Why is an obviously incorrect word not picked up by Word’s spell checker? Susan S. complains that her copy of Word has phrases like ‘ Thisis ‘ which aren’t showing up as a spelling error. In other words there is no red squiggly line when there should be. We’ve had questions like this before. There […]
How to quickly change to ‘Text Width’ view in Word. A useful view for Word documents is Text Width view but it’s not on the toolbar or ribbon so how can you switch to it quickly? Text Width view is good because it puts text across the available screen width without margins. That’s especially handy […]
Microsoft drops their own blogging service, what does that mean for its Office integration? Microsoft has announced that they are phasing out their ‘Windows Spaces’ blogging service in favor of WordPress.com Strictly speaking Microsoft hasn’t made that announcement; it was a carefully worded blog post. In the usual ‘PR Speak’ approach they said that Microsoft […]
An overview of the Print options in the new Backstage view. In Office 2010 the Print tab is moved to the File menu aka Backstage. Available Printer options, page settings and page preview have all been grouped together in one place and made more obvious. The Print pane is much the same across all Office […]
Just because it has the same name doesn’t mean Word 2010 has the same ‘version’ feature. Since Word 97 there has been a useful ‘versions’ feature which lets you save different variations or snapshots of a document within the single file. For no apparent reason this feature was summarily dropped in Word 2007. The only […]