• Shrink to fit in Word

    Text is one line too longIf your document is just a little bit longer than one page, how can you shrink it to fit?

    We've seen customer questions asking where this feature is in Word 2010.

    Answer: It's in the command well. And you can pluck it from there and add it to the ribbon.

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  • Word Q & A
    When it comes to questions about Word, we have an idea that what you really want is someone who comes in the box, maybe with a lab coat and a pocket protector—someone who can provide all the answers you need, whenever you need them. We asked Jonathan to stand in by phone, but he was unwilling to make his cell phone number available. Without access to Jonathan 24/7/366 (!), we'd like to try a kind of question and answer post. It might not have the answer to your question right now. Then again, it...
  • Booklets in Word 2010

    Picture of a bookletEarlier, we posted a video on making a booklet in Word 2007.

    Now, let's take a look at Word 2010...

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  • Equations in Word 2007
    My name is Jennifer Michelstein, and I'm a Program Manager on the Word team. I mainly work on academic features, like bibliographies and citations (see Joe Friend's blog ) and equations. In Word 2007, we took a ground-up approach to creating a new set of tools for editing and displaying equations. Here's a brief highlight of what's cool about the new Equation Builder: Equations are regular Word text (not objects), so they're integrated with regular Word formatting. High-quality display and typography...
  • Equation Numbering
    In this post, I'm going to talk about equation numbering, one of our most highly-requested features. Setting up your equation numbering for easy one-click entry takes a few steps, so bear with me. You have to go through this process only once, and after that, you'll be able to insert equation numbers with just one click. Feel free to read the steps below, watch the video demos instead, or do both! Step 1: Insert a 3x1 table. Your equation numbers can go in the leftmost or rightmost column, and your...
  • Final paper time
    With mid-terms, exams, and most importantly, final papers coming up, I wanted to drill into some of the capabilities that might help student readers with their workloads. Citations, equations, and the like saw some pretty cool changes in 2007. References Tab The References Tab of the ribbon is kind of like a one stop shop for any true academic. You can see that everything lives here from the ability to quickly create a table of contents to putting in citations. I know that when I was in college,...
  • Bibliography & Citations 101
    Quick Introduction A couple of weeks ago we posted on bibliographies and citation, and it quickly became the most commented post we've ever had. Looks like we left a lot of questions unanswered! As a result, I'm going to create a series of posts which will (hopefully) address some of the questionsaround how to create a custom bibliography style in Word 2007. For starters, here are a few important directories to know about: The bibliography sources you create are all listed in the following file:...
  • Word 2010 Beta is Available
    We are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Word 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for you to download at www.microsoft.com/2010 . We've talked in a bit of detail about the goodness of Word 2010 in these posts , and our friends in marketing put together a handy top 10 list here . In addition to these new features and experiences you'll find a lot of fit and finish, performance, and stability improvements...
  • Shortcuts for getting the filename and path into your document

    The button option for recording a macroOn my post about how to add the file name and path to a header or footer, Steven asks a good question:

    "Is there a way to save this into a shortcut for future use?"

    I've found a few ways to do this...

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  • Word video: Convert a table to text

    In Microsoft Word, you can convert a table into text, and vice versa. In this video, you'll learn how to change names and addresses in a table into a list separated by commas.   

    If you just want the text version of the instructions, read the full post.
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