Word 2007
Cropping a picture to a shape
It is worth to know that, instead of cropping a picture to a conventional rectangle, you can crop it to a
circle, a triangle, an arrow, or even a thought bubble:
Sorting a table
If you use tables in Word, sometimes you need sort it by one, two, or three columns.
Working with the property variables in the document
To make documents easier to identify via searches, and to help the Windows Indexing Service to store the
appropriate key information about documents, you can enter property information.
Modifying an Organizational Chart
How to create an organizational chart in Microsoft Word 2007 see Using the Organizational Chart Tool.
This tip is about how to change or modify an organizational chart in Word.
Adding shapes into an Organizational Chart
How to create an organizational chart in Microsoft Word 2007 see Using the Organizational Chart Tool.
This tip is how to add a new shape an organizational chart in Word.
Hiding pictures
Including a large number of in-line pictures in your documents slows down Word's performance. You can
improve performance by replacing actual pictures with picture placeholders.
Using the Organizational Chart Tool
In most cases, it is recommended to use Visio to create diagrams, but in some simple cases, such as company
organizational charts, you can successfully use the built-in Word tools.
Viewing document and readability statistics
Writing simple and easy to understand documents is a unique ability that lays somewhere between art and
science. Microsoft Word can help you to improve you writing skills by providing readability statistic
metrics.
Printing AutoText entries
To help you manage your AutoText (Building Blocks) entries, you can print the names and contents of
AutoText (Building Blocks) entries attached to the current document.
Using manual hyphenation
With manual hyphenation, you have more control over what is hyphenated and how it is hyphenated. You can
select which parts of the document are hyphenated and where a hyphen appears in specific words. This is a
huge hassle for a large document, but it does allow you to do a better job than Word might do automatically
- Word sometimes hyphenates words in positions that don't look good.