Microsoft Word
Using Microsoft Word to quickly toggle capitalization of text blocks
Have you ever wondered why the Caps Lock key exists? It doesn’t at all seem like it’s useful, at least to most. The Caps Lock key finds it’s origins from the early physical typewriters, but it’s functionality wasn’t nearly as annoying as it is today on the computer. On the typewriter, the key was not [...]
Recovering a damaged or corrupted Word document
If you’ve used Microsoft Word enough in your lifetime you’ve likely encountered a document that was fine yesterday only to find out today it’s completely trashed. Word documents, more than any other binary file type in my experience, have a propensity to become corrupt and generally unreadable to the user. Rarely can the cause of [...]
Adding Version Control to your Documents in Word 2007
If you are a power user in Microsoft Word you’ve likely suffered at least one catastrophic failure that resulted in hours of lost editing. Moving forward, you’ve learned from that tragic event and now you save early and save often. You may even take it one step further and create copies or iterations of your [...]
Shrink Those Word Documents
Those of you that do a lot of editing on large Word documents loaded graphics, charts, or other objects have probably noticed that the document file size can quickly become unwieldy. The proper method when adding pictures is to actually do so via the Insert mechanism rather than the typical Copy/Paste. While the end result [...]
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