Sometimes getting started with a new application can be a little bit daunting. I may be surprised, but I’d think just about everybody over the age of 16 these days has probably spent some time in Microsoft Word, maybe Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

I find that when I’m staring at a blank canvas or a nice and blank “new document” I don’t have a good idea of what direction I could be heading with my thoughts or needs. If you start with a template and see what other people have done with the tool you’re using, it can help get your …read more

Collaborative editing isn’t something that need to do very often, but when I do, the first thing that I’m going to be installing is the absolutely brilliant Textflow,  which just launched in public beta yesterday. TextFlow is an Adobe AIR application that lets one ‘master editor’ to merge documents from up to seven other editors.
Using TextFlow, editors send their changes to the master editor, who then can simply drag and drop all of the different versions of a document to TextFlow, which will then look at all the documents in the service, finding all of the edits, and then will …read more

Here’s an old video but worth reviewing. This shows how to use mail merge function in MS Word.

Here’s a video tutorial from MSDN Blogs, on how to create bibliography referencing using Microsoft Word 2007.
Microsoft Word 2007: Bibliography – Funny blooper videos are here

Here’s another Add-in for MS Word 2007:
The Release Candidate of the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 provides authors of scientific articles with the ability to read and write files from Word 2007 into the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving articles in the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, PubMed Central.
This Release Candidate is targeted at the staff of scientific and technical journals, Information Repositories, and early adopters within the scholarly authoring community, as well as developers of publishing solutions and workflows.
[ via …read more

If you are annoyed with the list of recently opened documents in MS Office 2007 button or you are spying on someones PC by opening document files and want to leave no trace of evidence (hahaha!), then follow this steps to clean up that list.

Open MS Word 2007 and click the Office Button atop the menu.
With the pop-up showing the recent documents, click the ‘Word Options’ located below.
The ‘Word Option’ window will appear and click on the ‘Advanced’ Tab on the left.
Scroll down below and locate the ‘Display’ group and change ‘Show this number of recent documents’ value to your …read more

Letters and Contracts are confidential papers and must be kept secured as it is. Even copyrighted documents need proper security to avoid any disclosure of information or plagiarism.  Usually, watermarks are provided to documents such as mentioned above. And creating watermarks in MS Word 2007 is easy. You can either choose to have a text or image based watermarks for your documents. Follow this steps:

Open MS Word 2007.
Click on the ‘Page Layout’ Menu Group.
Click on the ‘Watermark’ icon and a pop-up of predefined watermarks will appear.

If you want to create your custom watermarks, click ‘Custom Watermark’ below.
A pop-up windows will …read more

Do you know that you can use some stylesheets with MS Word? Well, using styles makes it easy for you to work with documents with specific purpose. For example, if you want to create a resume or letter, you can use templates and apply some custom styles to personalize it more.
Well, you need to create first your custom style if you don’t want to use some predefined styles provided by MS Word.

Read on this article, “How to modify styles in Microsoft Word“, for you to have your custom style. After doing so, apply this custom style to all your …read more

If you are creating a list of names of your clients, students, or some contacts; better have it alphabetized by last name. And sorting it manual will take much time of course. But, here’s a video on how to sort last names in MS Word.

When I am working on an online research, I usually copy-paste text from websites for later reading. When pasting the text in the Microsoft Word, the text format from the website goes along. So, at times, I need to open Notepad in order to remove the text formatting, not knowing that there’s a way to do it directly from your Microsoft Office.

Paste Special is a build-in function of Microsoft Office which allows you to paste text as unformatted, HTML, or unformatted Unicode as shown above. So, next time around, if you wish to just copy-paste the text alone, you may …read more