word can automatically count the lines in a document and display the appropriate number next to each line of text. This is useful if you need to refer to specific lines in a document, such as a legal contract. By default, Word numbers every line in a document (except those in tables, footnotes, endnotes, [...]
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007.
Tagged Design, Errors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Ribbon, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors
30 September 2009, 7:56 am
How can you capture the benefits of brainstorms when your group is spread across locations and time zones?
Filed under Downloads, Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007.
Tagged Business, Design, Economic, Errors, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft Word, MS Office 2010, notebooks, Ribbon, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors
30 September 2009, 7:51 am
Microsoft has published an introduction to how Word 2010 will work. Interesting concepts here for technical writers and others who use Word for document creation.
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010.
Tagged concepts, Design, document creation, Errors, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Mobile phone, Office Suites, Ribbon, technical writers, User Interface, word, Word 2010, Word Processors
28 September 2009, 6:16 pm
John R. Durant’s writes on his MSDN blog that “to make it easier for Microsoft Office developers to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas, John has setup the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook.”
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007.
Tagged "Office Developer Guild", Design, Errors, Facebook, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, MSDN, Ribbon, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors
28 September 2009, 7:01 am
What do you want to see in Microsoft Office 2010? Arpan Shan, who has access to the beta versions at Microsoft, shares his favorite 10 Office 2010 features.
Filed under Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007.
Tagged Design, Errors, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Office 2010, PPTX, Ribbon, Screen clippings, Snagit, Sparklines, User Interface, Word 2010, Word Processors
28 September 2009, 6:18 am
Israeli-based ActionBase have released an interesting application that provides Security Officers with “wave” collaborative software that addresses corporate governance, audit trails security. What interesting from a Microsoft Office perspective is that all of this can be done from within Microsoft Outlook and other Office applications.
Filed under Formatting, How To, News, Ribbon, Word 2007.
Tagged action processes, ActionBase, audit, audit tracking, audit trails, Clients, collaborative, Collaborative software, compliance, corporate governance, Design, dynamic processes, enterprise, Errors, meeting minutes, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Office Suites, Officers, process management, Ribbon, Security, tracking, unstructured processes, User Interface, Wave, word, Word 2010, Word Processors
27 September 2009, 11:05 pm
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.
Filed under Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Misc, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2003, Word 2007.
Tagged Alt key, Autorecovery, Autosave, Crashed, Damaged document, Design, Dialog box, document, Errors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Operating system, Recover, Repair, Ribbon, template, Templates, User Interface, Windows Task Manager, Windows XP, word, Word 2010, Word Processors, XP
27 September 2009, 10:46 pm
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.
Filed under Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2007.
Tagged Autorecovery, Autosave, Crashed, Damaged document, Design, Dialog box, document, Errors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Recover, Repair, Ribbon, template, Templates, User Interface, Windows XP, word, Word 2010, Word Processors, XP
