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Adding a Table of Contents to a Word Document

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Adding a table of contents (TOC) to a Word document can make your Microsoft Word document look professional.You might want to create a report or a free e-book to give away, or maybe you are making something for your job. Either way a table of contents added to a document is a fantastic way to [...]

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How To Write Text On A Picture In Word

September 23, 2010

Back in the day when we wanted to let the world know who we thought was a “dork” or “homewrecker”, we’d break out the Sharpie and let our hands go wild on our yearbook. Nowadays, with digital cameras and the Facebook revolution, it takes a few extra steps to write “looser” on somebody’s virtual noggin. [...]

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Add a video or to word 2007 and convert it to a PDF

May 31, 2010

What do you need to embed a video into word 2007 to convert to PDF? This is an expensive process because you will need Microsoft Word 2007 and a professional version of Adobe PDF creator. You can get Word Documents converted for free on the internet but the standards are poor. It would not include [...]

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Add shortcut icons to your Quick Access toolbar in Microsoft Word 2007

May 31, 2010

 In Microsoft word 2007 there is a quick access toolbar at the top of the screen next to this symbol. See in the screenshot below. I have circled the quick access toolbar. By default the quick access toolbar has a save shortcut icon, an undo, and a redo icon. However you can add or remove [...]

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Background colors and images will not print in Word 2007

May 31, 2010

It is so annoying when you have worked really hard on a document, but when you go to print it, the background does not print. For example if you press on print preview you will immediately see your background images or colors missing from the document. However there is no need to panic, because there [...]

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Type abbreviations and use autocorrect to finish words for you

May 31, 2010

If you write all the time like me you will love this little trick. Well its not a trick, I am just using autocorrect in Microsoft Word to my advantage. I am going to show you how to make Word translate your text abbreviations you use into finished words. Yes, Word is going to finish [...]

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How to use and show all keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007

May 31, 2010

There is a great little trick that I actually discovered by accident to use keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. If you press the ALT key when you have a word document open, the shortcut keys appear over the button they apply to. Just try it for yourself. You will see that Alt-F = Office Button, [...]

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How to use a custom watermark on different pages in your document

May 31, 2010

When you add a watermark to a document in Word 2007, by default, it will be added to your entire document. Therefore if you add a watermark to your document it seems that you have no control over where it will appear. Sometimes this is not what you want. Having the words confidential or do [...]

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How to open a word document in Photoshop?

May 29, 2010

A Microsoft word document cannot be simply opened in Photoshop. Word documents are saved in .doc or .docx file formats which are not compatible with Photoshop. Photoshop deals with .psd, .jpeg, .gif, and other various image file formats. This is probably a strange tutorial as I usually talk about cutting out images using Photoshop. Free [...]

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