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Better controlling Word image placement

I saw this meme, on Mastodon, about the fight that is Word images. They hide the anchoring controls in a ribbon fly-out + dialog. Once you set them (per image sadly) to keep with text it becomes much more manageable. With the image selected access it from the flyout Layout Options > See more... link. or the Ribbon Picture Format > Position > More Layout Options > Position (tab) and set the Move with Text or Lock Anchor options. You can also accurately set the X,Y position relative to margins, paragraph, line etc Read more →

A Word about cut and paste options

Three words actually as I have never noticed the “Set Default Paste” Option on the Word paste fly-out. It takes you to Options > Advanced > Cut, copy and paste and much more control over how Microsoft Word pastes formatting. Via Word Blog - Tip: How to cut and paste without messing up formatting PS: This tip probably not of much interest to Jack Yan Read more →

Microsoft Office Web Applications are Live, on SkyDrive

The Microsoft Office Web applications went live, on Live, today. I’ve only had a brief look but first impressions are pretty good. Live goes Office or Office goes Live? From Office.live.com (* see footnote if not in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland) you get access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The files are hosted on Microsoft Skydrive which currently offers 25GB of free storage. They feel like basic Office 2010 applications with all you need to create, view, edit and share documents in the current Office xml based formats (old documents are migrated to .docx .xlsx ,pptx etc).... Read more →

Microsoft Word Help, that helps

Here is a great Microsoft Word resource that is more “real world how to get results” than the “this does that” help in Word. If you know someone who doesn’t use Format Styles (for me the key to Word efficiency), gets mixed up numbering or just wants a good introduction to Word visit: Microsoft Word Help at www.ShaunaKelly.com Basic concepts Styles in Microsoft Word Formatting Numbering, Bullets, Headings, Outlines Templates Word and Excel: links, charts and more Sharing Microsoft Word documents Tools Read more →

A matter of Style: MindManager and Word

It wasn't until I got to the end of the fight that I realised today represented two extremes of style. One easy, one hard. Styling MindManager Style: I had created a presentation in MindManager,... Read more →

MindManager 8 Integrated Microsoft Office Editing

MindManager maps are often used to reference information in other documents. Traditionally this has been achieved with a topic link to a file or use of "smart" map parts to incorporate information (Ou... Read more →

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Message Editor, it's Word but it's not...

In earlier versions of Outlook there was an option to “ Use Microsoft Word as your Message editor ”. This meant other applications, like MindManager SnagIt, which had Word integration also worked with... Read more →

Edit MindManager Maps in Microsoft Office Word 2007?

DWF into Windows , MindManager into Word , seems like the week for XML to break down barriers . Mindjet have released an extension that allows editing of MindManager maps in Microsoft Word 2007.... Read more →

Editing MindManager Maps with Microsoft Word?

If you are testing Microsoft Office 2007 this post on the Mindjet Blog may be of interest as Mindjet are looking for input. When I read, back in June 2005 , that Microsoft Office 2007 was going to use... Read more →