For the longest time I can remember, PC users have clamored for password-protected files and folders. In Microsoft Word (and I’m assuming Excel and other Office apps as well), you can protect your documents with passwords. I don’t recommend doing so, but the feature is available.
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You have a keyboard. You have Word. How do you get those accented characters even though they don’t appear on the keyboard?
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One thing that became drastically more arduous in Word 2007, and subsequently Word 2010, was the process by which page numbers are inserted into a document.
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When it comes to adding important-looking items into your documents, forget the Insert tab. The place to go is the References tab.
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Tucked in the middle of the Word 2010/2007 Ribbon is a tab called References. It’s a big Why Bother item for most casual writers. For folks working on doctorates, thesis papers, political manifestos, and other big, scary documents, it’s an invaluable feature.
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Word users can become massively frustrated by something a simple as a line. Not a line of text, but a line like this:

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Making a document in Word that features a cover page without a page number can be an exercise in frustration. If you followed along with Monday’s blog post, then you’re already halfway there. Time to finish the job.
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Allow me to drag myself, kicking and screaming, into a frightening realm of what Microsoft Word attempts to do when formatting images.
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One of the features I miss the most from the old, original WordPerfect was called Reveal Codes. It was a nerd’s delight, but also a key to cleaning up your text.
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Meanwhile, back to the original issue of the email I received, what can you do about getting AutoText back in Word 2007?
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