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Thursday, February 5, 2009

How to manage compatibility issues of Office 2007 to earlier office versions?

By default all Microsoft Office 2007 applications use the different files extensions than the earlier versions. All earlier Office applications used the file extensions as .doc, .xls and .ppt for Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively, but now Office 2007 applications uses the .docx, xlsx and .pptx file extensions for Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively. These all new file extensions are not compatible with all previous versions of Office applications, that is why Office 2002 and Office 2003 applications cannot open and read the .docx, xlsx and .pptx file extensions.
However, you have an option in Office 2007 to save the files with in older files extensions, But if you are frequently using the older versions of the file and also if the files created by you are to be shared on other computers which have earlier versions of Office, you may want to save all your new documents in the older format, but that would create duplicate files.
How to preview the Word documents without opening? NEW
In Microsoft Word, you can preview the document list within Word without having to open the document. This tip is very useful, if you have many word files and are not sure which file contain the information that you need. Almost all versions of Word support this feature to view all word file as preview one by one.
Follow the given steps to preview the word document without having to open the document:
First click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Word to run the word application.
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How to packaging your PowerPoint presentation to CD?
In Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, you can copy a presentation on to CD with all its supporting materials using "Package for CD" option. With this feature, you can merge the whole presentation components (pictures, music, charts, fonts and other graphics) as a single file so that you can run this presentation on another computer even if PowerPoint is not installed. This package file will useful for presentation backup and easy to transfer from one computer to other computer. In previous version of PowerPoint, the name of this feature was "Pack and Go".
Follow the given steps to create CD package for PowerPoint Slides:
First of all click on "Package for CD" option from the "File" menu, a small dialog box will appear with "Package for CD" title.
How to add Picture into Header/Footer in Excel?
In MS excel header and footer option is used to display the repeated graphics or text on the top or button of each pages in a document. You can insert a picture (company logo or other related picture) in the bottom or top margin of each page. For reference, you can add the data, time and path for where you saved excel file on your computer or on any network server. Both the header and the footer are displayed in print layout view and save your time to enter the same items in pages again and again. You can use the same header and footer throughout a document or change the header and footer for part of the document.
You can leave the header or footer for the first page and can also use different headers and footers on odd and even pages or for part of a document.
To apply header or footer, follow these steps.

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