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A component of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word is perhaps the most popular word processing program on the planet.
How can I duplicate my existing letterhead in Word?
Many businesses have existing paper stationery that they'd like to have available directly in a word processor. Unfortunately converting's not easy.
How do I convert a ".tif" file to a Word ".doc" file?
Converting ".tif" format documents to editable Word ".doc" files requires Optical Character Recognition - OCR - services or software.
How do I convert a PDF document into a Word document?
It's not uncommon to want to take a PDF file and convert it to a more easily editable format like Word. Problem is, PDF wasn't mean to do that.
How do I get Word documents on the web to show up in Word, rather than my browser?
By default Word and other documents are displayed within IE rather than in an instance of the application. It's an easy setting to change, once found.
How do I overline characters in Word?
It is actually very possible to overline characters in Microsoft Word.
How do I share documents between OpenOffice Writer and Microsoft Word?
OpenOffice is a free software suite to rival Microsoft Office. Exchanging documents between the two is not only possible, but quite easy.
How do I turn off automatic formatting in Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word tries to be helpful and format items based on what it thinks you're doing. That's handy, if it's what you want. If not, it's annoying.
What's a "docx" file, and how did I get one?
".docx" is the new extension used by Microsoft Word 2007. There are a couple of approaches if you're exchanging documents with users of older versions.
Where does Microsoft Word keep AutoText entries?
Microsoft Word keeps AutoText entries in a fairly easy to find template.
Why does Word tell me a document has changed when it hasn't?
It's sometimes hard to tell why Word thinks a document has changed even though you haven't done anything. We'll provide a few clues.
Why is my paste of web content into Word underlined?
Pasting web page content into Word certainly isn't guaranteed to maintain the same formatting, but adding underlines to everything is probably a bug.