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• In Brief: According to the Google Operating System ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Gmail, Google, Microsoft Word, Take Another Look

  their "View as HTML" MS Word document preview to include images, which makes it a much more useful tool for a quick look at the contents of a document. Out of curiosity, how many of you are frequently using "View as HTML" or "Open as Google document" to take a quick peek at incoming docs like I am?

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• Microsoft Word Tip: Go back to where you left off in a document

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word Tip, Word, Word Processors

  plan or book chapter in Microsoft Word for weeks now, and you want to get back into it right where you left off yesterday. After you open the document, hit Shift+F5 to zip straight back to the location of the last change you made. Handy! Find this and a few other great Word tips over at the Web Worker Daily weblog. What are your favorite

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• Featured Download: Free professional legal documents in Word format

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Featured Download, Legal, Microsoft Word, Templates, Word

  of downloadable forms in Microsoft Word format. Over 300 forms can be previewed on site, downloaded individually or you can grab the entire collection as a zip archive. Thanks, Ben! Free Professional Legal Documents

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• Keyboard Shortcuts: Change Case in MS Office Apps from the Keyboard

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Formatting, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word

  case of any selected text in Microsoft Office applications between all lowercase, all uppercase or smart initial letter capitalization with the Shift-F3 keyboard shortcut. This shortcut isn't everday-useful for most of us, but if you do a lot of formatting in Word—especially from all lowercase emails or the like—the smart first

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• Reader Poll: What's Your Word Processor?

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Reader Poll, Word Processors, Zoho

  Microsoft Word—rule the word processing roost. Hit the jump to share what word processor you count on, and discuss whether you'd ever consider the move to web-based word processing in the comments.Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your

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• Microsoft Word Tip: Automatically Insert Sample Text into a Document

  Published: September 10, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word Tip, Top, Word

  You're trying out a new Word template and need to quickly stick a few paragraphs of test text in it: instead of copying and pasting the old boring "lorem ipsum," type =rand() and hit Enter. Older versions of Word will fill in a few lines of "The quick brown fox" automatically; Word 2007 will insert random text. You can even specify the

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• Featured Windows Download: Manage Hyperlinks with the Word Hyperlink Checker

  Published: September 19, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Microsoft Word, Windows

  Windows only: Freeware Microsoft Word add-in Word Hyperlink Checker manages hyperlinks in Word documents and checks for suspicious or broken links. While the internet has progressively become a more viable source of cited information in documents, Word doesn't manage links all that well by default. The add-in scans your document for links that

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• Microsoft Office patched to 11.3.8

  Published: October 11, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Word 2004, Word, Word 2004 Security, Word Vulnerability

  we could interest you in the Microsoft Office 2004 11.3.8 updater, which patches a vulnerability in Word (also present in Word 2000 and Word XP, but not in 2003 or 2007) that could allow the aforementioned overwriting. It's a 9.1 MB download or you can snag it from Office's Microsoft Auto-Update tool. Note that this is a patch only for 11.3.7,

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• How To: Recover a Deleted Word Document

  Published: October 19, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: File Recovery, How To, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word

  an accidentally deleted Word document, including searching your hard drive for Word's AutoRecover backup file: In Word, go to Tools, then Options. Under the File Locations tab, double-click AutoRecover files and make a note of that path location. Click Cancel and Close. Open up that folder in My Computer or Windows Explorer and search

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• Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Scientists, Fault, Climate, Exhibit, Changes, Waleed Abdalati, U S National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Richard Spinrad, Nasa, John Calder, Robert Sullivan, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Microsoft Word, The Associated P

  Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

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• Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Scientists, Fault, Climate, Exhibit, Changes, Waleed Abdalati, U S National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Richard Spinrad, Nasa, John Calder, Robert Sullivan, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Microsoft Word, The Associated P

  Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

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• Patch Up Office with Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: December 11, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word, Top, Windows

  only: Microsoft has just released their first service pack for Microsoft Office 2007, promising lots of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and improved security. You can grab a full list of improvements here (DOCX alert!), but the update claims to have tackled all of the top software problems as reported by the Dr. Watson bug reporting

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• Most Popular Microsoft Office Templates of 2007 [Featured Download]

  Published: December 12, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Download, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Templates, Word

  Microsoft Office Online lists its top templates and downloads of 2007, which includes fax cover sheets, resume templates, clip art, and a personal monthly budget spreadsheet, as well as software like the free (read-only) PowerPoint Viewer and Save as PDF add-in. Personally I've grabbed that "Professional design" fax cover sheet a few times

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• Collaborate on Word Documents with Track Changes [Word Tip]

  Published: December 17, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Collaboration Tools, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word, Word Processing, Word Tip

  is one of those advanced Word features most users probably don't touch, but when it comes to version control, it's really useful. How and in what context do you track changes in Word? Let us know in the comments. How to track and manage changes in a Word 2002 and a Word 2003 document [Microsoft Help and Support]Track changes while you

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• Scan Images to Text in Microsoft Word [Microsoft Office Tip]

  Published: January 9, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Tip, Microsoft Word, Ocr, Optical Character Recognition, Windows, Word

  describes how to use Microsoft Office to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—that is, recognize text inside digital images (like scanned documents). The Microsoft Document Imaging application comes with Microsoft Office (who knew?) and can grok text from TIFF images. Haven't tried this one myself, but after wrestling with various

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