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Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:28 PM

Handy How To Videos

If you need something to watch over lunch, check-out the following new Word 2007 How To videos from Office Online [text below reused from Office Online]: Add and remove page breaks : Frustrated with the layout of your document? By taking advantage of
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Friday, July 18, 2008 2:14 PM

Line Numbering

I recently had a friend email me a Word document where just about every line was part of a numbered list. When I asked my friend why he did this he replied: "I wanted an easy way to refer to specific lines in the document during conversations. Now I can
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:34 AM

Picture Styles

While I’m obviously a fan of Word 2007, there are only a few things in Word 2007 that literally left me speechless the first time I experienced them. Picture Styles are one of those things. It’s hard to do justice to the simplicity and impact of this
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:14 PM

Widows & Orphans

Hi everyone. My name is Leslie Cole and I write help content for Word. This is my first blog entry, and it was prompted by a number of customer questions about the subject of widows and orphans. Let me know if I answered your question; I look forward
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Monday, June 23, 2008 5:09 PM

More Q&A: Columns and Text Wrapping

We saw some questions around columns and text wrapping in Word popping-up in the blogosphere recently, so in today's Q&A: How do I layout part of my document in columns? How do I get my figures/images/objects on the right side of my document and the
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:40 AM

Who is "Author?" Part 2

Thanks to some great comments from Jeremy and PamC on the Who is "Author?" post it looks there are a few additional points worth making about the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Document Inspector. Since this is only mentioned briefly in Who
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Friday, June 13, 2008 1:58 PM

Who is "Author?"

Personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot-button issue these days. If you've ever had your identity stolen, you'll understand why. Personally, I spent about six months clearing up my identity being stolen about a year ago. Lame. If are concerned
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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:49 PM

Word Q & A: Is the change tracking off?

This is a true story: I'm riding my bike home from work. It's a pretty long ride—almost 18 miles. I'm about a third of the way into it, past the first big intersection and pedaling along the shoulder up a slight grade when my cell phone rings. It's my
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Friday, May 16, 2008 11:13 AM

Office Labs and Community Clips

Following up on Jon’s blog about questions that we are not posting about on our team’s blog, I wanted to share a new resource that just went live a few weeks ago. The new resource is called Community Clips and can be found at http://communityclips.officelabs.com/
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Friday, May 09, 2008 1:51 AM

Even More Word Q & A

This question came across my desk last week. Can you add a section TOC in a Word document? You have your main table of contents, or TOC, at the beginning of your document—but what if you want to create a separate TOC in one of the sections or chapters
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Friday, May 02, 2008 2:00 AM

The Fantastic Five

There are five little-known features in Word that just make me smile. And while you have to dig for them once—as they don't really fit-in on the Ribbon —once you've got 'em, you've gotta have 'em. At least I do. With no further ado, the fantastic—or at
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:30 PM

Necessity is the Mother of Discovery

In The Republic, Plato said "…the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." Over the years, this phrase morphed into the idiom "necessity is the mother of invention." I've found that when working with a product as rich as Word, this
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:21 PM

Making your Output Greener

Though most documents created today are viewed online, a great many are still printed. We frequently hear requests asking how to make printed Word documents use less paper. Reducing unused space on the page is the most obvious way to reduce your document's
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Friday, February 29, 2008 7:06 PM

More Word Q & A

Thank you to everyone who has posted questions. We're looking at them and looking into many of them. In the meantime, here are a couple that have cropped up in the hallways. And what are those links at the end? That's where you can find information in
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Monday, February 04, 2008 1:00 PM

Word Q & A: Tables and Charts

Last time I posted here, a few questions came up. One was whether people could ask questions in the comments. Another question was about charts, and we thought we'd take a few moments to address that question now. Tables and charts: Will they play together
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