Just a few days ago, I talked about ‘How to add pass­word to doc­u­ment?’ and ‘How to Remove Pass­word from Word Doc­u­ment?’. This prac­ti­cal ques­tion paper with solu­tion is related to these posts. If you are not well… Read the rest

This is a short post to point­ing you to the pdf doc­u­ment of 3 pages that lists the nui­sances to a new user when cre­at­ing MS Word doc­u­ment. If you are fac­ing prob­lems like below, you need to down­load this doc­u­ment and… Read the rest

A few how-tos I’m fre­quently being asked regard­ing MS Word uses. Set­ting dif­fer­ent paper sizes for dif­fer­ent pages in a doc­u­ment is one of such ques­tion. We’ll learn that skill but for that smooth under­stand­ing of sec­tion breaks is nec­es­sary.… Read the rest

Now the doc­u­ment is pub­lished and needs no longer to keep secret –if it was pass­word pro­tected – how to remove pass­word from Word doc­u­ment so that every­body can open it and mod­ify? This is what we are talk­ing about in this post.

We’d learned how you can set pass­word to Word doc­u­ment in my pre­vi­ous post. I won­der, how could I for­get about unlock­ing the doc­u­ment? Here goes the reverse process.

Doc­u­ment secu­rity is con­cerned with major two aspects – pro­tec­tion against unau­tho­rized access and pro­tec­tion against acci­den­tal modification.

Being able to restrict the access (open­ing or retriev­ing con­tent inside doc­u­ment) is pro­tec­tion against unau­tho­rized access. This is the doc­u­ment secu­rity mea­sure you apply to allow only to the the per­mit­ted peo­ple to open and use document.

Another type of secu­rity man­age­ment is pro­tec­tion against acci­dent mod­i­fi­ca­tion. In this scheme, you will allow any­body to open and view the doc­u­ment or print the doc­u­ment but will restrict edit­ing or mod­i­fy­ing it.

Microsoft Word has ‘Pass­word to Open’ and ‘Pass­word to Mod­ify’ options for these two types of doc­u­ment protection.

Apart from these two secu­rity man­age­ment, Microsoft Word sup­ports lim­ited access too! You can con­fig­ure some actions to per­mit and some oth­ers to restrict. For exam­ple, it is pos­si­ble to restrict for­mat­ting only or limit the edit­ing only.

Today, in this post, we are dis­cussing about restrict­ing unau­tho­rized access and modification.

Though used very less often, open­ing a doc­u­ment in read-only mode some­times is most ben­e­fi­cial. Impor­tant doc­u­ments that should not be mod­i­fied are at risk when open­ing nor­mally as we do through File»Open method dou­ble click­ing the file from its stored loca­tion. When a file is opened editable mode (nor­mally) they are more prone to attacks by macro viruses. If you open your impor­tant doc­u­ment for print­ing or any other pur­pose other than edit­ing, it is always advis­able to open in Read Only mode.

A file which is in read only mode is indi­cated by text ‘(Read Only)’ in title bar.

We are famil­iar with the red and green col­ored wave under­lines since long. Microsoft Word uses red wave under­line to indi­cate spelling errors in your doc­u­ment. Sim­i­larly green wave under­line is being used for gram­mat­i­cal errors. It is since this Word 2007 we’ve got blue wave under­line too!

The exam­ple above shows the instance of each type of error mark­ers. The word ‘goes’ is green under­lined. It is gram­mar error. The sub­ject ‘You’ can’t agree with the verb ‘goes’. Sim­i­larly the word ‘moll’ is red under­lined. It is a word not in any dic­tio­nary. So it must be spelling error. The third word ‘their’ is blue under­lined. The word can be found on dic­tio­nary and there is noth­ing wrong gram­mat­i­cally. Here, blue wave under­line is used to indi­cate con­tex­tual spelling error.

You can cre­ate great look­ing prfes­sional doc­u­ments eas­ily by using suit­able tem­plates. Some spe­cilized and good tem­plates can pro­vide you pre-formatted doc­u­ment with text place­hold­ers. All you need to do is just replace the text and images with your own.

This post talks a bit about what tem­plates are and what do they con­tain, dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of tem­plates avail­able in Word 2003 and Word 2007 along with illus­trated step­wise instruc­tions to cre­ate new doc­u­ment using tem­plates. I hope this tuto­r­ial will be help­ful to learn Microsoft Word.

Then, with­out delay, lets start!

Wel­come to MS Word — PS Exam. Its great that you’ve decided to learn Microsoft Word. In this blog I am using MS Word 2003 and Word 2007 simul­ta­ne­ously to dis­cuss the top­ics of word­pro­cess­ing tasks. Today, this is spe­cific post about Word 2003 only.

This post will intro­duce you with the four options avail­able when cre­at­ing new doc­u­ment in Word 2003 namely, Blank Doc­u­ment, XML Doc­u­ment, Web Page and From Exist­ing Doc­u­ment. You will be informed about the tem­plate and normal.dot file with ref­er­ences for fur­ther digging.

So, let’s begin.

Wel­come to MS Word – PS Exam to this new tuto­r­ial. I appre­ci­ate your inter­est in learn­ing Microsoft Word.

Have you ever been trou­bled by a triv­ial cause? It hap­pens. Because I missed a sim­ple and basic thing, I had to face an unnec­es­sary prob­lem for long. When the cause is iden­ti­fied, what a shame!

I’m going through even these sim­ple bits of infor­ma­tion so as to build up a solid foun­da­tion to make easy grasp­ing of more advanced con­cepts in Microsoft Word in com­ing days.

Today we are talk­ing about ‘Text Bound­aries’ – a basic con­cept for MS Word. We’ll go through find­ing what it is; when and why to use it along with illus­trated step­wise pro­ce­dure to enable and dis­able in Microsoft Word 2003 and also Word 2007.

Come, let’s start!