Balloons may bring back childhood memories of summer fun, but they're also a useful feature in Microsoft Word 2007. These particular balloons don't float, but they give you a way to add helpful ...

Whether you've inherited a Microsoft Word 2007 document from a previous executive or are editing something an employee created, reformatting the document back to the original Word styles doesn't have ...

Find your favorite Word 2003 commands in the new Word 2007 interface. Editor’s Note: These charts accompany our main story, “Word 2007 Cheat Sheet.” Click through to that story for detailed ...

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

How do I... Change the normal template in Word 2007 to my preferences? On the Page Layout tab note that the default the Margins are set at one inch from all four ...

Two leading academic journals have said they will not accept manuscripts written in Microsoft's Office 2007 suite. The decision was made because the latest version of Word is no longer compatible with ...

Every few years, Microsoft updates the file format used by Word, creating untold havoc in the process. So what happens if, say, a client sends you a Word 2007 file and you're still plugging along with ...

Joe Friend, a lead program manager (Microsoft's term for a person who creates the specifications for software that programmers implement) has posted an entry on his blog regarding an interesting new ...

Chris: I recently started a new job and most of the documents that I work with are Word 2007 files. Nearly all of them open without a hitch, but there are a couple that will not open. I think they are ...

The US Court of Appeals has ordered Microsoft to drop support for editing Custom XML in Word, essentially stopping the company from selling current versions of one of its flagship products and ...

Changing the default printer driver to PDF lets files created in Word 2010 format properly in Word 2007, but the only permanent solution is to revert to Word's old default format. Dennis O'Reilly ...

I seem to find things by pure accident, and same with in this instance. The ruler in Word 2007 is a confusing piece of machinery which most lay-people can't get their heads around. I, after many years ...