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Microsoft has revealed that hackers have attempted to exploit a bug in Microsoft Word. The bug was fixed in a security update last month, but the company is also concerned that some users may not have installed the update. The bug involves the way ... MS Word handles rich text format (.RTF) files. This is a format used for text documents that have a very limited degree of formatting information compared to full-blown MS Word documents. The format is most commonly used as a way of moving documents from one word processor to another without altering the text's formatting. RTF Flaw Causes Memory ... (view more)

As we reported yesterday , Microsoft has lost a federal appeal over a copyright case involving the MS Office program, MS Word. In short, Microsoft breached a patent on a technique for opening XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents in MS Word. ... What is XML? XML is something of a sequel to HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which is the language used for creating the layout of a webpage. Whereas HTML "tags" decide how text appears on screen, XML tells a computer what the text is about. This effectively turns web content into a type of database and makes it easier to organize and manipulate ... (view more)

Recently a reader wrote to me with this problem: " When using MS Word the program at times changes font size while typing an article. Thanks for your consideration. " My reply: The one piece of information that would be very helpful with this ... inquiry is missing -- namely, which version of MS Word the reader is using. Generally speaking, MS Word will not change the size of your fonts in a document unless you specifically tell it to. If you are using version 2003 or earlier, it sounds to me like you could be using a style that has a different font size or you are copying and pasting text ... (view more)

Recently a reader wrote with an inquiry regarding his missing graphics in MS Word: " I am using MS Word 2003 on a Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 machine. Until recently I was able to copy and paste a tutorial or article that contained pictures and ... text into a Word doc. Last week when I attempted to copy and paste, the text went in put not the pictures. I have done several searches (including changing word options and reducing the accelerator) but have yet to find the fix that works. " My reply:First, make sure that you are in Print Layout View. If that solves your problem, great! Secondly, ... (view more)

Not too long ago, a reader wrote to me asking if there was a way to quickly see if Keep With Next was in use in a paragraph in an MS Word document. I answered the reader with an article explaining how to have your Show/Hide feature activated to see ... the non-printing characters in a document so that you can see whether or not Keep with Next is in use. One of our cutting-edge readers has responded with a quicker, even easier method: In MS Word 2007, you can add the "Para Keep w/ Next" formatting command button added to your toolbar. If the specific formatting is in use, the ... (view more)

When you use the Caption feature in MS Word, a label and number can be assigned to each figure in your document. By default, MS Word assigns each figure a number beginning with number 1 and so on. However, if you do not want to use this number ... format for the figures, you have the option to change it. Follow the steps below to change the number format for a caption: Launch MS Word. Select the caption you want to change. Click Insert | Reference | Caption. From the Caption dialog box, click the Numbering button. Use the drop-down arrow beside Format, and select the number format you would like ... (view more)

The Work menu is one of the oldest and most obscure features supported by MS Word. The Work menu is basically a Word specific list of your favorite or most often used documents that remains hidden in the Customize dialog box until you drag it out of ... there and place it on your toolbar. The Work list will hold as many as nine document shortcuts. It is a handy place to store those documents that require regular access. Follow the steps below to put the Work menu in its place on your toolbar: Click on View | Toolbars | Customize. Select the Commands tab. Scroll to the bottom of the Categories ... (view more)

I am sure you knew that you can copy multiple blocks of text in MS Word - at least I hope I have taught you that much! But did you know that you can paste multiple blocks of text rather than the last chunk that you copied? Well guess what? You can! ... Follow the steps below to learn how: To make use of this feature, turn on the Clipboard toolbar in MS Word version 2003, or the clipboard menu in the latest version of MS Word - 2007. When you do this, you will see all the snippets that you have copied, in the order that you copied them. You can now be selective about what you pick and choose to ... (view more)