A few questions that came up during the March 10, 2010 Word 2007 class…
Is there a way to preview emails generated by a mail merge? Yes, but you’ll want to create the messages using the Start Mail Merge wizard on the Mailings tab, rather than “walking across the Ribbon” like we do in class. This link to the Microsoft Support pages should be helpful (scroll down to the Word 2007 section) -http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294694
I can’t Control-C twice to get the Clipboard to come up anymore – what’s up? That feature is controlled by a Clipboard Option now. Click the Clipboard Dialog Launch Box on the home page (Clipboard group) to bring up the Clipboard. Scroll to the very bottom of the Clipboard and click the Options button. You will have several choices to control how the Clipboard functions in Word 2007, including the command keys.
Track Changes doesn’t work quite the way it did before either… Check out the Track Changes options as well. On the Review tab, click the arrow under the Track Changes command, and select Change Tracking Options. There are many options here, but focus mostly on the Balloons section to control the “look” of comments, etc. when editing online.
There was a “font” option in older versions of Word that would change selected text from all upper case to all lower case lettters - very handy when I forgot the CAPS LOCK was turned on for a sentence or two. I can’t find it now. Neither could the instructor, and there is no mention of this feature on the Microsoft support pages for Word 2007, so it is likely no longer available. A suggested “work around” from the instructor (not pretty and not worth it for short strings of text, but might be for lengthier content) – If you have Excel, you could use the LOWER case function to convert the text from upper to lower case and then copy it back into your Word document. The function will look something like this in Excel – LOWER (UPPER CASE TEXT THAT SHOULD BE LOWER CASE), and the cell contents “upper case text that should be lower case” can then be copied back to Word.
