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Lord alone knows that I am forever correcting grammar in documents even though MS Word has tried to fix it for me! If you have that same complaint, I can show you how to pick and choose which grammar rules MS Word uses to check your documents! ... Follow the steps below: Click on Tools | Options. Click on the Spelling and Grammar tab. You can now select or deselect your options. You can use the drop-down list and choose to have MS Word check either Grammar Only or Grammar and Style. Click on Settings. If you select Grammar Only, you will only get the grammar portion and if you select Grammar and ... (view more)

Personally I always have my Ruler in view while working in MS Word. I would be lost without it. Most folks give me a hard time when I train them and tell them that they have to have their Show/Hide activated and their Ruler visible. They say they ... find it distracting to see all the non-printing characters and the ruler. I say to them is that they must learn to live with it so that they know what is going on in their documents. If you want to run with the big dogs and be a power user, you simply must become accustomed to having these features enabled. So now that you all have your Ruler visible ... (view more)

Somehow, some way, you have hit just the right key combination and now your Spellcheck is not checking your spelling in your documents! One should never rely primarily on MS Word's Spellcheck feature; you should also perform the old fashion ... proofread. Having said that, MS Word's Spellcheck is still pretty nifty to have and use and so you will want to rectify whatever you have done to make it stop working -- that is unless you enjoy going through a fifty page document word-by-word with a dictionary at your side. Nah, I didn't think you wanted to do that anymore than I would. If you want to ... (view more)

I received an e-mail from a reader asking for help because every time he opens a document in MS Word or Outlook, everything is underlined when he types. He wanted to know why this had happened and how to rectify the situation. My Reply: The blank ... document that you start with when you open MS Word (Document 1) and all the documents that you create by pressing the New button on the Standard toolbar or by choosing Blank Document in the File | New dialog are based upon the Normal.dot template, that also stores most of your customizations, such as changes to styles or your toolbars. If you change ... (view more)

You have just opened your new restaurant and are creating menus in MS Word. Ok, piece of cake, no pun intended. The menu that you print out looks just fine in the letter sized folders you purchased for them. But wait, you wanted to put a smaller ... version of the 'Pizza' menu inside one of those smaller acrylic holders to place on the tables. You could use a photocopier and reduce the document...but then the print would be so small that no one could read it without a magnifying glass! There has to be a way to do this. There certainly is a way to do it in MS Word and it is relatively painless. ... (view more)

Recently a reader wrote to me with an query about AutoComplete in MS Word. Below is the query: "To insert today's date (and/or time) in Word 2007 you are supposed to be able to type the first four characters of the month and AutoComplete will assist ... you. This does not work for me. It is like AutoComplete is not tripped in my Word 2007. Also, when I click on Insert I find nowhere to insert the date from. I have to admit I am a fish out of water with MS Word 2007." -- Mark My reply: Well Mark, you are not the only person who feels like a fish out of water with this newest version of Word but ... (view more)

A reader recently wrote me asking, "What are the main uses of Outline View in MS Word? " My reply: I wrote an article on this subject in January for Infopackets and I am going to redo it just for that reader! Using MS Word's Outline View is just ... wonderful for very long documents and can save you oodles of time. Why? You should be familiar with MS Word's styles and headings and make use of them. If you do that, Outline View will allow you to view all of your Headings collapsed to any heading level you desire. Using Outline View is an excellent method to get to a section in your document very ... (view more)

Wouldn't it be annoying to make lots of changes to a picture and save it and then you discover that it isn't what you wanted at all after you're finished? Well the good news is that in Word 2007, it is possible to preview a change before you ... actually apply it. Suppose you would like to see how your photo will look with rounded corners. Follow the steps below to discover how to accomplish this task: Launch MS Word if it is not already open. Click the photo that you would like to enhance to select it. Under Picture Tools, click the Format tab. In the Picture Styles group, click the down arrow ... (view more)

Using MS Word for your correspondence is usually so easy you don't even have to think about it. Some folks actually make it easier for themselves by using their Outlook Address Book. When you write letters in MS Word, Outlook automatically inserts ... the country that matches your computer's regional settings in the Country/Region field for that record. As a result, when you click the Insert Address button in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box and choose Outlook as your Address Book, Word automatically inserts the full address, including whatever country is in the Country/Region field. This has ... (view more)

Philip recently wrote to inquire: I would like to ask if it is possible to still send a fax through MS Word 2007 without actually having to connect to the Internet because since I upgraded to MS Office 2007, the option that used to allow me to send ... faxes through Word 2003 is no longer available. I hope you can help. My Reply: You can easily send faxes from your computer instead of a stand-alone fax machine and you can indeed send a fax using Microsoft Word using your modem instead of the Internet Follow the steps below to fax with MS Word 2007: Open your document in MS Word. Click the Office ... (view more)