Software Reference

The title says it all, really. A list of some lesser-known keyboard shortcuts that you can use to be more productive in Windows.

I have recently been writing a series of articles for a website. This has involved spending hours every day typing.

Read on for some useful tips if you are going to be spending a long time at the keyboard.

The Office Watch website has collected together the links to updated help files for the Microsoft Office 2007 components, and provided some advice about installing them.

Let's hope there's been some improvement. The inadequacy of the online help, particularly context-sensitive help, for Word was a major motivation behind our writing Microsoft Office Word 2007 Essential Reference for Power Users.

I like the intention behind Word 2007's handling of synonyms. In theory, you right-click in a word that you want to change (perhaps because you've already used it nearby) and hover the mouse pointer over Synonyms in the menu to see a list of alternatives. Click the best alternative and Word makes the change for you. When it works, it's a very efficient way to make the change.

Unfortunately, the list of alternatives often isn't very good.

This extensive reference manual covers the whole of Microsoft Office Word 2007 in exquisite detail: every dialog box is illustrated and every command (whether or not it is available through the Ribbon) is described and fully cross-referenced.

This is not a ‘how to’ guide, but a serious reference for power users for whom the online help is not detailed enough.

Buy this book if you need quick answers to tricky questions about Word 2007.