• Header and footer recap

    Page x of y pages exampleHeaders and footers--and page numbers--can get tricky. That's why we've spent some time with them on this blog. But if you come to one post, you might not realize that the answer you need is already in a different post.

    I thought I'd list each of them here to help you find the information you want as quickly as possible...

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  • Get ahead of the headers and footers

    The new Get control of page numbers, headers, and footers training course can take the headache out of headers and footers. The intermediate self-paced course for Word 2010 includes video, so that you can see what's going on in real time, and a practice session.

    Start your training right away, or find out more...

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  • Move bibliography sources

    Manage Sources commandIf you add all your bibliography sources when you're writing a paper in Microsoft Word, can you export them and move them to another computer?

    This question came up recently, and here's how it works...

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  • Address labels and more

    Address labelLast week, we took a look at printing envelopes. But often people want to print labels--and then put the labels on envelopes, shipping boxes, CDs, file folders, jars of apricot jam, or whatever can be labeled.

    How you make your labels depends on what kind of label you want to make...

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  • Out in the field (code)
    When it comes to field codes, we find several different camps. First, there's the group who says, "We need more documentation, with better examples." Then, there's who says, "You don't need to know about field codes. They are so old fashioned." Another group says, "What are these funny bracket things and gray places in my document?" Finally, there is apparently a very large group of people who use Word and have never knowingly encountered a field code. Do any of these sound familiar? What is a field...
  • Word Automation Services: What It Does
    Following up on my first post about Word Automation Services, I wanted to continue by talking about the functionality offered (and not offered) by the service, how it's exposed, and the types of solutions you will be able to build on top of it. What the Service Does Functionally, the service is very simple – this is intentional, as we wanted to address the pain points that we've heard loud and clear from you over the past few years, while keeping performance and scale at the top of our priorities...
  • Word 2007’s New UI – The Ribbon
    Now that Word 2007 is out in the wild with a brand new user interface , I figured it would be good to provide a quick overview of Word's new UI—specifically the "Ribbon—and point you at some very cool tools to help you use the new UI. The Ribbon While there is a whole lot more to Word 2007's new UI, the first thing you will notice is that all of Word's menus and toolbars have been replaced with a single container that organizes Word's full feature set into a series of tabs. This container is known...
  • The Navigation Pane
    One of the Pillars of the Word 2010 vision outlined in Scott's post on Framing the Release was " Polished User Experiences ". This pillar represents a desire to dramatically improve a set of scenarios that define Word's core user experiences in terms of polish, ease of use , and responsiveness – basically, setting and holding a high bar for user experience excellence. Work that we did in support of this part of the vision isn't necessarily all new features, but is rather about looking at the experience...
  • Don’t Think, Just Right-Click
    Recently while I was tutoring my Mom and Dad on Word 2007 I blurted out: "Just right-click." The remainder of this post is part explanation, part apology, and part justification. Part Explanation While this advice may seem dismissive, I didn't mean for it to be. When we design new features, we think about the most useful places to surface that features and try to put them there. Often, the most useful place for a feature is directly on the "thing" it affects. Here's the logic: If you want to take...
  • On the gridlines

    Table gridlinesWord has gridlines in tables, gridlines on a page, and a page boundary.

    We'll cover all three.

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