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
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
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, 6:18 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
29 June 2009, 1:20 am
Question: I have a serious problem, I am unable to edit any of the document. All documents/sheets are locked. Why do they say ‘read-only’?’
27 June 2009, 9:14 pm
How to remove margin marks in Word 2003
Filed under Formatting, How To, Language Settings, Style, Templates, Troubleshooting.
Tagged asian, Formatting, language, setting, shortcuts, symbols, Tips, Tricks, word, Word 2003, Word 2007
25 June 2009, 9:11 pm
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’.
Filed under Language Settings, Word 2003, Word 2007.
Tagged asian, Formatting, language, setting, shortcuts, symbols, Tips, Tricks, word, Word 2003, Word 2007
21 June 2009, 8:52 pm
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.
Filed under Font, How To, Language Settings, Word 2003, Word 2007.
Tagged 2002, 2003, 2007, asian, Crop, How to, korean, language, Marks, Microsoft, setting, word
21 June 2009, 6:48 am
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 [...]
20 June 2009, 6:52 am
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 [...]
20 June 2009, 6:50 am
How to create Giant Sized Fonts in MS Word
Filed under Font, Formatting, How To, Style, Writing.
Tagged How to create Giant Fonts in MS Word, shortcuts, symbols, Tips, Tricks, word, Word 2003, Word 2007
19 June 2009, 6:54 am
If you frequently need to insert a word, line or block of text into MS Word documents you can easily automate the process with a simple keyboard shortcut.
Highlight the text and press Alt + F3, to create an AutoText entry, then give it a name or accept the default that appears in the dialogue box [...]
Filed under Formatting, How To, Style, Templates, Writing.
Tagged Automate, Datasheet, document, Metadata, Report, Technical, Tip, word
18 June 2009, 6:55 am
Word Tip – How to scroll through Technical Documents
Filed under How To, Tips, Word 2003, Word 2007, Writing.
Tagged CMS, MSVP, shortcuts, Software, symbols, Technical, Tips, Tricks, word, Word 2003, Word 2007, Writing
