Click the graphic, and the Picture Tools Format tab lets you tweak the brightness, the color mode, and the contrast of a picture. You can also rotate it, crop it, skew its angle, add 3D effects and shadows to its borders, and convert it to all manner of shapes, such as a thought bubble, an arrow, or a star. Options for positioning an image and wrapping text around it are also front and center, which should be helpful for creating professional-looking business documents, as well as casual party invitations.
You don't get nearly the amount of control offered by Microsoft Publisher, QuarkXPress, or , but Word may do the trick for ultrabasic desktop-publishing needs. For those who don't need all the formatting choices, we're glad that Word doesn't apply a complex style to our text by default. In Word , we'd have to highlight all the text, and then Clear Formatting to remove unwanted indentations and bold letters.
You can choose from galleries of text styles, such as Emphasis, Strong, or Book Title, and easily create your own styles and set them as a default. While Corel WordPerfect has traditionally offered better features for managing longer documents, Microsoft Word has improved a bit in this regard.
For those working on a dissertation or book report, the References tab lets you manage citations and bibliographies in styles from APA to Turabian. Just click Next Footnote, and the cursor takes you there.
However, the Table of Contents feature still isn't easy to figure out. Editors who collaborate on documents with others can make use of the Review tab. The new Compare pull-down menu lets you look at two versions of the same document side by side, as well as merge changes from several authors and editors into one file.
Administrative assistants and those charged with mass-mailing tasks should find those features much easier to access than in Word Bloggers can now compose and post entries to their Web sites without leaving Word. If you deal with sensitive information--in a private diary entry, a resume, or a company financial statement, for example--Word allows more control over buried data, such as the original author's name or your supervisor's cursing comments.
Office 's Prepare options step you through inspecting that metadata, as well as adding a digital signature and encrypting a file. You'll also find some of these options under the Review tab's Protect button. However, should you plan to black out text, you'll have to turn to to make secure redactions highlighting the font in black within Word won't do it.
As integration has improved throughout Office , you can click Send from the Office logo menu to attach a Word document to an e-mail message through Outlook's composition window. A message recipient using Outlook can preview that Word document within the e-mail message pane. And if you paste an Excel chart into a Word file, just right-click the chart and select Edit Data to launch Excel in split-pane view.
When you change the source data within Excel, the chart adjusts in Word. Need to collaborate on a file with specific people or take work on the road?
At this time, you may have to e-mail those documents. Alternately, you could upload a Word file into one of the many free, served up by other companies, including Zoho Writer, which offers a free upload add-in for Word Service and support Boxed editions of Microsoft Office include a decent, page Getting Started guide. During the first 90 days, you can contact tech support for free, and help at any time with any security-related or virus problems also costs nothing.
Luckily, Microsoft's online help is excellent, although we're displeased that Microsoft and other software makers are increasingly promoting do-it-yourself assistance. We especially like the , which walks you through where commands have moved since Office You can also pose questions to the large community of Microsoft Office users via free support forums and chats. Microsoft Office Diagnostics tool, included with the Office suites, is also designed to detect and repair problems if something goes haywire.
Conclusion Is Word worth the upgrade? If you primarily work with plain text and don't need to pretty up reports and newsletters and the like, then it might not be right for you. For our purposes as editors, for instance, Word doesn't introduce must-have goodies, although commenting commands are within easier reach. At the same time, Word handily presents options for footnotes and citations under its References tab, which researchers should appreciate.
Mail-merge functions are also easier to reach. Above all, Microsoft's new word processor is most upgrade-worthy if you want to play with pictures, charts, and diagrams in addition to text. Borders for Word Documents — Paragraph Borders. If you want to add paragraph borders to your Word document, then you need to select a border setting from the Settings column at the left side of the menu.
You then need to select a Style, Color and Width option from the center column. Free Word Borders Templates Our installation of various suites on Windows XP computers took between 10 and 20 minutes, which was quicker than prior editions of Office.
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