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 [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 27, 2006 – 3:47 pm
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, galleries show you what your layout, formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 27, 2006 – 3:28 pm
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 22, 2006 – 10:20 pm
You thought I was gone… think again… I am back with a new Outlook on life! I dumped my old style, bought some new fashionable glasses, and use some new fancy metal polish… it is not what you are thinking… I prefer to call myself a metrosexual paperclip! Take my Word for it. I Excel at all things Office 2007, [...]