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- How do I... Fill a Word table with Access data?
- Almost effortless collaboration is a key selling point for Microsoft Office: If the data already exists in one format, why re-enter it in another. Usually Office delivers nicely on its promise. Word is troublesome, however, because it doesn't offer an import feature. Using the File Open feature, you can specify...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
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- Anatomy of Word: Use Word styles to create consistent and usable documents
- Ifyou've used Microsoft Word for any length of time, you're probablyfamiliar with text formatting and making your documents look generallypresentable. It's also likely that, unless you've learned to use styles, you'vespent significant time manually formatting your documents. Also, have you evergotten completely done with a document, but the boss or...
- Technical articles 2006-06-07
- Use Word to chart the margin of error in your data
- You can analyze Word chart information without Excel. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to use Word's tools to figure the margin of error across your data without writing a complex formula. You are writing a Word report on a recent customer survey and would like to include a...
- Technical articles 2007-01-23
- How do I... Integrate Excel information and objects in Word documents?
- This blog entry was originally published as an article on March 28, 2006..You already know that you can use mini-spreadsheets in your Microsoft Word documents through the use of Word's table feature. Further, in a previous article, you learned how to use an internal Word database to create form letters,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- How do I... use Microsoft Word's Mail Merge feature to save time and effort
- This blog post was originally published as an article on September 12, 2006.Mailing a form letter to all clients living in a particular city. Creating a slew of envelopes addressed to all customers that purchased your latest gizmo. Printing labels for each employee in your organization. What do these tasks...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Anatomy of Word: A tutorial on creating and formatting tables
- If you'rea regular reader on TechRepublic, you may have seen my series covering variousfeatures in Microsoft Excel. While I am finished with that particularseries (unless you send ideas for things you'd like to see, of course!), I willbe tying this new series—all about Word—in with Excel fairly tightly.Thatsaid, I won't...
- Technical articles 2006-01-17
- How do I... Change the normal template in Word 2007 to my preferences?
- Forsome reason, Microsoft chose to ship Word with a default normal template thatused the Calibri font. I prefer to use either Arial or Times New Roman. In Word2003, you'd have to create a document with your preferences and then save it asthe normal.dotfile. In Word 2007, the process is slightly...
- Technical articles 2006-11-20
- Explore what is new and different in Microsoft Word 2007
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.At thispoint, you've probably seen the new interface being shipped with most of theindividual Office 2007 component products. If you're like me, your firstreaction was, "Whoa?"Note: Since the first beta release ofOffice 2007, I've forced myself to use all of the 2007...
- Technical articles 2007-01-26
- Word 2002's mail merge: For better and worse
- Word's infamous Mail Merge Wizard has been completely revamped in Office XP. This step-by-step guide to Word 2002's mail wizard looks at the tool's old favorites and new twists.When you roll out Office XP’s Word 2002 and start training users, you’ll want to pay special attention to explaining the ins...
- Technical articles 2001-11-13
- SolutionBase: KWord and AbiWord offer word processor alternatives for Linux users
- Sometimes individual office application alternatives are better suited for the actual job than the mighty giants. In these instances, you can find word processors not so insistent upon gulping up massive amounts of memory, space, or budget; you might even find those "little apps that could" do their job just...
- Technical articles 2007-11-01
- Anatomy of Word: Taking Word tables to the next level
- Inpart one of this three part series about Word tables, you learned the basics ofcreating and formatting tables in Word documents. You learned a lot about howto make tables look nice, how to add and remove columns and rows, and how tomake sweeping formatting changes with just a few clicks...
- Technical articles 2006-02-16
- Anatomy of Word: Use the Outline View to build complete and persuasive documents
- Haveyou been tasked with writing a lengthy report from scratch for your boss? Areyou not sure where to begin? Consider this: Attack this writing project as ifit were any project and start with a plan. For most writing projects,development of an outline satisfies the planning process. Use Word's outliningfeature to...
- Technical articles 2006-06-22
- How do I... Publish Microsoft Access check box controls to a Word document?
- This article is also available as a PDF download.Access' native controls are functional without beingoverwhelming. However, the other Office applications don't always interpretAccess controls properly. For instance, the publishing process loses check boxcontrols and their bound data when publishing an Access report to Word.Fortunately, there are a couple of easy...
- Technical articles 2007-04-11
- 10 ways you can tweak Word 2007 to fit your working style
- This information is also available as a PDF download.The latest version of Word provides a number of ways to tailor the program so that it fits your style of doing things. Here's a look at 10 techniques for customizing the look, feel, and function of Word 2007.#1: Hide the RibbonThe...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Customize Word toolbar buttons
- Here are step-by-step instructions for editing any of the buttons on your Word toolbar.In my previous article, “Use this Word macro to paste unformatted text quickly and easily,” I described how to create a simple Word macro that would paste unformatted text. To make use of this macro, we had...
- Technical articles 2001-03-01
- Word 2007: Lessons on usability
- This article is also available as a PDF download.Much ink and many bytes have been consumed in the debate ofOffice 2007's new interface. Everyone agrees that the new look and feel ofOffice is a radical departure from the interface that Office has been usingsince its inception. From Office 2000 through...
- Technical articles 2007-03-06
- 10 Word 2007 features you can skip
- This information is also available as a PDF download.Word 2007 is full of new tools and options, expanded capabilities, and significant changes. Find out what to focus on and what you can leave for another day (or month, or year...).#1: The Font dialog boxThanks to the new Themes feature (which...
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Save paper and frustration by customizing Word's Print button
- Unnecessary printing wastes paper, ink, toner, and your users' time. Here's a quick tip to help you prevent users from accidentally printing 30-page reports when all they really need are pages 10 through 12.Are your end users wasting reams of paper by clicking Word’s (or other Office applications') Print button...
- Technical articles 2002-04-16
- How do I... Transfer data from a Word form to an Access database?
- Although Access forms are powerful interface objects, your users might not be familiar with them. In some cases, Access might not be installed on every users system, or you might prefer users not have access to your database. Here is how to use a Word form to...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Eliminate clutter in Microsoft Word generated HTML files with the Office 2000 HTML Filter
- Although you can create clean HTML code to produce content for a Web site using just about any text editor, Microsoft Word doesn't do a very good job of producing efficient HTML. On the other hand, Word is very good for collaboration and is just about as universally accepted for...
- Technical articles 2004-04-29
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