by Joe Kraynak | Dec 1, 2009 | Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Troubleshooting
If you received a Microsoft Word document from a colleague or friend and can’t open it, it’s probably because it’s a docx file — the default file format starting with the release of Microsoft Word 2007. If you try to open the file in an earlier...
by Joe Kraynak | Jun 19, 2009 | Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Everyone knows you can drag over text to select it in Word, but employing a few other text-selection strategies can help you edit more efficiently. Following are my favorite text-selection tricks: Double-click a word to highlight it, including the space after it. Hold...
by Joe Kraynak | May 8, 2009 | Mail Merge, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
In my previous post, “Converting Text to a Table for a Mail Merge,” I showed you how to transform a list of names and addresses into a Word table in preparation for a mail merge. In this post, I show you how to complete a mail merge to place the names and...
by Joe Kraynak | May 6, 2009 | Mail Merge, Microsoft Word
My wife came home from a high school reunion planning meeting with a list of addresses she was to send invitations to. During the meeting, the 150 addresses were divvied up among 5 people to reduce the workload of having to manually address so many envelopes. When I...
by Joe Kraynak | Feb 20, 2009 | Document Formatting
When most people want some space between paragraphs in a Word document, they simply press the Enter key a couple extra times. While that certainly does the trick, it’s a very sloppy way of formatting and can cause all sorts of formatting problems for anyone who gets...
