Word Processing

Hands on: Building with Word 2003

Remove private information and add some Word 2007 tricks to the 2003 version

Hands on: Make your watermarks

Add background images to documents and find favourite features in Word 2007

Hands on: Listen, no hands

If you have trouble typing, why not speak to your word processor?

Hands on: Acrobat vs XPS

Can Microsoft’s portable format really rival Adobe’s mighty PDF?

Hands on: Word and pictures

We explain how Word can help you convey the right image

Hands on: Nested numbering

Taming automatic numbering and adding menus in Word 2007

Hands on: Customise Word 2007 ribbons

Office 2007 customisations, and find out how properties can save you time

Hands on: Use Smart Tags work in Word

Rein in Smart Tags’ random behaviour in Word and make them work for you

Review: Microsoft Word 2007

A redesigned interface and some useful new features, but power users will be left wanting

Hands on: Divide text with borders

Learn how to make borders when word processing

Ensure your words are worth it

Helpful thesaurus hints, spelling gotchas and a tour round clipart city

How to: Stop Microsoft Word’s spellchecker

Turn it off for some passages of text

Hands on: Optical character recognition

Turn a printed page into editable text

Hands on: Cut and paste in Word

Discover how to paste text without the formatting; plus shape-shifting on text boxes

How to: Automatically move a scroll bar

Scrolling doesn’t have to be a drag

Hands on: Using Google's online word processor

Explore Google’s online word processor, Truetype fonts and ‘click here’ blocks

How to show Word files in alphabetical order

Organise files by name

Hands on help: Open Office document problems

Page irritation between US and UK sizes

Hands on: Fonts of knowledge

A masterclass in using the right font to achieve the right result

Hands on help: Default to offline help in Word

Change the default to search Microsoft Word offline first, not online

Hands on help: How to adjust Word spacing

A shrinking solution to squeeze in extra lines

Hands on help: Importing documents into Word 2000

How to get the right accented characters and symbols

Hands on help: Getting pictures in Word

How to put pictures on labels quickly

Hands on help: Replacement for Ability Write wanted

Better word processor software sought

Hands on: Turning the tables

Header and footer issues with landscape tables, line spacing, plus laying out minutes