15 Tips Customizing Microsoft Word 2007 To Fit Your Needs

The initial reaction to the presence of a variety of Microsoft Word 2007. Some people there who love the look of the Microsoft Office Fluent interface (the Official Name for the new design of Office 2007). However, there are also some people who complain about the differences in file formats, in which the word 2003 doc file format., Sedangkang Word 2007 format. Docx. Both files are not the same and file formats in Word 2003 can not be read by Word 2007 and vice versa. However, here I only give tips for Word 2007 alone. There are a lot of tips to customize Microsoft Word 2007 to fit the way you work or for those of you who like to write articles in Word. Here are 15 tips to customize the look, touch, and also the functions of Microsoft Word 2007:

1. Hide Ribbon




One complaint of the Word 2007 Ribbon is a little eating place. If you want to view a more extensive work, you can hide the Ribbon by pressing Ctrl + F1. Ribbon will only stay tabnya title only, so the commands you can access when you need and to restore the Ribbon to the original display, press Ctrl + F1.



2. Adjust the Quick Access Toolbar

Quick Access Toolbar (right of the Microsoft Office Button) provides access to commands you frequently use. By default, it only displays the Save, Undo, and Redo. You can change the Quick Access Toolbar so that it contains commands that routine use. For example, if a routine check spelling and grammar of documents, you may want to include the Spelling & Grammar command to the Quick acsess Toolbar. To perform the command, right click on the arrow did the Quick Access Toolbar and click on the item you want to enter or click More comand to see other options.

3. Show KeyTips

KeyTips display buttons that you press if you want to navigate Word using the keyboard. Press the Alt key to display KeyTips on the Ribbon. You will see the small letters in books on the Tabs and Quick Access Toolbar. When you press the letter for example, you press N for the insert tab, then you will see all the commands on the Ribbon has its own KeyTips. KeyTips will be displayed until you press the Alt key for the second time.

4. Customize Status Bar

You can get more information by right-clicking anywhere on the status bar. However, the real purpose of the Customize Bar is so that you can select the item you want to show the status bar pad. For example, you can add the Caps Lock to see the indicator when it is not accidentally pressed or when you forget to turn it off. To add an item that does not exist, simply click on it and to hide information that does not want to display in the status bar, click the item to menghilangjannya. Items shown are the checkmark (√).

5. Change the color of your Word 2007

There are not many color options that you can use if you want to change the overall look of the Word 2007 window. However, at least you still have a few options to change the color of Interface, click the Microsoft Office Button and click Word Options. In the Popular section, click the arrow Color Scheme, which is selected by default is Blue but you can change it to Silver or Black.

6. Modifications ScreenTip

Word 2007 has the Enhanced ScreenTip that displays information about the commands and procedures Word. When you hover over a command on the Ribbon display the Word ScreenTip to provide information about the command. By default, Word displays the information that quite a lot but you can shorten ScreenTip if you do not need a lot of information. To change the look ScreenTip, click the Microsoft Office Button and click Word Options. In the Popular section, click the arrow and select Options ScreenTip style you want.

7. Format With Themes

Thanks to the new Themes feature in Word 2007 you no longer need to adjust each effect-set when formatting the document. Theme equipped warnwa design, fonts, and effects, even has its own style, concerned. Select the Layout tab, click the arrow and select the Themes Themes yag you want from the gallery. The design will be applied automatically.

8. Show Thumbnail View

Document Map is one of the features to navigate and view documents. If you want a quick and easy way to view long documents, you would like to Thumbnail View. Thus, you can see the title of the Document Map and moved to Thumbnail View. click the View tab and click the Thumbnail in the group Show / Hide to see a miniature layout of each page. Thus, you can see how the flow of documents, checking the position of tables and the overall picture and see whether the documents prepared in print.

9. Create a Keyboard Shortcut (1)

If you're a big fan of shortcut keys, then obviously you'd love to make your own shortcuts in Word 2007. To do so, click the Microsoft Office Button and click Word Options. Under Customize, click Keyboard Shortcuts Cutomize did the bottom. In the Customize Keyboard dialog box, select the tab that contains the commands that you want to create shortcuts.

10. Create a Keyboard Shortcut (2)

Later in the Command List, select the name of the command (note that the name is a name recognized by the command in the program, rather than appearing on the Ribbon). Press the shortcut you want to use for the command, and then click to save assign shortcuts. Click Ok to close the Word Options dialog box. The new shortcut can be directly used.

11. Running Word Automatically

You can command Windows to automatically launch Word 2007 when Word 2007 Startup by copying into the Startup folder. Click, ilih Windows Start and All Programs. Click the Microsoft Office to display the program in a folder. Right-click Microsoft Office Word 2007 and choose Copy. Now point your mouse to the Startup folder in All Programs, right-click and then Select Explore. At the Startup window appears, press Ctrl + V to paste the shortcut into the folder Word 2007. Now close the Startup window. The next time you start Windows, Word 2007 will automatically run.

12. Directly Open Document

If you want Word mwmbuka one document every time a program on the run, you can use the Switch command to Word Documents members know where you want to open. First, press the Windows key + R, then type the path to Word 2007. For example, C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Office \ Office12 \ winword.exe, press the space bar and type Switch / t, followed by another space and the name of the file you want to open. If you want to run Word in this way, you can create desktop shortcuts by right-clicking the desktop, select New and click Shortcut and then enter the path and switch to the Location box in the Create Shortcut dialog box.

13. Change of Storage

You can rule Word 2007 to save documents in the selected folder by clicking on the Microsoft Office Button, and click Word Options. Click Save and the Save documents section, click the Browse button next to the Default File Location box and select the folder where you want to save the document. Click OK to save the location and close the dialog box and click OK again to return to your document.

14. Enter a Tag

By clicking on the Microsoft Office Button, select Prepare, and click Properties, then you can display the document properties and enter informasitentang documents, such as your name, title, status, and short dekskripsi. It does not matter if you have plenty of time. However, if you just want to make sure the manufacturer's name appearing on a document and want to use tags to facilitate the search, you can do quickly and easily when saving files. To enter the author's name and Tag, Tag Box Click on the Save As dialog box, and save by clicking Save.

15. Save Document As PDF Or XPS

Features Mark As Final in Word 2007 (available when you click the Microsoft Office Button, Prepare) is useful, but although you can mark a document as final, when everyone else is receiving the document, then he can copy the contents of the document and edit it as usual. So you believe that no one else to replace or alter the content formatting, then save the document as PDF or XPS.