New Office User Interface

For the 2007 release of Office Microsoft have completely redesigned the Office user interface and have done away with all the different menus and dialogue boxes in favour of a whole new interface that is commonly referred to as ‘Pick & Click’ This new Office user interface does away with all the searching through various […]

New Office File Formats

With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft have taken the opportunity to overhaul the Office file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new Office file formats are known as the Microsoft Office Open XML file formats, and are themselves derivatives of the XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats commonly used in Web applications. The […]

Easy Booklet Printing

Creating a nice looking booklet in Microsoft Word is actually much easier than people realise, but there are a few caveats that people need to be aware of before starting. Follow the simple guidelines below and you will have no trouble in producing a booklet that appears to have been professionally laid out.   A […]

Customising Word Default Settings

When you create a new document in Word, the program loads a blank template called ‘normal.dot’ which contains all of the settings such as margin sizes, fonts etc for the document to use. It is highly likely that the settings in the template supplied by Microsoft are not suitable for your purposes so you will […]