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 ...

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 ...

If you have older Word 2007 documents, you don't have to worry about Word 2010 changing them, because it can't while it's in Word 2007 Compatibility mode. This special mode ensures that people who use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seeing a giant Word file arrive in your inbox can leave one feeling like it's the last chance to cram before a test—you just want to find the portions with relevant information in them, in context.

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 ...

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, ...