Some answers in-line...
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:03:02 -0800, jjk98
<jjk98.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I am a writer and have successfully used Word 2000 for a number of 400+ page
>books with MANY illustrations. I am bravely attempting to move to Word 2007
>and a number of questions have come up.
>
>Where is the Word 2000 "View Normal" functionality that allows me to set the
>width of the style area and see the style names? I know that "View Normal" in
>2000 is "View Draft" in 2007 but there seems to be no way to see the styles.
Click the Office button in the upper left corner and choose Word
Options from the bottom right corner of the menu. This is the
equivalent of the old Tools > Options command, although its dialog
pages are just as poorly organized as before.
Click the Advanced tab of the dialog and scroll down to the Display
group, where you'll find the "Style area pane width" setting.
>How do I set the View parameters on File Open to default to two page 110%
As in earlier versions, documents normally open with the same zoom
percentage they had at the last save. You can force a particular value
by writing an AutoOpen macro like the one near the end of
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
>Is there any way to set the default for File Save As to .doc NOT .docx? I
>must have had 30 email recipients complain about attached word files as not
>readable as they are .docx, and being old it is hard to retrain myself not to
>blindly save without changing the file extension.
In the Word Options dialog, on the Save tab, set the dropdown for
"Save files in this format" to Word 97-2003 Document. That controls
the default format; you can still save as .docx when you want to.
>One of the very neat features in Word 2007 is that if you right click
>anywhere in the document two widows appear, a small one with two rows of
>icons primarily for text formating and another with more complex tasks. In
>both of these I cannot find any method for customizing their contents. Great
>idea, but without customization, not all that useful as many of things I use
>frequently are not there, e.g. center justication is there but not right,
>left, or both. Sort of useless to have only one.
The context menu (the one with more complex tasks) can be customized,
but that requires a macro. The other one (called the mini bar,
although some of us prefer the name "floatie" that was used during the
beta test) is not customizable at all.
There are keyboard shortcuts for most of the formatting commands, such
as Ctrl+L for left justification, Ctrl+R for right, and Ctrl+J for
both. Read the help topic "Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word".
Also, you can add any of the formatting buttons, or the entire Font
and Paragraph groups from the Home menu, to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Just right-click in the ribbon and choose Add to Quick Access Toolbar.
>The old Word 2000 "Insert->Picture->From File" used to show the thumbnail of
>the picture selected. It no longer does so. Is there any way to restore the
>feature?
That's just a view that you can select in the dialog. Exactly how
depends on which Windows version you're using, but there should be a
View button somewhere on the dialog, or you can right-click a blank
area and choose View; then select Thumbnails or Large Icons. In some
versions there is also a Preview pane that can be displayed.
>Probably should not have asked such a variety of questions. I have more...
>but will stop here.
Come on back and ask the rest. (By the way, I'm in my 60s and not the
oldest of the regulars here. Don't think you can't keep learning.)
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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