Abby and Me

Dear Phoebe,

Thank you so much for your note and kind words about Is This Thing On?. I apologize for this late reply. Life and work got in the way and I'm just now getting to these posts.

I hope these answers prove helpful, if you haven't already solved your issues:

To create a new Word document –

1) Open the WORD program

2) Click on the Microsoft Logo in the top left corner (most things that you used to find under FILE can now be found here)

3) Click on NEW

4) Click on CREATE – bottom right corner

To move a document from e-mail to a folder -

1) You'll dowload the document from the e-mail to your computer

2) If you can't find where it went, track down the DOWNLOADS folder and see if it's in there

Moving items from one folder to another -

1) Open the folder where the document is presently stored

2) Click and drag the item from the folder to the Desktop

3) Click and drag the item from the Desktop into the desired folder.

Below are some helpful tools for Word 2007:

Save Word/Excel docs in universally acceptable format (convert from docx to doc/xlsx to xls):

11)      Click Microsoft Office Button (top left) 

22)      Click Word/Excel Options (bottom)

33)      Click Save (in left sidebar)

44)      Click Down arrow to right of “Save files in this format”

55)      Click Word/Excel 97-2003 Workbook

66)      Click OK (bottom right)

 

Customize Quick Access Bar:

11)      Microsoft Office Button                                   1) Symbol (top left) 

22)      Word/Excel Options                OR                   2) Choose item – More Commands

33)      Customize

44)     Choose item, Add or Remove                         * Minimize the ribbon 

55)      OK

 

FOR WORD ONLY – To eliminate extra line:

11)      Home

22)      Page Layout

33)      Paragraph, bottom corner arrow 

44)      Spacing, After – change to 0pt

55)      Check in the box next to – Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style

66)      Default (bottom)

77)      Yes

Keep in touch!

Best,

Abby