MS Word 2007 Trick: How to Use Quick Parts

001You can never get enough of Microsoft Office products. With the advent of the 2007 version, things have gone more complicated and more diversified than ever before. People complain that they are not being able to use simple things effectively and that is not at all a fault in this oceanic features of Microsoft Word 2007. Sometimes you need to reuse a pre-formatted portion of a document. For instance you can use Quick Parts to insert fields from Document Properties like footers with page numbers, tables, or even a cover page. But how can you do that?

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How To: 5 Extremely Easy Ways to Convert a Word Document to a PDF File

There have been times when we needed a PDF file to edit. So we have converted that to a word document with the help of hundreds of free software across the internet. But what if you need a word document to be converted to PDF? If you love to read through the computer screen then PDF is always the best option. So is it for print-outs. Here are 5 easy ways to let you convert a word document to a PDF file format.

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Google Docs Moves Closer to Microsoft Word with Fixed Width Page View aka Print Layout View

One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display. When the was printed out or sent to another medium where the width was sized down to something reasonable, you may be in for a surprise. Google introduced "Fixed Width Page View" which is very similar to Microsoft Word's Print Layout view. This brings Google Docs much closer to Microsoft Word. However there is still a small niggle but with a simple solution.

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