Category: Office 2010

Using Full Screen Reading Mode

If you’re proof reading a document you probably want to get as much of it on screen at one time as you can. After all, if you’re just reading why have all those editing tools in the ribbon on display, this is where full screen reading mode comes in useful Enter Full Screen Reading view […]

Setting Up Word 2010 Autorecover

If you’ve ever been engrossed in your writing like we have, and have forgotten to save your work, only for disaster such as a computer crash or power cut to cause you to lose all your work, you’ll be pleased to know that Microsoft have included a nice little ‘Autorecover’ feature in Word 2010. This […]

Opening An Existing Word Document

Opening an existing document is probably one of the most common tasks you will perform when you’re working in Microsoft Word 2010. If you are in Windows Explorer then it’s just a simple double click on the icon for the document you want to open, and you’re done. However, there will be times when you’re […]

Saving Word Documents

Without a doubt, THE most important thing you need to do with your document is save it – after all, what’s the point of spending all that time creating something just to lose it? There are two ways to save your document – save the current document with the same name, save the current document […]

Creating A New Blank Document

One of the most basic tasks that most users will need to accomplish is creating a new document. In Microsoft Word 2010 there are three basic methods for achieving this: Creating a new blank document. Creating a new document based on an existing document. Creating a document from a template file. We will deal with […]

Document Zooming In Word 2010

Most of the time when working with a Word document you will have the document displayed at 100% zoom as this provides the best compromise between seeing as much of your document as possible, and not having the text too small. However, there are quite a few occasions where you will want to alter that, […]

Switch Off Word 2010 ScreenTips

After using Microsoft Word for a short while you will notice that most clickable buttons and actions have a small ‘tool ‘tip’ or bubble that is displayed when the mouse cursor is hovered over the button, this ScreenTip will tell you what the button is called, and in msost cases how to use the button. […]