You're welcome.
I think they changed the wording as an attempt to add more clarity for new
users. I agree, it's frustrating when you are familiar with the old terms.
You can still use the keyboard, all of the keyboard shortcuts that were
available in Word 2003 still work in Word 2007. You can also use Alt key
navigation, called Key Tips. If you press your Alt key you'll see Key Tips
display above each command in the Ribbon and for each tab. Commands on your
QAT are assigned a Key Tip by the position of the command. Alt+1 is for the
first command, Alt+2 for the second, and so on.
You'll also see the keyboard shortcut identified in the Screen Tip for many
of the commands. Not all are identified, though, even if it has a shortcut
assigned. In that case, you can look up "keyboard" in Help for various lists
of keyboard shortcuts. Here is a link that may help:
http://office.microsoft.com/client/...t=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=CH100965071033#2
All-in-all, after using Office applications for over 20 years I do think
Office 2007 is worth the time to learn. I'm not just saying that, either.
There was a time I was saying quite the opposite. lol There are so many
great aspects that I wish the rest of the world would take the leap so I can
start implementing the new features.
If you want an example of a couple features I find the most exciting in
Word, I think Content Controls and Building Blocks will provide more
efficient methods of document creation - this is where you really start
finding time-saving steps. Using a content control, a type of data entry
contol, you can bind it a data source. The data can be used elsewhere in the
document and even extracted for database import. If you want an example of
this, create a new document based on one of the Reports in the Installed
Templates, click the Microsoft Office Button and then click New. Equity
Report would make a good example.
The reports contain content controls in the document and in the
headers/footers. Fill in the information on the cover page, such as the
title, year/date, subtitle, company name, etc. Scroll through the document
and note how the data you added to the first page was automatically updated
on subsequent pages. AND you can modify the data anywhere in the document.
Better yet, updating the document to reflect the changes is not necessary.
Then, on the Insert tab, click Cover Page and select another cover page.
This will swap out the current cover page and all of the previously typed
data will display in the new cover page.
If you want a little more insight on what is happening exactly in the
template and cover page, they contain bound document property fields which
are displayed in Content Controls. You can find these fields under Quick
Parts on the Insert tab. Once inserted, if you modify the data in the
content control it's automatically added to the Document Properties. So if
you add the same document property field again there's no need to add or
modify the data and you can view and modify the document properties outside
the application and update the file contents. Similar to how the bound
document properties work, you can create your own data bindings and fields,
if you will, for specialized documents using content controls.
Since you are in the legal field, consider how your legal documents could be
created using similar methods - a few clicks to insert content that is
already pre-populated AND formatted. Combine this power with the power of
SharePoint and I could continue typing for at least another printed page!
lolol
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook
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http://mvps.org/word
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