How to enable Save All button in Word 2007/2010

January 5, 2011 0 comments

If you work with several Microsoft Word documents simultaneously, switching to each one of them to save them could be both a pain as well as time consuming. However, there is an alternative. You can enable a Save All button which when clicked will save all the open documents. Here are the steps: Click on [...]

Automatically paste text with no formatting in Word 2007/2010

December 12, 2010 0 comments

Typically when you copy some text from a webpage or any other application and paste it in a Word document, the formatting is retained. This might be ok in some cases. But more often than not, it would be preferable to lose the formatting as you would not want the pasted text to disrupt the [...]

How to change the default file type for Word 2007 and Excel 2007

November 26, 2008 1 comment

You might already be aware that Microsoft Office 2007 applications like Word 2007 & Excel 2007 use a different file format than the earlier versions. While the earlier versions of Word and Excel used the file extension .doc and .xls respectively, Office 2007 uses the .docx and .xlsx file extension. However, both Word 2007 & [...]

Word 2007 tips to make you more productive

May 15, 2008 1 comment

Here are a few tips to make you more productive with Word 2007. Compare docs the smart way You don’t need two windows to compare documents in Word 2007. Go to Review > Compare, and click Compare one more time. Enter two document names and you’ll see the difference. Look for private data Before sending [...]

Exploring the insides of a .docx word document

February 25, 2008 2 comments

Did you know that when you save a file in Word 2007′s default .docx format, what you are actually saving is a compressed (or zipped) file containing several different XML documents. The earlier versions of word (.doc) were in binary format. The .docx documents tend to be much smaller than their older counterparts.

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