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Unprotecting a Word 2003 Form in Word 2007

2009-11-14T01:04:00-08:00

Many people, as they move from one version of Word to another, need to grapple with how to accomplish familiar tasks in the new environment. In no instance is this need more pronounced than in Word 2007. In this tip you discover how you can modify forms you protected originally in Word 2003.

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Inserting the Name of the Last Person to Save the Document

2009-11-14T01:03:00-08:00

Who saved the document the last time? Word keeps track of that information, and you can insert the person's into the document itself.

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Backing Up Your Custom Dictionaries

2009-11-14T01:02:00-08:00

When you work with the spelling checker quite a bit, you eventually end up with a sizeable custom dictionary. You might want to back up that dictionary for some reason, but not know where to find it. Here's what you need to do.

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Hiding Macros

2009-11-14T01:01:00-08:00

Don't want a particular macro to be visible in the Macros dialog box? Once you understand the criteria that Word uses when determining which macros to display, you can use this understanding to your benefit. This tip examines three ways you can keep your macros out of the dialog box.

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Help Wanted: Keyboard Changes to Unwanted Foreign Language

2009-11-14T01:00:00-08:00

Why does Word all of a sudden change the keys to, I want to say, French lettering? For example, without warning when I press the question mark I'll get an "e" with an accent, and the "~" (tilde) produces a "#". All of the keys seem to be remapped to a foreign language, and I don't understand why. The only way I know to stop it is to close the document and open it again. Ideas?

-Erica Ruby

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Help Wanted: Using Find and Replace to Change Text Case

2009-11-14T01:00:00-08:00

Recently I wanted to find words with an initial capital letter and change the initial capital letter to lowercase. Using wildcards, I wrote a Find string that correctly found capitalized words. However, I was unable to figure out how to change the initial capital to lowercase. I thought of using a Replace string, but I didn't know how to create one that would do that. How can I make the change?

-David Ferrier

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Displaying Properties Dialog Box in a Macro

2009-11-07T01:04:00-08:00

Word keeps track of identifying and statistical information about a document and makes that information available in the Properties dialog box. If you want to display that information within a macro, then you may be at a loss as to how to do it.

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Inserting a Document's Location

2009-11-07T01:03:00-08:00

Once you save a document on disk, it is stored in a particular folder (or location) on that disk. You may want that location to appear somewhere in your document. You can use the FileName field, discussed in this tip, to dynamically add that information.

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Centering a Paragraph with the Keyboard

2009-11-07T01:02:00-08:00

Need a quick shortcut that you can use to center your paragraph between the margins? The answer is here.

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Repeating In a Macro

2009-11-07T01:01:00-08:00

Macros are often used to process information stored in documents. Usually the processing involves some sort of iterative action within the document, such as doing a search and every time the searched-for item is found, perform a task. Understanding how to perform this type of repeating can be very powerful.

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