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Word 2007/2010: How to Ignore Spelling and Grammar

contributed by Rob Rogers on November 15, 2010 under Microsoft Word

By default, Word checks your document for common spelling and grammar mistakes. This can be a great help in writing letters and business documents, but if you use it to document programming scripts or mathematical formulas, it can be rather frustrating to have a page full of red lines all over your document due to Word seeing it as incorrect. You can ignore the Spelling and Grammar of your current document, all new documents written in a particular style, or all new documents that are created in Word.

Word 2010: Always Paste as Plain Text without Style Formatting

contributed by Lê Hoàng on October 4, 2010 under Microsoft Word

I hate that Microsoft Word always try to preserve styles when I copy and paste in text from an outside source. Instead of manually removing the extra style information within Word 2010, it is much more efficient to just remove this text formatting by default.

Word 2010: Save Documents to Display with Thumbnail Picture

contributed by Lê Hoàng on September 1, 2010 under Microsoft Word

When you have many documents in a folder, it is hard to figure out which document is the one you really want. We have all experienced this common problem. By displaying your documents with a thumbnail, documents become easier to identify.

Word 2010: How to bookmark a specified part of your document

contributed by Lê Hoàng on August 6, 2010 under Microsoft Word

When reading a long document, often it is hard to continue reading from where you previously stopped. The bookmark feature in Word 2010 can help you quickly jump to such areas of your document.

Word 2007-2010: Quickly Extract Multiple Images from Docx Files

contributed by Lê Hoàng on July 21, 2010 under Microsoft Word

Using this quick trick, you can extract all the images from a .docx file at once!

Word 2010: Remove Background from Inserted Images to Better Match Your Document

contributed by Rob Rogers on July 21, 2009 under Microsoft Word

Quite often, an image you’ve chosen to include in your document has a background that just doesn’t look right. Word 2010 allows you to remove the background without having to use a third party graphics application.

Word 2010: Create and Insert Screenshots into Your Document

contributed by Rob Rogers on July 20, 2009 under Microsoft Word

One of the new features in Microsoft’s Word 2010 is the ability to take screenshots using Word itself, no need for additional software. You can automatically grab a screenshot of an open window or highlight the specific area you wish to capture.

Word 2007: Shrink Your Document by One Page

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 18, 2008 under Microsoft Word

It always bothers me when I am preparing a Word document and the last page contains only a couple of sentences, it seems like such a waste of the page. Word can attempt to shrink the document by one page by slightly reducing the size and spacing of the text in the document.

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