Customizing

Need to break up you document to make it more… presentable? Breaks have been a part of Word for a long time, but where are they and what do they do in Word 2007?

Keep Smart Tags from appearing in your Microsoft Word 2003 documents.

Contrary to popular opinion, Word has no integral means of automatically saving the current document, nor of backing-up the current document. What it does have is an option to save AutoRecover information after a specific and configurable interval and an option to save a backup copy of the previously saved version of the document with the default file extension of WBK (and although there is no reason to do so, Word also allows the option to change this extension to the user's choice). This is not a true backup in as much as it is not a copy of the current version of the document.

Word has no idea what the correct envelope orientation is for Epson inkjet printers. Here are a couple of fixes you could try. The first involves a simple registry hack.

The label definitions are stored in the registry in the following key ....

In the file operations windows (File > Open; File > Save) Word offers a pre-configured Places Bar with five places where you might want to store documents. These places can be personalized, and, by reducing the size of the icons, the number may be increased. Thus, for example, you might wish to add the documents folder on a local networked laptop; or, if you make frequent edits to templates, your templates folder.