Written by The New Paperclip on September 29, 2006 – 8:36 pm
Lets have a deep and meaningful look at how we make changes to the page layout in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Where do you find all the Page Layout buttons?
Simply click on the “Page Layout” tab in the new Ribbon menu system. By clicking on the Page Layout tab, the Ribbon displays all the functionality you […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 26, 2006 – 9:16 pm
A number of people have asked me…
The New Paperclip… I made a big mistake, now how do I undo my changes in Word 2007?
Thanks for the questions… yes the Undo command has moved a little from previous versions of Word. You can now find Undo (as well as Redo and Repeat) in the Quick Access […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 26, 2006 – 9:00 pm
Does the Word 2007 Splash Screen distract you too much when you are waiting for Word to load? There is a solution.
Create a shortcut on your desktop (right click on the desktop, go to new, and select shortcut).
Type the full path of Word 2007 on your computer (the default is probably “c:\program files\microsoft office\office 12\winword.exe”
After […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 26, 2006 – 8:37 pm
Do you find that the Ribbon is gets in the way every now and then, and steals valuable screen realestate? Here is a simple solution.
To minimise the Ribbon, simply double click on the tabs above the ribbon. This will minimize the ribbon to just the tabs. Instead of double clicking, you can use the keyboard shortcut […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 26, 2006 – 8:30 pm
To insert a page number into your Word 2007 document, you have two options
1) Double click where the header, or footer is on your document. This will activate the Header & Footer Tools Design tab in the Ribbon. Then, Page Number should appear as one of the features available. Click on the Page Number drop […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 25, 2006 – 10:50 pm
The first of hopefully many screencasts is now live on The New Paperclip. This Screencast is an introduction to the new menu system in Word 2007, called the Ribbon UI.
The Screencast, An Introduction to the New User Interface in Word 2007, covers the basics of what the Ribbon is, what the tabs are and why […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 24, 2006 – 1:21 pm
In my last post on Word Count in Word 2007, we saw how we can quickly find out how many words are in a document, how many words are in a selection of text, and how we can find some general statistics about the document. But what if that isn’t enough? Well, there are a […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 24, 2006 – 12:51 pm
For many, students particularly, word count is a very important feature in Word. I remember the good old days when back at Paperclip school. When completing school assignments, for some reason it not the quality of your writing that counted, but your ability to write as close as possible to 3000 words on a topic!
For those of you […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 21, 2006 – 9:06 pm
Looking to download the latest bits for Office 2007? You can download the patch for Office 2007 Beta 2 from Microsoft right now. The download is about 495MB, so you might have to grab a coffee or two whilst you wait (especially on 56K, it will take just over 20 hours to download).
Hopefully I will […]
Written by The New Paperclip on September 14, 2006 – 9:15 pm
There comes a time in everyone’s life when you don’t really have the inspiration to write pages and pages of content. Whether you have spent hours working on a fantastic document layout, or are just plain lazy, there are options to make it look like you have put extra work in
Word 2007
In Word 2007 […]