By Diane Ross | November 23, 2011 Some users are reporting Office for Mac Word 2011 is slow to open after upgrading to Lion. The following tips have help users.
Delete duplicate fonts installed by Office 2011: The following fonts in the Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder are duplicated in Library/Fonts with a newer version of the same font. Remove these fonts in Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder. Font Book isn’t smart, it will delete the duplicate you haven’t been using even if it is an older version)
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By Diane Ross | September 21, 2011 Many of you are famililiar with Bend Word to Your Will by Clive Huggan and have been asking for an updated version. Clive has provided us with Migrating from Word 2004 to Word 2011: retrieving the smart bits as he continues to work on Bend Word to Your Will for Office 2011.
“Migrating from Word 2004 to Word 2011: retrieving the smart bits” is Clive’s notes on how he recovered his favorite time-savers that weren’t in . . .
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By William Smith | June 26, 2011 MacTop@officeformac.com asks:
How to remove a stubborn line in Word 2004?
It is not a page break or a table border or a format style. it is a solid thin line that goes all across the page horizontally and a bit beyond the page borders on the left and right. If I place the cursor over it, it becomes an up-down scrolling icon. If then I click and drag and drop, an extra space is . . .
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By Diane Ross | May 29, 2011 Jim Gordon, Microsoft Macintosh MVP and co-author of Office 2011 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies created toolbar for Word 2011 that includes frequent commands. To download and for more info, visit Jim’s site.
By Diane Ross | February 6, 2011 If you miss the dialog box and the quick switch to search and replace in Word 2011 fortunately, it is still there as Advanced Search.
Here is how to recreate the old default Key Shortcut Command-F:
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By William Smith | February 6, 2011 Microsoft Word users who have upgraded to Office for Mac 2011 may notice that suddenly they are unable to print pictures they’ve inserted or pasted into their Word documents. Or they may notice that files that they created and printed just fine in Word 2008 no longer print with their pictures when opened in Word 2011. Text doesn’t seem affected.
This problem is the result of an undocumented feature change in Word 2011. Although Word . . .
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By Diane Ross | January 7, 2011 Mac MVP James Gordon has posted directions on how to convert old Word (.doc) files to (.docx) files using an Automator workflow.
What does this converter do?
You choose one (.doc) file, several (.doc) files, or an entire folder filled with (.doc) files and the converter will save a copy of each Word file in standard open XML file format, better known as the “new” (actually more than 5 years old now) Word (.docx) format. . . .
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By William Smith | November 7, 2010 Word 2011′s ribbon may appear to be locked to a default set of tabs and functions but it’s actually more customizable than its sibling applications Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Users can choose whether or not to display the ribbon at all, view tabs or rearrange tabs. Behavior between each Office 2011 application is inconsistent, so some settings need to be accessed in different ways.
Word 2011′s default ribbon
When opening a new Word document, . . .
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By Michel Bintener | October 16, 2010 Simple signatures
In Outlook 2011, signatures can be created via Outlook>Preferences. Click on the Signatures icon, and a new window will open.
Click on the plus (+) symbol in the lower left corner to create a new signature.
You can type your text into the signature pane on the right. Note that there is neither ribbon nor formatting toolbar here; any formatting will have to be done via the Format menu, which offers a number . . .
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