How to Use Microsoft Word 2007 Online

1. Log into the Office online website. If you don't have a login, register at the site for a free account. Once you have logged in, click on the 'Word' icon in the 'Create a New Document Online.' At the 'New' prompt, enter the name for your new Word document. Click on 'Save.'
2. Use the new document that opens. Notice it uses the ribbon interface. Use the 'File' tab to save and share your newly created document. Use the 'Home' tab to format your document. Use the 'Insert' tab to add images, tables, clipart or hyperlinks. Lastly, use the 'View' tab to modify your document view.
3. Save your changes by using the 'Save' icon. It is located above the File menu. Share document with other users by using 'File' menu and selecting 'Share.' You can make this item public or privately invite others to share this file.

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How to Use Voice Recognition in Word 2007

Set Up Your Microphone
1. Connect your microphone to your computer. If your microphone requires you to install a software driver, do so.
2. Open the Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button, then 'Control Panel', then 'Ease of Access Center', then 'Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard', then 'Use Speech Recognition'.
3. Click 'Set Up Microphone' and follow the instructions.
Take The Tutorial And Train Your Computer
4. Open Speech Recognition, as above.
5. Click 'Take Speech Tutorial' and follow the instructions.
6. During the Tutorial, your computer will learn to recognize your voice and manner of speaking. You can improve its accuracy by further training it. To do so, open Speech Recognition, click 'Train your computer to better understand you', and follow the instructions.
Using With Microsoft Word
7. With Speech Recognition running, say 'Open Word' to start Microsoft Word.
8. Use the methods you learned during the Tutorial to operate Word.
9. Save your document and close Word.

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How to Remove Word 2007 Metadata

1. Click 'Start,' 'All Programs,' 'Microsoft Word 2007' to open the program, if it is not already open.
2. Click on the Windows button in the upper left-hand corner of the application window and click 'Open.' Locate and double-click on the Word document you want to remove metadata from.
3. Click on the Windows button again and select 'Prepare,' then 'Inspect Document.'
4. Click the 'Inspect' button on the 'Document Inspector' box. Click on the 'Remove All' button next to the wording 'Comments, Revisions, Versions, and Annotations' and 'Document Properties and Personal Information.'
5. Click 'Close.' Your document's metadata is now removed.

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Microsoft Word 2007 Mail Merge Tutorial

1. Ensure that your data source contains all of the information you need. Save any changes to the data and close that program or file.
2. Open a new, blank Word document. Go to the 'Mailings' tab of the ribbon. Click 'Start Mail Merge' in the 'Start Mail Merge' group. Select 'Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard.' The 'Mail Merge Wizard' opens in the task pane on the right side of the window.
3. Select the type of document to which you want to merge your data under 'Select Document Type.' You can choose 'Letters,' 'Email Messages,' 'Envelopes,' 'Labels' or 'Directory,' which creates a directory of names and phone numbers as a new Word document. Click 'Next.'
4. Choose 'Use an Existing List' under 'Select Recipients' if you want to use an Excel worksheet. Click 'Browse,' select the workbook containing the data you want to use and click 'Open.' Choose 'Select from Outlook Contacts' if you want to use information from Outlook. Click 'Choose Contacts Folder.' Select the folder containing the data you want to use and click 'OK.' Click 'Next.'
5. Enter the merge fields you want to use, such as an address block or names and telephone numbers. Go to the 'Mailings' tab and click 'Insert Merge Field' in the 'Write and Insert Fields' group. Click 'Update' if you are creating labels. Click 'Next' to preview the merged document.
6. Click 'Next' to complete the mail merge. Select the 'Edit' link if you want to edit individual labels, letters or envelopes. Click the 'Print' link when you are ready to print the merged documents. Click the 'Electronic Mail' link to send your merged messages if you are creating an email merge.

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How to Import a Word Document Into Excel?

1. Open a Word document you want to import.
2. Click the 'Microsoft Office Button.' Click 'Word Options.'
3. Click the 'Advanced' tab. Under 'Preserve Fidelity when Sharing this Document, click 'Save Data as Delimited Text File.' This feature will allow Excel to read the file you are going to import. Click 'OK.'
4. Click the 'Microsoft Office Button.' Choose 'Save as.' Under 'Save as Type.' Select 'Plain Text.' This will save the file as a .txt file. A file conversion window will appear. Click 'OK.'
5. Open Microsoft Excel.
6. Click the 'Data' tab. In the 'Get External Data,' click 'From Text.'
7. Select the file you just saved in step 4. Click 'Open.' The Text Import Wizard will appear.
8. Select 'Delimited' under 'Original Data Type.' Click 'Next.'
9. Select the delimiter you want to use. For instance, check 'Comma' instead of 'Tab' to see how it affects the conversion. Click 'Next.' Click 'Finish.'
10. Click in the first cell (A1) in Excel. Click 'OK' to import the data.

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How to Edit PDFs for MS Word 2007

1. Navigate to PDF to Word Converter. Click 'Choose File' under 'Select PDF to Convert.' Double-click the PDF file you want. Click 'DOC,' under 'Convert PDF file to.' Type in an email address on the right and click 'Convert' to send the new DOC file there.
2. Visit PDF to Word. Click 'Choose File' to select the PDF you want. Click 'Convert and download' to edit and change the file to DOC and download it.
3. Download and install Quick PDF. Click the 'Add PDF file' button in the program. Click 'Start Conversion' to convert to DOC.

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How to Do Table Calculations in Word 2007

1. Open the Microsoft Word 2007 document. Locate the Word document on the hard drive and double click on the file icon.
2. Create the table in Microsoft Word 2007. Click on the 'Insert' tab from the main menu. Then select 'Table' and choose the appropriate size of the table.
3. Enter the column titles, row titles and figures for the table. Label each column and row appropriately and enter the numbers for the table calculations. Be sure to leave a blank table cell to place the calculations in.
4. Understand the row and column numbering system. In order to compute the numbers in the table one must understand that the columns are referred to as letters and rows are numbers. Therefore, the first cell in the table is A1 and the cell to the right is B1. The cell below A1 is A2. These are the references, which the column and row calculations are based upon.
5. Place the cursor in the column cell where the computation will occur. Next, select 'Layout' from the main menu tabs. In addition, from the layout menu choose the 'Formula' button.
6. Type in the particular calculation in the designated formula box. For example if a user has numbers in the A2 and A3 box and wants them added together, simply type '=A2+A3'. The default formula is the Sum function formula.
7. Know the basic formula symbols. For addition it is '+', for subtraction '-', for multiplication '*' and for division '/'.

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How to Cross Out Words on Microsoft Word

1.
Highlight the word you wish to cross out. To do this, place your cursor at the beginning of the word, hold down your left mouse button, move the cursor across the word and then release the button.
2.
Click on the 'Format' option in the menu bar at the top of the screen, and then click on the 'Font' selection in the drop-down menu that appears.
3.
Place your cursor on the highlighted word, and press the right button of the mouse. Click on the 'Font' selection in the menu that opens, and it will take you to the same place that the instructions in Step 2 took you.
4.
Check the box next to 'Strikethrough' to cross out your highlighted word.
5.
Click 'Double strikethrough' if you want to cross the word out with two lines instead of one. Click 'OK' to complete the command and close the menu.

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How to Read Aloud in MS Word

1. Launch Microsoft Word.
2. Click 'File,' then 'Options.'
3. Click 'Quick Access Toolbar' in the left pane or 'Customize Ribbon' if you want to add it there instead. Click 'Choose commands from' and then select 'Commands Not in the Ribbon.'
4. Select 'Speak' from the list and click 'Add' if you are adding to the Quick Access Toolbar. Click 'New Group' or 'New Tab' if you are adding it to the Ribbon, then click 'Add,' then 'OK.'
5. Click the 'Speak' button once you have typed something to hear your work read aloud.

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How to Type an Umlaut in Microsoft Word

1. Insert the cursor where you want to type an umlaut in an open Word document.
2. Press “Ctrl-Shift-;” and then type the vowel over which you want an umlaut to appear. This will insert the lowercase version of the vowel with an umlaut over it.
3. Press “Ctrl-Shift-;" and then press “Shift” and the vowel requiring the umlaut. This results in an uppercase umlauted vowel.

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How to Disable Document Recovery in Word

1. Open Microsoft Word and click the "Office" button located at the top of the page.
2. Select "Word Options" from the menu that opens. You can change default Word settings here.
3. Click "Save" from the list of tabs to view document recovery information.
4. Uncheck the box next to "Save AutoRecover information every 10 minutes."
5. Click "OK." Document recovery is now disabled for Word.

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How to Remove Hyperlinks in Open Office

1. Launch the OpenOffice document that contains the hyperlink you want to delete.
2. Right-click the hyperlink then click "Character" from the pop-up menu. Select the "Hyperlink" tab and delete the URL.
3. Alternatively, highlight the hyperlink text and click the "Format" menu on the top. Click "Default." All the hyperlinks are deleted.

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How to Convert a PDF to OpenOffice 3.0, the Free Microsoft Office Alternative

1. Download the Oracle PDF Import Extension from the extensions page of the OpenOffice.org website (link in Resources). Double-click the file that downloads, then click "OK" when asked if you want to install the extension. Click "Accept" on the license-agreement screen to install the extension, then click "Close" after the installation process completes.
2. Launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, then click "File" and select "Open." This opens your PDF file in the Draw component of OpenOffice.org.
3. Click "File" and select "Save As." Type a name for the converted file next to "File Name" and select a destination to store the file. Select the format that you want to use for the conversion from the "Save As Type" drop-down list. The default setting is the ODF Drawing (ODG) file format, but you can select "OpenOffice.org 1.0 Drawing (SXD)" if you need the file to have compatibility with OpenOffice.org 1.0.
4. Click "Save" to convert your PDF file to the OpenOffice.org format.

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How to Change the View Format of Microsoft Word 2007

1. Open a document in Microsoft Word. Click the "View" tab from the menu at the top of the page. Under "View," you can zoom in or out, enable macros, or change the view format of the document.
2. Look for the "Document Views" section in the sub menu that opens. There are five ways you can view a Word 2007 document: Print Layout, Full Screen Reading, Web Layout, Outline, Draft.
3. Hover over each different document view to read a description of the format.
4. Change the format by clicking one of the view types. Some view formats take away editing options; simply click "Close" to return to the default view.

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How to Install Spell Check on Microsoft Word

1. Open Microsoft Word program on your computer.
2. Click the 'Options' heading and 'Tools.'
3. Click the 'Spelling and Grammar' tab.
4. Uncheck or deselect the 'Do not check spelling or grammar' option. Word documents will not be checked if this option is selected.
5. Click 'OK.'
6. Click on 'Tools' and 'Language' to ensure the language is set correctly in Microsoft Word.
7. Click 'Select Language.'
8. Click your language from the list that appears. The 'Detect language automatically' box should be checked. Make sure the 'Do not check spelling or grammar' box is not checked.
9. Click 'OK.'

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How to Import Multiple Word Documents Into One File

1. Click the 'Start' button and type 'Word' into the Search box. Click the 'Microsoft Office Word 2007' icon that appears.
2. Click the 'View' tab, then click 'Outline' to open Outline View. Click 'Show Document' in the 'Master Document' section of the toolbar. Click 'Insert.'
3. Navigate to the first document you want to import. Select the Word document file, then click 'Open' to import it.
4. Click 'Import' again. Add the second document; repeat the process for all the Word documents you want to import.
5. Click 'Close Outline View.' Click the Office button, then 'Save As.' Type a name for the file and click 'Save.'

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How to Permanently Change Word 2007 Defaults

1. Open the font options by clicking on the small box with an arrow inside it found at the bottom right corner of the font tab on the tool bar in Word 2007.
2. Change the font settings to your specificity - change the font, font style, size, color and effects. Click the 'Default' button located on the bottom of the page to set your changes as the default for the program.
3. Click the small box with an arrow inside at the bottom right corner of the paragraph tab on the tool bar to open the paragraph settings.
4. Change the paragraph settings to your specificity - change the alignment, indentation and spacing. Click the 'Default' button located on the bottom of the page to save your changes as the default for the program.

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How to Create a Book Format in Word

1. In Microsoft Word, select the 'Page Layout' tab.
2. Click 'Margins' in the 'Page Setup' group.
3. Select 'Mirrored.'
4. Click 'Custom Margins' to change the widths of the margins. Enter the widths you want in the 'Inside' and 'Outside' boxes. You can also change the orientation of the pages--either landscape or portrait.
5. View the page margins by clicking 'Word Options' under the 'Microsoft Office Button.'
6. Click 'Advanced.' Under 'Show Document Content,' click 'Show Text Boundaries.' Click 'OK.' The page margins will show up as dotted lines on your document.
7. Write, edit and insert images as you would for any document to create your book.

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How to Turn Off Automatic Spelling Grammar in Word 2007

1. Click the 'Microsoft Office' button in the top-left corner of Word.
2. Select 'Word Options,' then select 'Proofing.'
3. Click the down arrow next to the current document name in the box next to 'Exceptions for.' You should see a list of open documents, including the one you are currently working on.
4. Check both boxes underneath this document name to make Word hide both spelling and grammar errors. The boxes are labeled 'Hide spelling errors in this document only' and 'Hide grammar errors in this document only.'
5. Select 'All New Documents' from the same drop-down box if you also want Word to turn off automatic spelling and grammar for all future documents you create. Click 'OK' to complete the process.

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How to Use the Spell Checker in Microsoft Word

1. Select the text you want to spell check, or place the cursor anywhere in the text to spell check the entire document.
2. Go to the Tools menu.
3. Select Spelling and Grammar. The Spelling and Grammar window opens, and Word begins spell checking.
4. View any flagged words or phrases in the upper-left window. Just above this window, you will see the reason Word has flagged this text.
5. Check the Suggestions window in the lower-left corner of the Spelling and Grammar window for correction suggestions.
6. Click the Change button to make the suggested correction.
7. Click Change All if you want all instances of this error corrected within the text that you are spell checking.
8. Enter your own change if you disagree with the suggested correction (or if there is no suggestion) by placing your cursor in the flagged text window and correcting the text as you would in any Word document.
9. Click the Change button to implement your correction.
10. Click Ignore if no correction is needed; click Ignore All to skip all further occurrences of this 'misspelling.'

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