Balloons may bring back childhood memories of summer fun, but they're also a useful feature in Microsoft Word 2007. These particular balloons don't float, but they give you a way to add helpful ...

Word 2007 includes many powerful tools for creating unique documents using much more than simple text customization. If you use images in your Word documents, you have a number of options for how they ...

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

Word has always been an impressively powerful piece of software, with dozens, if not hundreds, of features most people never knew existed. The new “Ribbon” interface in Word 2007 attempts to make some ...

Reader Mary wrote in with this vexing Word 2007 problem: “When only one document is opened, saved, and then closed in Word, the entire program closes. To keep the program open after closing a document ...

Create custom styles in Word 2003 and 2007 to reformat documents quickly, and to help others format their files in a uniform manner. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft Corp. said today. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by ...

I'm getting frustrated with Word today & hoping that there is an easy solution to what I thought would be a simple problem, but has no clear solution. There may be some completely different way of ...

Keep paragraphs together, print on both sides, change the date automatically, fit more text on a page, and insert an object on its own page. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Microsoft just can't seem to keep pace with hackers finding serious flaws in Office applications. Several new security bugs in the desktop productivity suite have been found and released to the public ...

You wouldn’t believe how often I get the same few questions about Microsoft Word. Perhaps the most common: “How do I change the line spacing?” I can understand the confusion. In Word 2003 and earlier, ...