I want to create a letter in Word 2007, how?

[Gregl]

I bought the 2007 Microsoft Office and Student today in order to be able to
create a business letter as I often need to do and I have been unable to
navigate Word to a place where I could start composing that letter. I know
that there are countless helps for my future documents but right now I just
need someone to volunteer to help me "find the way".

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com]

This is a forum for questions about programming Word using Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA). Although this forum is regularly frequented by people who
can undoubtedly provide you with some very helpful information, you would
probably reach a broader pool of resources by posting your question in the
'General Questions' (or even 'New Users') newsgroup.

That said, I do understand your concern; Word 2007 looks *a lot* different
from previous versions. However, not that much has really changed; it still
does everything it did before (and more!), but the method for accessing a
particular piece of functionality may have changed a bit. Whatever process
you may have used to create business letters in the past should still work in
2007 - assuming, of course, that these processes involved using Word and you
weren't just typing them or writing them out by hand. ;-P

My first recommendation would be to pick up a book on Word 2007 - Que's
'Using Microsoft Office Word 2007' is in my library, and fellow MVP Herb
Tyson's 'Microsoft Word 2007 Bible' is also a very good resource. In fact,
even a 'Dummies' book would probably help. In addition, you might want to
search the Microsoft site for business letter templates, which may help you
get started.

Good luck, and be patient! After you get over the initial 'hump' I think
you'll find 2007 to be a very good tool.
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Jay Freedman]

I bought the 2007 Microsoft Office and Student today in order to be able to
create a business letter as I often need to do and I have been unable to
navigate Word to a place where I could start composing that letter. I know
that there are countless helps for my future documents but right now I just
need someone to volunteer to help me "find the way".

Click on the big round thing in the upper left corner -- that's a button, not
just a decoration. For lack of a better name, it's called the "Office button".

When the menu opens, click the New item to open a dialog. In the list on the
left of the dialog, click Letters. In the list of letters, click Business.
Choose a type of letter, and the next display will show a lot of templates for
specific letters.

Click one and click the Download button to create a document based on the
template. Modify it as needed for your business.