Microsoft Word 2007 File Formats

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by Mark Matthews

Microsoft Word 2007 is capable of working with documents in three file formats. The native format uses the file extension ".docx". Files saved in this format can use the full range of features found in Word 2007, with the exception of macros. Any Word 2007 document which contains macros must be saved in a separate file format using the file extension ".docm".

In addition to these two native formats, Word 2007 is also capable of both opening and creating documents using the ".doc" file extension, the file extension found in previous versions of Word. Word 2007 files saved with this file extension will not have access to the full range of features found with in Word 2007. Features which have been introduced in 2007, such as Themes, will not be available in documents saved with the file extension ".doc".

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Special Symbols in Windows

We’ve published a list with some of the many Keyboard and ALT shortcuts earlier but you can’t have too many of these lists.

These keyboard Shortcuts are the most used.

FILE
Ctrl + S = Save
Ctrl + N = New Document
Ctrl + O = Open Existing Document
Ctrl + P = Print
Ctrl + W = Close

PARAGRAPH ALIGNMENT
Ctrl + L = Left Aligned
Ctrl + R = Right Aligned
Ctrl + E = Center Aligned
Ctrl + J = Justified

LINE SPACING
Ctrl + 1 = Single Line Spacing
Ctrl + 2 = Double Line Spacing
Ctrl + 5 = 1-1/2 Line Spacing

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Insert a Fancy Drop Cap Letter into Your Document.

In today’s Word Tip and Trick I want to show you how you can pimp up your Word document with a fancy drop cap letter.

A while back I showed you how to add a Drop Cap letter to your Word document. This is a simple trick for the use of normal letter. In today’s Word tutorial I’ll show you how insert a fancy Drop Cap letter. This isn’t a standard letter but a clip art object.

To Insert a fancy drop cap you’ll need to follow the next steps.

Go to the Insert Tab
And Select Clip art

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Quick Trick – Moving and Altering Words With Ease.

Today’s Word Tip and Trick is a pretty cool one. Remember yesterday that I was telling you that we talked about the ease of quickkey’s and that they are an essential part of the Office Suite. Well today I have another very cool trick.

If I’m not mistaken I’ve read about this Trick the first time on Office Users.org. Office User.org is the site of Tricia Goss and she’s amazing with Office. I’ve never spoken to her before but telling from her newsletter she’s a real nice lady too. If you are reading this you might want to investigate Office Users.org too. It’s a paid membership site but they have a very inspirational free newsletter.

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How to Insert or Type a Degree Symbol.

There are more than one ways to insert a Degree ° Symbol into your document. The Tips and keyboard shortcuts shown below will work in practically all the Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, FrontPage, InfoPath, OneNote). In this article we’ll show you four ways to Insert a degree Symbol.

1) This is the keyboard shortcut for the Degree Symbol.

The first way is probably the easiest because you only have to press and hold the ALT key while typing 0176. “ALT+0176”

2) You can also retrieve the Degree Symbol via the Symbol Command.

Go to the Insert tab.
And select Symbol

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Turn Off Automatic Numbered Lists.

Microsoft Word is a pretty nifty program, lot’s of features and cool tools to use but Word also has some pretty irritating settings. One of them is that Microsoft Word automatically assumes that when you begin a new line with a number that you are creating a numbered list. And today I want to show you how you can turn off automatic numbered lists.

To turn off automatic numbered lists you’ll need to do this:

Click on the Office button.
Select Word Options
Select Proofing
Autocorrect Options

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Select the tab AutoFormat as you tpe
And Uncheck Automtic numbered list

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Close All and Save All Word 2007 Hotkey!

Yesterday I wrote an article called Save All and Close All Commands in Word Including MS Word 2007. In this article I showed you how to add the Close All and Save All buttons to your toolbar.

But there is also a way that I didn’t think of but Erik Mulder did think of it. Erik send me an e-mail with a pointer that it is possible to add a hotkey and it works practically in the same way as yesterdays tutorial.

Follow these steps if you want to create a hotkey for the Close All and Save All commands.