Word 2010 features a master document feature that enables you to collect multiple Word documents into a single Word file. With older versions of Microsoft Word you may sometimes run into problems with unusually long documents. In that case it is best to split the document into multiple Word files. This creates difficulties with page [...]

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When you have made the move from older versions of Microsoft Office to Office 2007 or Office 2010, one of the first things that you notice about Word is the difference in default line spacing. By default there is more space between the lines. You change it from 1.15 to 1.0 and there is very [...]

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Sometimes when you write an article, review or letter you need to take into consideration the age and education of the reader. Your choice of words and sentence structure should reflect the audience. Your five year old nephew will thank you for it, as will the professors on your college. But how do you know [...]

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The war of the webmail is raging on with the continued roll out of Microsoft’s new Hotmail service.  Now Google is coming back with new features to it’s own GMail service, the first of which was quietly announced over the weekend. The company has added a one-click preview for the world’s most common file format, [...]

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Microsoft Word can be used to load local or remote documents. Remote documents can for instance be hosted on a network drive or removable storage device. Word users who often work with remote documents may have experienced data loss in the past if the connection to the network drive or storage device was lost while [...]

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A corrupt Word document can mean potential disaster especially in a business environment. But there are other situations where an unreadable Word document can cause lots of problems for the owner of the file. One possible option to recover the text information of the Word document is to open it in a text editor like [...]

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When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. There is a good reason for that – they are the two powerhouses in the field. Of course there are alternatives. For Windows there is Softmaker Office and Lotus Symphony. For the Mac there is iWork. For Linux there is [...]

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If you open a Microsoft Word document you will notice that it will always open with the first page of the document being displayed. That’s fine under most circumstances but could be problematic for users who work with large documents if they cannot remember exactly where they left off at the last time. Microsoft Excel [...]

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Office Web Apps could be Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs. Their intention is to offer the most popular Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for free online as web applications giving users the chance to work with new and old documents on the Internet without the need for an Office installation on the computer [...]

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