What to do about the ‘Duqu’ malware that can be sent via Word documents. There’s plenty of noise but little hard facts so far about the Duqu malware attack. At the time of writing all we know is: There’s a new Windows exploit that the ‘Duqu’ malware uses to
How to get table or other information from the net into Excel (or Word). Ever seen some data on the Internet and want to copy it for yourself? From small tables to large data chunks, there’s several ways to do it. Simple copying Almost any table or grid on a
Word’s spell check has a serious bug when it comes to symbols. Some time back we looked at the ‘Word ampersand mystery’, that’s where the spell-checker behaves strangely when there’s an ampersand in the text. It turns out to be a bigger problem involving many symbol characters. An ampersand at
At last, an easy way to find Word 2007 commands. We’re delighted to release a Word 2007 Command Finder to help you search through all 1,580 commands. Just like our Word 2010 Command Finder, we’ve taken the All Commands dialog and put them into a single, searchable list. This makes
The Comic Sans haters have risen again as a TV show is plastered with the hated Comic Sans font Stephen Fry’s latest TV show uses Comic Sans as its primary font, so the haters of the common font have risen in protest. We’ve talked about Comic Sans before. It’s not
What is there for Office users in the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire? Because there has been no mention of Office document compatibility on the new Kindles, we decided to take a look. There’s a little good news but things mostly stay the same. Document compatibility is important. Devices
Can you have a vertical ribbon in Microsoft Office? Is it possible to make the ribbon go vertically down the side of a document instead of horizontally? Back in Office 2003, it was possible to move the toolbar from the top row to any side of the Office window –
The Nook Color tablet/ereader supports an impressive list of Microsoft Office documents. Office Watch reader, Dale M writes: ” for the NookColor …. it reads natively, office documents in Office 2003 and in Office 2007 format. Works for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and maybe others. Also, PDFs display quite nicely
Word 2007/2010 Text Box is also in Excel and PowerPoint. We’ve talked a lot about the Text Box feature in Word 2007 and Word 2010. Both Excel 2007 / 2010 and PowerPoint 2007/2010 have Text Box features similar to Word. There’s no gallery to choose from, so you have to click
The full list of Word 2010 Text Box Gallery items Here’s the full list from the Text Box built-in gallery in Word 2010 and Word 2007. Insert Tab | Text | Text Box. Some people find it easier to see the entire list on a single page rather than scrolling up and
More tips and details about putting one Word document inside another. Following our article on Word linking and embedding in Office for Mere Mortals, here’s some additional tips and help to do things not allowing in the Word dialog boxes. Making it permanent For future reference you’ll want the main
How to make one Word document appear in another document by linking or embedding. A Word document can be placed inside another so it appears in the second document. This can be done as a ‘one-off’ insertion or a linking where changes to the source document automatically appear elsewhere. For
Some enhancements to our popular Word 2010 commands finder Thanks to all the Office-Watch.com readers who sent in suggestions and thanks about our Word 2010 Command Finder. We’ve acted on those comments and added a few improvements: Type in your text then press Enter to start the search. The command
In preparing the Command Finder for Word 2010, we’ve found some curious inconsistencies. In preparing the Command Finder for Word 2010 , we’ve found some curious inconsistencies. For starters, the ‘Commands not on ribbon’ list doesn’t include all the commands missing from your ribbon. For example ‘Character Border’ isn’t on
Why can’t you add repeating words or phrases to the Microsoft Word custom dictionary? Word’s custom dictionary can’t handle repeating words or phrases and it should. While we wait for Microsoft to catch up there are limited options available. Microsoft Word’s custom dictionary only lets you add single words to
OpenOffice .odt files should open with Word 2010 – but not always. Margaret H. says “I downloaded a .odt file from Wikipedia but when I tried to open it in Word 2010 all I get are errors. Even the repair option doesn’t work. I thought Word 2007 and 2010 supported
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover
Word’s spell checker has some peculiar ideas about where an & symbol belongs. Susan S. writes with a question about the Word spell checker. She’s noticed that an ampersand next to a letter doesn’t trigger a spelling error in Word. We tried it out and she’s right: An ampersand next
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
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
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’
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
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 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007. In Word 2010 there is a ‘version’ feature but it’s quite different from the feature of the same name in Word 97 to Word 2007.
