Saturday, April 9, 2011

read-only documents

Using both Word and Windows, there are a variety of ways you can mark a file as read-only so that it cannot be changed.

Quick Tables

 
Quick Tables are tables that are stored in galleries as building blocks. You can access and reuse Quick Tables at any time. If you frequently use a table with specific formatting, you can save a copy of the table in the Quick Tables gallery so that you don't need to recreate the table each time that you want to use it.

print queue

A print queue is a representation of a print device physical printer in Microsoft Windows. Opening a print queue displays active print jobs and their status.

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange. The file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

microsoft word

Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word 2010
Developer(s)Microsoft
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeWord processor
LicenseProprietary EULA
WebsiteMicrosoft Word
Microsoft Word for Mac
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Microsoft Word for Mac 2011
Developer(s)Microsoft
Operating systemMac OS X
TypeWord processor
LicenseProprietary EULA
WebsiteMicrosoft Word for Mac

Microsoft Word is a paid commercial word processor designed by Microsoft. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system; it is also sold as a standalone product and included in Microsoft Works Suite. The current versions are Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows and 2011 for Mac.

matadata

Metadata describes other data. It provides information about a certain item's content.A text document's metadata may contain information about how long the document is, who the author is, when the document was written, and a short summary of the document.

merging cells

The Merge Cell function automatically centers data across the merged cells. You can merge several cells into one cell, which is very effective for laying out spreadsheet titles.