There are a few screencasts starting to appear on the Microsoft Office 2007 Developer Center.
For those of you who don’t know what screencasts are, they are basically videos showing you exactly how to do something in an application.
This screencast details exactly how to extend the Office 2007 UI by building a custom ribbon!  Great if you want [...]

Don’t like the ribbon?  Well there is a way to make Word 2007 look and feel just like the good old days back with Word 97!
If you want to throw away a decades worth of user interface innovation, check out this post from Alistair Speirs, where he talks about how you can use the Quick [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]