I tried for a long time, now I finally have a Microsoft Word/writing course at LinkedIn Learning. I’m quite pleased with the results.
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I’ve been honored to return to the Lynda campus and record yet another online training video. The topic is preparing a proper outline. I’m super excited.
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Online collaboration is a new feature in Microsoft Word, so new that it really doesn’t work yet. While Microsoft is trying, Google has done it properly with their Google Docs. The problem, of course, is that your collaborators may dive in and offer suggestions when you’re not quite ready.
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Late last year, I was hired to do some research on Microsoft Word. Not the current version, but Word 2003. It was the last major revision of Word before the 2007 update, which brought the Ribbon interface to Office and lots of angst to various users.
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A friend of my discovered an interesting trick for Microsoft Word, something I wasn’t aware of. Buried within the old Find command, what Word 2016 calls “Advanced Find,” you can search for character codes.

Yeah, this revelation may not launch your rocket, but it makes me all gooey.
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Word 2007 introduced the concept of the theme in Word. I ignore it. I mean: I see the point. Design experts have crafted a set of fonts, styles, and colors and you can quickly apply them to any document. Neat-o. But Word has another set of themes, which I also ignore.
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Recently, a reader asked me how to make Microsoft Word 2010 look like her beloved Word 2003. The answer is definitive: You can’t.
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Like many applications, Microsoft Word offers several different formats to save a file. The default is the Word Document format, also known as DOCX. Other formats are chosen from a File Type menu, which allows you to use Word to create documents for other applications, documents for legacy versions of Word, and files of various types to help exchange information.
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