Get Help With Word 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 brings with it countless improvements over the 2003 version but some features, especially the new ribbon interface, can be a little tricky to get to grips with. This interactive guide from Microsoft takes you step-by-step through the transition from 2003 to 2007.

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Free Alternative to Adobe Photoshop

Paint.net is intended as a replacement for the limited Paint progam that comes with Windows. Paint.net is a free image and photo manipulation program that supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects adn a number of tools and effects.

It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials and plugins. Apart from GIMP, it does not seem to have many rivals as far as freebies are concerned.

Request a FREE introduction on how to get started in paint.net.

Free Alternative Software to the Microsoft Office Suite

If you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office Open Office is a worthy contender and it's absolutely FREE!

Open Office, developed by Sun Micro Systems, is a hugely popular alternative and is free to download and use - not bad given that the standard edition of Microsoft Office costs in the region of £250.

The fact that it's free often leads people t think Open Office has limited features, but this is not true: the current Version 3 has functionality that rivals Microsoft Office. Open Office will also save files as Microsoft versions - useful for sharing with those using Microsoft products.

There is also readily available a selection of official Open Office Tutorials. If, however, you would like more in depth eduction the software, or prefer to be professionally trained on a one-to-one basis, then training is available from The Away PA.

Lessons are carried out in 1 hour modules via an interactive training room and are tailored to your requirements. You can take as many or as few lessons as you wish - there is no minimum requirement. To find out more, contact The Away PA by email: info@theawaypa.eu or telephone 08450 527565.

Zoho is an online office suite which is great for creating and editing documents online, but there will always be those times where you would prefer to use a standard application from your local drive (eg, Open Office above).

A plug in for Microsoft Office lets you edit your Zoho documents using Word and Excel. Download the Plugin.

With the help of converters and viewers from Office Online, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people who have different versions of Office

With the help of converters and viewers from Office Online, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people who have different versions of Office programs, or even with people who don't have Office installed.

Converters allow you to open files created by people using different versions of your Office programs.

Viewers provide a means for people who don't have Office programs to see your work. You can provide them with the appropriate viewer along with your Office files.

Alternatively, you can use a FREE online service DocsOnline.

Converters for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007

• Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007

Access viewers

• Access 2002 viewers
• Access 2000 viewers
• Access 97 viewers

Excel converters and viewers

• Excel 2007 viewer
• Excel 2003 viewers
• Excel 2000 converters
• Excel 2000 viewers
• Excel 97 converters

Outlook converters and viewers

• Outlook 2000 converters
• Outlook 97/98 converters

PowerPoint converters and viewers

• PowerPoint 2007 viewers
• PowerPoint 2003 viewers
• PowerPoint 2002 viewers
• PowerPoint 2000 converters
• PowerPoint 2000 viewers
• PowerPoint 97 converters
• PowerPoint 97 viewers

Microsoft Project converters

• Microsoft Project 2000 converters

Visio converters and viewers

• Visio 2007 viewers
• Visio 2003 viewers
• Visio 2002 viewers
• Visio 2000 converters

Word converters and viewers

• Word 2007 viewers
• Word 2003 viewers
• Word 2002 converters
• Word 2002 viewers
• Word 2000 converters
• Word 2000 viewers
• Word 97 converters
• Word 97 viewers

Converters and viewers for Macintosh users

• Mactopia downloads

Sync your Google Calendar with Outlook

Google Calendar has a sync utility which works with Outlook 2003 and 2007 on Windows XP and Vista.

Exit Outlook and click on the download link in Step 2 under "Get Started". When it has finished downloading, run the file to install the software. Click on the I Agree button, Next and then Install. Click on Close when the installer finishes.

The calendar set up window will appear. Enter your Googlemail address in the top box and password in the box below. Leave the top option '2-way' selected, so Outlook and Google Calendar will always have the same entries. Choose how often you want the diaries synchronised. Click on Save.

Voila!

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Power Up Your Documents with Word Links

If you are a regular user of Microsoft Word, but have never explored document links, then you are missing out on a great way to exploit the information contained in documents. Links offer a way to move around a document quickly and easily. They can also be used to automatically pull in data or information from other documents and to add extra oomph to contents, tables, glossaries, indeces and cross-references.

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Quick Shortcut to sending an email in Windows

If you want to quickly send an email in the Windows operating system, you have to start your email client, click on the write button and start writing the email. A much faster way is to press [windows R], type [mailto:] and hit enter. This opens the new mail message window of the default email client on your computer . It is even possible to add parameters like [mailto:admin@example.com?subject=test&body=test2] which would automatically add the recipient admin@example.com, the subject test and the body text "test2" to the email.

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