Balloons may bring back childhood memories of summer fun, but they're also a useful feature in Microsoft Word 2007. These particular balloons don't float, but they give you a way to add helpful ...

Overstrike is an old printing term that usually referred to stamping a character twice in the same spot to make the character look darker, or stamping one type of ...

Reader Mary wrote in with this vexing Word 2007 problem: “When only one document is opened, saved, and then closed in Word, the entire program closes. To keep the program open after closing a document ...

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

I'm getting frustrated with Word today & hoping that there is an easy solution to what I thought would be a simple problem, but has no clear solution. There may be some completely different way of ...

Seeing a giant Word file arrive in your inbox can leave one feeling like it's the last chance to cram before a test—you just want to find the portions with relevant information in them, in context.

Students banging out their final papers this semester with Microsoft Word 2007 will be interested in this tutorial on creating and managing references, courtesy of Microsoft. The references tab on ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Keep paragraphs together, print on both sides, change the date automatically, fit more text on a page, and insert an object on its own page. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

You wouldn’t believe how often I get the same few questions about Microsoft Word. Perhaps the most common: “How do I change the line spacing?” I can understand the confusion. In Word 2003 and earlier, ...