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How to Optimize PDF Files for Web Sites

November 16th, 2009 · Comments · Font, Formatting, How To, Style

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web.

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How to Create Dynamic Web links in your Technical Documents

November 13th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Style, Troubleshooting, Writing

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.

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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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Download the Word 2003 to Word 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

September 20th, 2009 · Comments · Downloads

Download the Word 2003 to Word 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

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How to create Absolute and Relative Hyperlinks in Word 2007/2003 documents

September 16th, 2009 · Comments · File Properties, How To

MS Word automatically creates a hyperlink when you type the address of an Web page, such as www.ivanwalsh.com, into a document. This happens only if you have not turned off the automatic formatting of hyperlinks functionality. If you want, you can also create customized hyperlinks to documents, for example, to a shared drive. Note [...]

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How to Create a Custom Toolbar in Word 2003

September 10th, 2009 · Comments · Word 2003

You can create a custom toolbar in Word 2003 to organize the commands you use most often or those you want to use for a specific task. The advantage of this is that once it’s setup, you can get the most from Word and not have to dig around looking for those hidden commands.

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How to remove the Ribbon from Word 2007

September 10th, 2009 · Comments · How To

One of the things that annoys me the most in Word 2007 is the so-called ribbon. This is the menu bar that runs across the top of the screen and hold the menu options. As well as being very different that Word 2003, it tends to get in the way when taking screenshots or when [...]

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How to remove margin marks in Word 2003

June 27th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Language Settings, Style, Templates, Troubleshooting

How to remove margin marks in Word 2003

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What are Crop Marks – Microsoft Word 2002 / 2003 / 2007 Tips

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · Language Settings, Word 2003, Word 2007

When you open a document in Microsoft Word, margin marks or crop marks may appear on each corner of the page. Crop marks are markers that appear in the top left and right of your Microsoft Word documents. These are called ‘crop marks’.

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Word 2003 Tip – How to Change the Background Color in a Word Document

June 23rd, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Style, Tips, Tricks, Writing

The bright white text area of most word processors can become a quite tiring on the eyes after a few hours. You can of course jiggle the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor but a far better solution is to give your blank pages a light grey tint. 

Open Word so that you can judge [...]

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How to create Giant Sized Fonts in MS Word

June 20th, 2009 · Comments · Font, Formatting, How To, Style, Writing

How to create Giant Sized Fonts in MS Word

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Word Tip – How to scroll through Technical Documents

June 18th, 2009 · Comments · How To, Tips, Word 2003, Word 2007, Writing

Word Tip – How to scroll through Technical Documents

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Word Tips on Twitter: 2009-06-17

June 17th, 2009 · Comments · Tips

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Dual Screen Wallpapers

June 17th, 2009 · Comments · How To

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