Balloons may bring back childhood memories of summer fun, but they're also a useful feature in Microsoft Word 2007. These particular balloons don't float, but they give you a way to add helpful ...

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

If you have older Word 2007 documents, you don't have to worry about Word 2010 changing them, because it can't while it's in Word 2007 Compatibility mode. This special mode ensures that people who use ...

I had a sudden and unexpected immersion in Word 2007 this week after a failure on my Computerworld laptop left the keyboard inoperable. I was just beginning a telephone interview. The switchover, made ...

Find your favorite Word 2003 commands in the new Word 2007 interface. Editor’s Note: These charts accompany our main story, “Word 2007 Cheat Sheet.” Click through to that story for detailed ...

Joe Friend, a lead program manager (Microsoft's term for a person who creates the specifications for software that programmers implement) has posted an entry on his blog regarding an interesting new ...

The US Court of Appeals has ordered Microsoft to drop support for editing Custom XML in Word, essentially stopping the company from selling current versions of one of its flagship products and ...

Microsoft just can't seem to keep pace with hackers finding serious flaws in Office applications. Several new security bugs in the desktop productivity suite have been found and released to the public ...

Changing the default printer driver to PDF lets files created in Word 2010 format properly in Word 2007, but the only permanent solution is to revert to Word's old default format. Dennis O'Reilly ...

Mindjet MindManager is an excellent tool, but collaborating with people who don't use it has been problematic—until now, that is. This new product bridges the gap between MindManager and Word 2007, ...