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Is there anything worse than writing Standard Operating Procedures all afternoon and then… Word crashes! If your Microsoft Word files suddenly become huge and start crashing, here’s one way to fix it. I’ve creating some very large SOPs in Microsoft Word and learnt a few ways to control [...]
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How to Stop Your SOP Procedure Templates From Crashing
August 1st, 2010 · Comments · Normal.dot
Tags: Crash·Exit·Normal.dot·Priniting·Reports·Startup·user guide·word
Gil Grissom Secret Guide to Microsoft Word 2007 Styles?
June 22nd, 2010 · Comments · Style
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Even Gil Grissom would have a hard time doing this.
Sandra wants to know where is the Styles menu option in Microsoft Word 2007.
She wants to update her new business plan and add Notes, Messages, Quotes and other pre-formatted styles. The Styles in Microsoft Word 2003 and [...]
Tags: Checklist·FAQ·Format·Forms·Free·guidelines·Headings. Chapter·Sample·Style·word
MS Word 2010: Is the new Find re-design better or worse?
October 17th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010
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 [...]
Tags: 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
How Word 2010 will be different than Word 2007
September 30th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010
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.
Tags: concepts·Design·document creation·Errors·Microsoft·Microsoft Office·Microsoft Word·Mobile phone·Office Suites·Ribbon·technical writers·User Interface·word·Word 2010·Word Processors
Tracking Business Processes from within MS Office
September 28th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, News, Ribbon, Word 2007
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.
Tags: 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
How to Open and Repair a Damaged Word file
September 27th, 2009 · Comments · Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2007
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.
Tags: 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
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
Tags: asian·Formatting·language·setting·shortcuts·symbols·Tips·Tricks·word·Word 2003·Word 2007
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’.
Tags: asian·Formatting·language·setting·shortcuts·symbols·Tips·Tricks·word·Word 2003·Word 2007
How to get rid of Crop Marks in Microsoft Word 2002 / 2003 / 2007
June 21st, 2009 · Comments · Font, How To, Language Settings, Word 2003, Word 2007
Crop marks are markers that appear in the top left and right of your Microsoft Word documents.
These are called ‘crop marks’. To remove these, you have to disable Asian language support.
This often appear after you open a file which has an Asian language setting; Microsoft Office might activate this setting to display embedded fonts. It’s just trying to be helpful. The thing is: how do you remove it? When you open a document in Microsoft Word, margin marks or crop marks may appear on each corner of the page.
Tags: 2002·2003·2007·asian·Crop·How to·korean·language·Marks·Microsoft·setting·word
Word 2003 Tip – How to Search for and Remove Text Formatted As Hidden
June 21st, 2009 · Comments · How To, Troubleshooting
In Word documents, it is possible to format text as hidden. Because hidden text can contain information you may not want to distribute, you may want to unhide and remove it. To remove all of the text in a document that is formatted as hidden, perform the following steps:
On the Tools menu, click Options. Select [...]
How to count the number of words in a technical document
June 20th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Troubleshooting, Writing
If you want to know how many words there are in a paragraph, or block of copy, select the text and click on Word Count.
To create a keyboard shortcut to Word Count:
From the Tools menu, click Customize.
Select the Command tab and highlight Tools in the list of Categories.
Scroll down the list of Commands and select [...]
Tags: count·document·How to·Technical Writing·word
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
Tags: How to create Giant Fonts in MS Word·shortcuts·symbols·Tips·Tricks·word·Word 2003·Word 2007
