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What's new in Microsoft Office Word 2003

Microsoft Office Word 2003

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What's new in Microsoft Office Word 2003

What's new

Bullet Support for XML documents


Bullet Improved readability


Bullet Support for ink devices


Bullet Improved document protection


Bullet Compare documents side by side


Bullet Document Workspaces


Bullet Information Rights Management


Bullet Improved international features


Bullet More new features


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Table of contents

  • Startup and Settings
    • What's new in Microsoft Office Word 2003
    • What's new in Microsoft Office 2003
    • About product activation in Microsoft Office System products
    • Disclaimer: Use of Fictitious Names
    • Terms of Use
    • Getting Help
      • Get help about Web Discussions
      • About getting help while you work
      • Icons in the Search Results task pane
      • Show or hide the Type a question for help box
      • Change the appearance of a Help topic
      • Print a Help topic
      • Troubleshoot Help
      • The Office Assistant
        • About tips and messages from the Office Assistant
        • Select a different Office Assistant
        • Display tips and messages through the Office Assistant
        • Hide or show the Office Assistant
        • Turn the Office Assistant sound on or off
        • Show or hide the Office Assistant in wizards
      • Programmability
        • Turn on or off Trust access to Visual Basic Project
      • Other Resources
        • About the Office Resource Kit
        • Open the Office Readme file
        • Get Help for Visual Basic for Applications in Word
        • Get help from Microsoft Product Support services
        • Macro language support is disabled
        • Show the Tip of the Day when an Office program starts
        • Macros for changing and troubleshooting Word settings
        • Automatically update this list from the Web
        • Microsoft Office Online
          • About Office Communities
          • Search for help, templates, and additional online content on Microsoft Office Online
          • Complete an Office Web-based training course
          • Give feedback for Microsoft Office Online or an Office program
          • Turn Microsoft Office Online featured links on or off
    • Accessibility
      • About accessibility for people with disabilities
      • About creating accessible Office documents
      • Accessibility features in Office Help
      • Accessibility features in Word
      • Using screen readers with Help
      • Keyboard Shortcuts
        • About shortcut keys
        • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Assign or remove a shortcut key
        • Assign a keyboard shortcut to a style
        • Print a list of shortcut keys
        • Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
        • ALT GR keys
        • Restore shortcut keys to their original settings
    • Installing and Customizing
      • Install or remove individual components in Office
      • Show or hide ScreenTips
      • Get information about your program and computer
      • Show or hide the list of recently used documents on the File menu
      • Change Office's appearance
      • Open an Office Binder file
      • Customize how Word starts
      • Toolbars and Commands
        • About menus and toolbars
        • Add a button, menu, or command
        • Assign a hyperlink to a toolbar button or menu command
        • Delete a button or menu command
        • Items that appear in the status bar
        • Move or copy a button, menu, or menu command
        • Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
        • Create a custom toolbar
        • Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
        • Move a submenu anywhere on the screen
        • Customize a shortcut menu
        • Rename a button, menu command, or menu
        • Delete a toolbar or menu
        • Show or hide a toolbar
        • Move a toolbar
        • Show all buttons or commands
        • Animate menus
        • Resize a toolbar
        • Add, change, or delete sounds used with buttons and menu commands
        • Change a picture on a button
        • Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
        • Display an icon, text or both on a menu command or button
        • Rename a custom toolbar
        • Restore original settings for buttons, commands, or toolbars
        • Show or hide toolbar ScreenTips
        • Show or hide shortcut keys in ScreenTips
        • Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
      • Troubleshoot Installing Office
        • About Office Safe Mode
        • Enable items that were disabled by Office Safe Mode
        • Recover a program that is not responding
        • Automatically repair Office programs
        • Troubleshoot installing an Office program
      • Global Templates and Add-ins
        • About loading and unloading global templates and add-in programs
        • Load or unload a global template or add-in program
        • Load or unload a Component Object Model (COM) add-in program
    • Using Microsoft Office
      • About the default working folder
      • Change the default working folder
      • About Microsoft Office Document Imaging
      • Show the vertical ruler or scroll bar
      • Automatically start an Office program when you turn on your computer
      • Change the program that starts when you open a file
      • Copy the window or screen contents
      • Show or hide multiple program buttons on the Windows Taskbar
      • What happened to the Office Shortcut Bar?
      • Change the screen resolution
      • Minimize a window
      • Minimize all program windows on the Windows desktop
      • Restore a minimized window
      • Show all windows on the Windows desktop
      • Format a disk
      • Prompt to open a file as read-only
      • Office Clipboard
        • About collecting and pasting multiple items
        • Display the contents of the Office Clipboard
        • Clear items from the Office Clipboard
        • Turn off the Office Clipboard
        • Turn Office Clipboard command options on or off
      • Instant Messaging
        • About Instant Messaging
        • Send an instant message
        • Enable instant message smart tags
    • Managing Files
      • Save a document
      • About saving documents
      • Troubleshoot opening files
      • Open a file
      • Rename a file
      • Select multiple files
      • Add an open file to the Favorites folder
      • About Rich Text Format documents
      • Save an Office document as a TIFF file
      • Set a default file format for saving new documents
      • Troubleshoot saving documents
      • Troubleshoot saving files
      • Turn off fast saves
      • View all hidden file types and file name extensions
      • Moving, Copying, and Deleting Files
        • Move a file
        • Copy a file
        • Delete a file
        • Add or delete a shortcut from the My Places bar
        • Connect to a network drive
        • Go back to the previous drive, folder, or Internet location
      • File Properties
        • About file properties
        • View file properties
        • Change the author name for new documents
        • Create custom file properties
        • Set or change file properties
        • Modify custom file properties
        • Remove custom file properties
        • Troubleshoot file properties
      • File Recovery
        • About document recovery
        • Change the save interval for automatic file recovery
        • Recover files
        • Troubleshoot file recovery
        • Recover the text from a damaged document
        • Specify a location for automatically recovered files
      • Document Backup
        • About preventing loss of work
        • Save a backup copy of a document
        • Open a backup copy of a document
      • Document Versions
        • About saving versions of a document
        • Save multiple versions of a document
        • Open an earlier version of a document
        • Review version information
        • Save a version of a document as a separate file
        • Delete one or more versions of a document
        • Troubleshoot versioning
      • Finding Files
        • About places to save files
        • About finding files
        • Find a file
        • Troubleshoot finding files
    • Handwriting and Speech
      • Show or hide the Language bar
      • Tablet PC Ink
        • About ink features in Office
        • About using ink in Word
        • Insert ink in a document
        • Insert an ink comment
        • About locking document layout for ink annotations
        • Mark up a document with ink annotations
        • Select ink
        • Copy and paste ink
        • Delete ink
        • Change color of ink
        • About using ink in e-mail messages
        • Insert ink in an e-mail message
        • Switch pens
        • Change thickness of ink
        • Resize ink
        • Troubleshoot ink in Word
        • Troubleshoot ink in e-mail messages
      • Handwriting Recognition
        • About handwriting recognition
        • Install handwriting recognition
        • Handwriting recognition toolbars
        • Use handwriting recognition
        • Change handwriting recognition options
        • Troubleshoot handwriting recognition
        • Use handwriting tools to draw
        • Correct handwriting
        • Convert writing in handwritten form to typed text
        • Turn on or off saving handwritten input data
        • East Asian Languages
          • About handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
          • Use handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
          • Change handwriting recognition options in East Asian languages
          • Use handwriting tools to draw in East Asian languages
          • Change the handwriting recognition language
          • Correct handwriting in East Asian languages
          • Handwriting recognition toolbars in East Asian languages
          • Troubleshoot handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
      • Speech Recognition
        • About speech recognition
        • Getting started with speech recognition
        • Install and train speech recognition
        • Things you can do and say with speech recognition
        • Use speech recognition
        • How to speak to a computer
        • Position the speech recognition microphone
        • Turn on or off the speech recognition microphone
        • Create and use speech recognition user profiles
        • Format text by using speech recognition
        • Switch between using Dictation and Voice Command modes
        • Add to or delete from the speech recognition dictionary
        • Change speech recognition engines
        • Correct speech recognition errors
        • Language bar speech recognition messages
        • Turn on or off saving speech input data
        • Troubleshoot speech recognition
  • Creating Documents
    • About installing wizards and templates
    • Use settings from another document or template
    • Insert another file into an open document
    • Create a folded booklet
    • Using Wizards
      • Create a document
      • Create a letter
      • Modify an existing letter by using the Letter Wizard
      • Modify frequently used text in letters
      • Create a résumé
      • Create a new e-mail message
      • Create a document template
      • Create a legal pleading
      • Create a memo
      • Create an agenda
      • Create a calendar
    • Converting Documents
      • Turn on or off features introduced in recent versions of Word
      • About opening and saving in other file formats
      • Convert documents
      • Install a converter that's supplied with Word
      • Show or hide the Convert File dialog box
      • About file format converters
      • Set options for converting documents
      • Saving a document in a file format that cannot support specific features
      • Move files between Windows and the Macintosh
      • Using WordPerfect and Word
      • Troubleshoot file conversion
    • Templates
      • About templates
      • About template locations
      • About using settings from another document or template
      • Copy AutoText entries to another template
      • Modify a document template
      • Copy custom toolbars to another document or template
      • Troubleshoot templates and letters
      • Remove a tab from the Templates dialog box
    • Headers and Footers
      • About headers and footers
      • Insert headers and footers
      • Insert the chapter number and title in a header or footer
      • Change headers or footers
      • Position headers and footers
      • Delete a header or footer
      • Troubleshoot headers and footers
    • Master Documents
      • About master documents
      • Combine or split subdocuments
      • Convert a subdocument into part of the master document
      • Create a master document and subdocuments
      • Delete a subdocument from a master document
      • Expand or collapse subdocuments
      • Insert an existing Word document into a master document
      • Lock or unlock a subdocument
      • Open a subdocument from within a master document
      • Add page numbers to a master document or subdocuments
      • Print a master document
      • Rearrange subdocuments within a master document
      • Rename a subdocument
      • Troubleshoot master documents and subdocuments
  • Viewing and Navigating Documents
    • About ways to view a Word document
    • Select a document view
    • Arrange Word documents on the screen
    • Move around in a document
    • View two parts of a document simultaneously
    • Compare documents side by side
    • Zoom in on or out of a document
    • Show or hide formatting marks
    • Show or hide white space in print layout view
    • Display or hide scroll bars
    • Display a blue window background
    • Change the default unit of measure
    • What do the underlines in my document mean?
    • I see something unusual in my document
    • Troubleshoot document views and screen displays
    • Document Map
      • About the Document Map
      • Navigate a document with the Document Map
      • Change the width of the Document Map
      • Format text in the Document Map pane
      • Troubleshoot the Document Map
    • Reading Layout View
      • About reading layout view
      • Use reading layout view
      • Troubleshoot reading layout view
    • Outline View
      • About viewing a document as an outline
      • Create an outline from scratch
      • Collapse an outline to view a document's organization
      • Reorganize a document by using outline view
      • Text formatting in outline view
      • Troubleshoot outline view
  • Formatting Documents
    • Margins and Page Setup
      • About page margins
      • Change page margins
      • Select page orientation
      • Select paper size
      • Create a right-to-left folded booklet
      • Troubleshoot margins and page orientation
    • Page and Line Numbers
      • About line numbers
      • Add line numbers
      • Restart page numbering for each chapter
      • Add page numbers
      • Format page numbers
      • Remove line numbers
      • Remove page numbers
      • Display or hide the page number on the first page
      • Position page numbers outside the header or footer
      • Specify how to start or restart page numbering
      • Skip line numbers for specific paragraphs
      • Troubleshoot page numbers and line numbers
    • Page and Section Breaks
      • About page breaks and pagination
      • About sections and section breaks
      • Control pagination
      • Insert a manual page break
      • Change the type of section break
      • Delete a section break
      • Insert a section break
      • Troubleshoot page breaks and section breaks
    • Tables, Lists, and Columns
      • Tables
        • About tables
        • Office programs you can use to create a table
        • Automatically format a table
        • Add a cell, row, or column to a table
        • Change the cell margins in a table
        • Change the position of text in a table
        • Control where a table is divided
        • Convert text to a table or vice versa
        • Copy a table
        • Create a new table style
        • Create a table
        • Delete a cell, row, or column from a table
        • Delete a table or clear its contents
        • Display or hide gridlines in a table
        • Edit a list in a table by using a data form
        • Insert a tab in a table cell
        • Insert text before a table
        • Merge cells into one cell in a table
        • Move or copy items in a table
        • Number the cells in a table
        • Perform calculations in a table
        • Position a table on a page
        • Referencing cells in a table
        • Repeat a table heading on subsequent pages
        • Resize all or part of a table
        • Split a cell into multiple cells in a table
        • Split a table
        • Locate specific records in a large table
        • Troubleshoot tables
      • Bulleted and Numbered Lists
        • About bulleted and numbered lists
        • Add bullets or numbering
        • Add picture bullets or symbols to lists
        • Add numbering to items in paragraph text
        • Add numbers to headings
        • Create a new list style
        • Convert bullets to numbers and vice versa
        • Adjust spacing between a list bullet or number and the text
        • Change the numbering sequence in lists
        • Create a multiple-level picture bullet list
        • Create an outline numbered list
        • Include multiple outline numbers on a single line
        • Combine lists into one list
        • Modify bulleted or numbered list formats
        • Restore a customized list format to its original setting
        • Remove bullets or numbering
        • Turn on or off automatic bulleted or numbered lists
        • Troubleshoot bulleted and numbered lists
      • Newsletter-Style Columns
        • About newsletter-style layout
        • Add vertical lines between newsletter-style columns
        • Balance newsletter-style column length on a page
        • Change the number of newsletter-style columns
        • Change the width of newsletter-style columns
        • Create a heading that spans newsletter-style columns
        • Create newsletter-style columns
        • Display or hide newsletter-style column boundaries
        • Force the start of a new newsletter-style column
        • Remove newsletter-style columns
        • Troubleshoot newsletter-style columns
      • Linked Text Boxes
        • Break a text box link
        • Continue a story elsewhere with linked text boxes
        • Change the shape of the
        • Copy or move linked text boxes
        • Delete a linked text box without deleting text
        • Flow text side-by-side with linked text boxes
        • Move among linked text boxes in a story
        • Troubleshoot linked text boxes
      • Sorting Lists and Tables
        • About sorting
        • Sort a list or table
        • Sort according to the rules of another language
        • Troubleshoot sorting
    • Tables of Contents, Index, and Tables of Figures
      • Change the appearance of a table of contents, index, table of authorities, or table of figures
      • Delete an index, table of authorities, or table of figures
      • Update an index, table of contents, table of figures, or table of authorities
      • Troubleshoot a table of figures or table of authorities
      • Table of Contents
        • About creating a table of contents
        • Create a table of contents
        • Delete a table of contents
        • Troubleshoot tables of contents
      • Index
        • About creating an index
        • Create an index
        • Delete an index entry
        • Edit or format an index entry
        • Troubleshoot indexes
      • Table of Figures
        • Create a table of figures
      • Table of Authorities
        • About creating a table of authorities
        • Create a table of authorities
        • Add or change a citation category for a table of authorities
        • Edit or format a table of authorities entry
        • Delete an entry from a table of authorities
    • Cross-References, Captions, and Bookmarks
      • Cross-References
        • About cross-references
        • Change a cross-reference
        • Create a cross-reference
        • Paragraph number options in cross-references
        • Troubleshoot cross-references
      • Captions
        • About captions
        • Add captions
        • Change captions
        • Include chapter numbers in captions
        • Create a new caption label
        • Troubleshoot captions
      • Bookmarks
        • Add a bookmark
        • Delete a bookmark
        • Go to a specific bookmark
        • Show bookmarks
        • Troubleshoot bookmarks
    • Footnotes and Endnotes
      • About footnotes and endnotes
      • Change or remove a footnote or endnote separator
      • Change the number format of footnotes or endnotes
      • Change the placement of footnotes and endnotes
      • Continue footnote and endnote numbering from one document to another
      • Convert footnotes to endnotes and vice versa
      • Create a footnote or endnote continuation notice
      • Delete a footnote or an endnote
      • Insert a footnote or an endnote
      • Move or copy a footnote or endnote
      • Refer to the same footnote or endnote more than once
      • Restart footnote or endnote numbering from 1
      • View footnotes and endnotes
      • Print endnotes on a separate page
      • Troubleshoot footnotes and endnotes
    • Styles and Reusing Formatting
      • About checking the consistency of formatting
      • Check formatting for consistency
      • Troubleshoot format checking
      • About formatting text by using styles
      • Select all text with the same formatting
      • Reuse formatting
      • View or apply styles with the Style Gallery
      • Create a new style
      • Modify a style
      • Rename styles
      • Copy styles to another document or template
      • Apply a different style
      • Delete styles
      • Specify that one paragraph style follow another
      • Automatically update a paragraph style
      • Restrict formatting of a document
      • Display paragraph style names in the document window
      • Display or hide the Styles and Formatting task pane
      • Turn on or off automatic style definition
      • Turn on or off format tracking
      • Reveal formatting
      • Compare the formatting of two text selections
      • Troubleshoot using styles and applying formatting
    • AutoSummarize
      • About automatically summarizing a document
      • Automatically summarize a document
      • Troubleshoot automatically summarizing a document
  • Working with Text
    • Select text and graphics
    • Specify how Word selects text
    • Change typing and editing options
    • Troubleshoot selecting text
    • Troubleshoot Overtype
    • Copy and Paste
      • About the format of pasted information
      • Move or copy text and graphics
      • Turn on or off drag-and-drop editing
      • Turn on or off the Paste Options button
      • Troubleshoot collecting and pasting
      • Use the Spike to move text and graphics from nonadjacent locations
    • Find and Replace
      • Find and replace text or other items
      • Troubleshoot finding and replacing text or other items
    • Repeat and Undo Actions
      • Repeat your last action
      • Undo mistakes
    • Spelling, Grammar, and Thesaurus
      • About spelling, grammar, and the thesaurus
      • Troubleshoot spelling, grammar, and other proofing tools
      • Spelling and Grammar
        • Check spelling and grammar
        • Check the spelling and grammar of text in another language
        • Create and use custom dictionaries
        • Remove a custom dictionary
        • Set spelling and grammar preferences
        • Specify a preferred spelling for a word
        • Turn on or off automatic spelling and grammar checking
        • Grammar and writing style options
        • Show or hide wavy underlines
        • Readability scores
        • Display readability statistics
    • Symbols, Characters, and Hyphenation
      • About symbols and special characters
      • Insert a symbol
      • Insert a special character
      • Display and enter the euro and other currency symbols
      • Assign a shortcut key to a symbol or special character
      • Automatically insert an arrow, face, or other symbol
      • About hyphenation
      • Hyphenate text
      • Hyphenate text in another language
      • Insert a nonbreaking hyphen
      • Insert an optional hyphen
      • Remove hyphenation
    • Formatting Characters
      • Animate text
      • About applying formatting
      • Apply bold formatting
      • Apply embossed, engraved, outlined, or shadow formatting to text
      • Apply italic formatting
      • Show or hide actual fonts in the font list
      • Apply strikethrough formatting
      • Capitalize text
      • Change the color of text
      • Change the font
      • Apply or remove highlighting
      • Change the size of text
      • Change the spacing between characters
      • Remove formatting from text
      • Create a large dropped initial capital letter
      • Display or hide text animation
      • Hide text
      • Make text superscript or subscript
      • Remove a large dropped initial capital letter
      • Remove animation from text
      • Set the default font
      • Stretch or scale text horizontally
      • Underline text
      • Troubleshoot text formatting
    • Formatting Paragraphs
      • About text alignment and spacing
      • Adjust line or paragraph spacing
      • Align text left or right
      • Center text
      • Change the spacing between default tab stops
      • Change the vertical alignment of text
      • Clear or move tab stops
      • Indent paragraphs
      • Insert a tab in an outline
      • Justify text
      • Set tab stops
      • Insert a manual line break
      • Vary alignment within a single line of text
      • Troubleshoot line and paragraph spacing
      • Insert a tab in a table cell
    • Automatic Text Options
      • Automatically insert the current date
      • Insert the current date and time
      • Insert the date and time a document was created, last printed, or last saved
      • AutoCorrect
        • About automatic corrections
        • Automatically correct text as you type
        • Automatically correct text as you type in another language
        • Create or change automatic corrections
        • Delete an AutoCorrect entry
        • Turn on or off AutoCorrect options
        • Troubleshoot automatic corrections
      • AutoComplete
        • Turn on or off AutoComplete
      • AutoText
        • About inserting frequently used text and graphics
        • Create or change an AutoText entry
        • Delete an AutoText entry
        • Insert an AutoText entry
        • Troubleshoot inserting frequently used text and graphics
      • AutoFormat
        • About automatic formatting
        • Automatic formatting results
        • Automatically format hyphens as en dashes and em dashes
        • Change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa
        • Review AutoFormat changes
        • Format a document automatically
        • Turn off automatic formatting when Word is your e-mail editor
        • Turn on or off automatic formatting
        • Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks
        • Troubleshoot automatic formatting
      • Click and Type
        • About Click and Type
        • Use Click and Type to insert text and graphics
        • Troubleshoot Click and Type
    • Word Count
      • About word count
      • Count words
  • Working with Graphics and Charts
    • About graphics in Word
    • Select text and graphics
    • Position graphics and text
    • Change the default positioning of graphics
    • Add text to a drawing object or picture
    • Change the text-wrapping style for a picture or drawing object
    • Change the orientation of text
    • Determine if a picture is a bitmap or a drawn picture
    • Resize or crop graphics
    • About grouping and ungrouping objects
    • About Portable Network Graphics (.png) format
    • About stacking objects
    • Group, ungroup, or regroup objects
    • Move an object forward or backward
    • Save graphics in .png format
    • Set defaults for new picture or shape style
    • Troubleshoot graphics
    • Turn the drawing canvas on or off
    • Managing and Viewing Graphics
      • Arranging, aligning, and distributing graphics
      • Graphics file types Word can use
      • Speed up scrolling by hiding graphics
      • Convert embedded objects into graphics
      • Change the default program for editing imported graphics
      • Ways to reduce file size
    • Shapes and Drawing Objects
      • About shapes
      • Add a shape
      • Change the text in WordArt
      • Align and arrange drawing objects
      • Change a shape to another shape
      • Add WordArt
      • Change the drawing grid
      • Create a drawing
      • Delete a drawing object
      • Reshape a shape
      • Move a drawing object or set of objects
      • Flip an object
      • Create a mirror image of an object
      • Rotate an object
      • Apply the same height and width to different objects
      • Show or hide drawing gridlines
      • Create a callout or label that includes a leader
      • Change a callout leader
      • About WordArt
    • Borders, Shading, and Graphic Fills
      • About borders, shading, and graphic fills
      • Add a border
      • Add shading, color, or graphic fills
      • Change a border
      • Change shading, color, or graphic fills
      • Remove a border
      • Remove shading, colors, or graphic fills
      • Troubleshoot borders, shading, and graphic effects
    • Backgrounds and Watermarks
      • About backgrounds and watermarks
      • Add a background or watermark
      • Change a background or watermark
      • Remove a background or watermark
      • Troubleshoot backgrounds and watermarks
    • Pictures and Clip Art
      • Pictures
        • About pictures
        • Insert a picture
        • Change an inline picture to a floating picture, and vice versa
        • Wrap text
        • Create transparent areas in a picture
        • Undo all changes to a picture
        • Change the contrast or brightness of a picture
        • About transparent areas
        • Crop a picture
        • About reducing a picture's file size
        • Troubleshoot working with a scanner or camera
      • Clip Art
        • About finding clips
        • Find a clip
        • Find similar clips
        • Preview a clip
        • Insert a clip
        • View clip properties
        • Tips for finding clips
        • Clip Organizer
          • About the Clip Organizer
          • Add a clip to the Clip Organizer
          • Open Clip Organizer from an Office program
    • 3-D and Shadows
      • About 3-D effects and shadows
      • Add a 3-D effect to a drawing object
      • Add or remove a shadow
      • Add or remove an embossed or engraved effect from a shape
      • Change a 3-D drawing object
      • Change the shadow of a drawing object
      • Remove a 3-D effect from a drawing object
      • Remove a shadow from a drawing object
    • Text Boxes
      • Insert a text box
      • The difference between a text box and a frame
      • Convert a text box to a frame and vice versa
      • Change the margins around text in a shape or text box
      • Resize a frame or text box
      • Remove a frame
    • Lines and Connectors
      • About connector lines
      • Add a line
      • Draw a curve
      • Draw a freeform shape
      • Draw a line or connector
      • Add or remove arrowheads
      • Move or reroute a connector
      • Change the shape of a freeform or curve
      • Format a line or connector
    • Charts and Diagrams
      • Create a chart
      • Draw a flowchart
      • Change a flowchart
      • About organization charts
      • Add an organization chart
      • Change an organization chart
      • About diagrams
      • Add a diagram
      • Change a diagram
      • Delete an organization chart or diagram
      • Resize a diagram or organization chart
      • Troubleshoot diagrams and organization charts
  • Printing
    • Print a document
    • Preview a page before printing
    • Print a folded booklet
    • Print a document to a file
    • Cancel printing
    • Edit text in print preview
    • Troubleshoot printing
    • Set Up Printer
      • Find a printer
      • Set up a new printer
      • Set the default printer
    • Print Options
      • Select a paper source
      • Print property information or other details
      • Prevent a document from printing onto an additional page
      • Check the progress of your print job
      • Scale a document to fit on different paper sizes
      • Print more than one copy
      • Turn on or off background printing
      • Update fields or linked information before you print
      • Use different paper for a part of a document
  • Security and Privacy
    • More about security options and connecting to a server
    • Privacy
      • Microsoft Office Word 2003 Privacy Statement
      • Microsoft Office Activation/Registration Privacy Statement
      • Remove personal or hidden information
    • Security
      • Passwords
        • About using passwords
        • Remove or change a password
        • Require a password to open or modify a file
        • Troubleshoot passwords
      • Digital Signatures
        • About digital signatures
        • Create your own digital certificate
        • Add a digital signature to a file or macro project
        • Remove a digital signature
        • Review digital certificates for a file or macro project
      • Macros
        • About .NET Macro Security
        • Macro security levels
        • Change the security level for macro virus protection
        • Protect against macro viruses
        • Warn about installed templates and add-ins
        • About helping protect files from macro viruses
        • Modify the list of trusted publishers for macros
        • Troubleshoot modifying the list of trusted publishers for macros
        • Troubleshoot macro security and warnings
  • Mass Mailings
    • Create a directory of names, addresses, and other information
    • Envelopes and Labels
      • About creating and printing a single envelope
      • Create and print labels for a mass mailing
      • Insert an address from an electronic address book
      • Specify a default return address
      • Add electronic postage to an envelope or label
      • Create and print a single envelope
      • Create and print envelopes for a mass mailing
      • Customize envelopes
      • Print an envelope that is attached to a document
      • Troubleshoot envelopes and labels
      • Include a POSTNET bar code or FIM-A code on envelopes or labels
      • About creating and printing labels for a single item or address
      • Create and print labels for a single item or address
      • Create custom mailing labels
      • Customize labels
    • Mail Merge
      • Create and distribute merged faxes
      • About mail merge data sources
      • About mail merge for form letters and mass mailings
      • Create and print form letters
      • Data sources you can use for a mail merge
      • Select a different data source for a main document
      • Restore a mail merge main document to a regular document
      • Resume a mail merge
      • Select recipients to include in a mail merge
      • Troubleshoot mail merge
      • About mail-merge fields
      • Add fields to a form letter or other mail-merge document
      • Format merged data
      • Print merged documents
      • Create and distribute merged e-mail messages
  • Word and the Web
    • Add or remove an FTP site from the list of Internet sites
    • Change the logon name or password for an FTP site
    • Creating Web Pages
      • About creating a Web page
      • About using filtered HTML
      • About international characters and symbols on Web pages
      • About single file Web pages (MHTML)
      • Create a Web page
      • Add scrolling text to a Web page
      • Add a title to a Web page
      • Reduce Web page size by filtering HTML
      • Set the font for a Web page or plain-text file that you open
      • Change HTML DIV borders
      • View the HTML source of a Web page
      • Provide alternate text and images for the Web
      • Turn on or off Design mode
      • Preview a document as a Web page
      • Optimize Web pages for a specific browser
      • Turn off features not supported by Web browsers
      • Set the encoding for a Web page
      • Troubleshoot Web pages
    • Frames and Frames Pages
      • About links in Web frames
      • About moving Web frames and frames pages
      • About Web frames
      • Working with frames pages
      • Create a frames page
      • Create a table of contents in a Web frame
      • Name a Web frame
      • Remove a Web frame
      • Resize a Web frame in a frames page
      • Save an individual Web frame
      • Show or hide Web frames borders
      • Turn on or off Web frame resizing
      • Turn on or off scroll bars in a Web frame
      • Troubleshoot Web frames and frames pages
    • Themes
      • About themes
      • Apply a theme
      • Change a theme
      • Choose a default theme
      • Remove a theme
      • Troubleshoot themes
    • Cascading Style Sheets
      • About attaching cascading style sheets
      • Attach cascading style sheets
      • Change the order of cascading style sheets
      • Detach cascading style sheets
      • Specify that only cascading style sheets are used for formatting Web pages
    • Hyperlinks
      • Create a hyperlink
      • Format a hyperlink
      • Change a hyperlink
      • Edit an image that represents a hyperlink
      • Remove a hyperlink
      • Set a hyperlink base
      • Change the default for following hyperlinks
      • About link bars on Web pages
      • Add link bars
      • Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks
      • Change link bars
      • Troubleshoot link bars
    • Movies and Sounds
      • Insert a movie
      • Insert a sound
      • Remove a movie, background sound, or scrolling text from a Web page
    • Web Scripting
      • Scripts
        • About Web scripts
        • Create a Web script on a Web page
        • View or edit a Web script
        • Copy or move a Web script
        • Change the default script language
        • Remove Web scripts from a Web page
        • Show or hide script anchors on a Web page
        • Troubleshoot Web scripts
      • Java Applets
        • About Java applet support
        • Copy or move a Java applet
        • Remove a Java applet from a Web page
    • XML
      • About XML documents in Word
      • Apply or remove XML tags
      • Show or hide XML tags
      • Display XML element names
      • About the Schema Library
      • Add or remove XML schemas in the Schema Library
      • Attach or separate an XML schema and a document
      • Validate XML
      • Insert XML data
      • Define a default data view for an XML document
      • Apply an XSL Transformation
      • Save an XML document
      • Set default save options for XML files
      • Prevent accidental deletion of XML elements
      • Troubleshoot XML in Word
    • Browsing and Searching Web Pages
      • Speed up downloading Web pages by using Vector Markup Language
      • View your Web start page
      • Change your Web start page
      • Change your Web search page
      • Cancel the display of a Web page or hyperlink
      • Refresh the display of the active file or Web page
      • Show only Web toolbar buttons
    • Research Services
      • About research services
      • Add or change research services
      • Look up words in the dictionary
      • Look up words in the thesaurus
      • Research search tips
      • Reference Encarta Encyclopedia
    • Translation Services
      • About translation services
      • Translate text
  • Sharing Information
    • With Other People
      • Markup
        • About tracked changes and comments
        • About saving, sending, or editing a document with tracked changes
        • About displaying tracked changes and comments
        • Add or change the name used in comments
        • Track changes while you edit
        • Turn off change tracking
        • Review tracked changes and comments
        • Show or hide the Reviewing Pane
        • Insert a comment
        • Modify a comment
        • Delete a comment
        • Display changes or comments by type or reviewer
        • See the date or reviewer name for a tracked change or comment
        • Show or hide comments or tracked changes
        • Change the way tracked changes and comments look
        • Add or remove document protection for comments and tracked changes
        • Print a document with tracked changes and comments showing
        • Print a list of changes made to a document
        • Troubleshoot comments, tracked changes, and compared and merged documents
      • Comparing and Merging Documents
        • About comparing and merging documents
        • Compare and merge documents
        • Merge comments and changes from several reviewers into one document
        • Compare documents with the Legal blackline option
      • Information Rights Management
        • About Information Rights Management
        • Create content with restricted permission
        • View content with restricted permission
        • Troubleshoot content with restricted permission
      • Document Protection
        • Protect a document from unauthorized changes
        • Allow editing in a protected document
        • Remove restricted permission from content
        • Restrict formatting of a document
        • Add or remove document protection for comments and tracked changes
      • Sending for Review
        • About sending a file for review
        • Respond to a review request
        • End a review cycle
        • Troubleshoot sending a file for review
      • Fax Services
        • About fax services
        • Send a fax
      • Preserve Document Appearance
        • About preserving a document's original appearance
        • Turn on or off features introduced in recent versions of Word
        • Preserve original appearance for viewing or printing
        • Results of saving Word 2003 documents in other file formats
      • Working with People Using Different Versions of Word
        • Strategies for sharing documents with different versions of Word
      • Using Forms
        • About printed forms and forms for use in Word
        • Office programs you can use to create an online or printed form
        • Create forms that users complete in Word
        • Create a printed form
        • Add form fields to a form
        • Types of text form fields
        • Add, remove, or change the order of items in a drop-down list
        • Add Help text to a form
        • Change the text formatting of a form
        • Set or edit form field properties
        • Print the data from a form in Word
        • Save form data for use in a database or spreadsheet
        • Show or hide shading in forms
        • Automate your form
        • Protect a form
        • Remove protection from a form
        • ActiveX controls you can use on a form
        • Add ActiveX controls to a form
        • Change properties in an ActiveX control
        • Register a new ActiveX control
        • About Web forms
        • Create a Web form
        • Form controls you can use on a Web page
        • Modify the properties of a Web form control
        • Troubleshoot forms
      • Online Meetings
        • About online meetings
        • Start an unscheduled online meeting
        • Accept a request for an online meeting
        • Schedule an online meeting
        • View a list of participants in an online meeting
        • Add a participant to an online meeting
        • Remove a participant from an online meeting
        • Open Chat in an online meeting
        • Change a file in an online meeting
        • End an online meeting
        • Send a file to participants in an online meeting
        • Troubleshoot online meetings
        • Open the Whiteboard in an online meeting
      • Shared Workspaces
        • About Document Workspaces
        • About shared workspaces
        • Create a Document Workspace
        • Delete a Document Workspace
        • Keep a Document Workspace document up to date
        • Stop being prompted to get updates for a document
        • Troubleshoot shared workspaces
      • Web Discussions
        • Get help about Web Discussions
        • About Web Discussions
        • About system requirements for discussions and subscriptions
        • Select a discussion server
        • Print discussions
        • Reply to, edit, or delete a discussion comment
        • Close a discussion
        • Permissions for discussions and subscriptions
        • Filter discussions
      • Subscriptions
        • About receiving notification of changes to a file or discussion
        • Subscribe to be notified of changes to a file or discussion
        • Cancel subscription to a file or discussion
    • With Other Programs
      • Working with Microsoft Access
        • Insert data from Access or other data source
        • Import a Word text file into Access
        • More about Office data connection and data retrieval service connection files
        • More about data sources
      • Working with Microsoft Excel
        • Use Microsoft Query to retrieve data from an external data source
      • Working with Microsoft PowerPoint
        • Create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline
      • Sending E-Mail Messages and Documents
        • Troubleshoot sending e-mail messages and documents
        • Working with Microsoft Outlook
          • About using Word as your e-mail editor
          • Create or modify e-mail signatures
          • Turn Word on or off as your e-mail editor or viewer
          • Change the default font for e-mail messages
          • Delete or stop using e-mail signatures
          • Reduce e-mail message size by filtering HTML
          • About plain text messages
          • About Cc and Bcc
          • Show or hide the Bcc field
          • Show or hide the From box in a message
          • Add voting buttons to a message
          • Use voting buttons
          • About tracking when messages are delivered or read
          • Receive notifications when messages are delivered or read
          • About automatically checking recipient names before sending a message
          • Turn off automatic name checking and completion
        • Sending Documents by E-Mail
          • Send a document in e-mail
          • Post a file to an Exchange folder
      • Using Word and WordPerfect
        • Using WordPerfect and Word
      • Linking Objects and Embedding Objects
        • About inserting information by creating a linked object or an embedded object
        • Insert information by creating a linked object or embedded object
        • Edit a linked object or an embedded object
        • Change the appearance of a linked object or embedded object
        • Control how linked objects are updated
        • Reconnect a linked object
        • Update linked objects when you print a document
        • Troubleshoot linked objects and embedded objects
        • Convert an embedded object to a file of another source program
        • Equations
          • Insert an equation
          • Edit an equation
          • Troubleshoot Equation Editor
  • Automating Tasks and Programmability
    • Smart Tags
      • About smart tags
      • Use smart tags
      • Change smart tag options
      • Check for new smart tags
      • Remove smart tags
      • Troubleshoot smart tags
    • Smart Documents
      • About smart documents
      • Add or delete a smart document XML expansion pack
      • Change the XML expansion pack attached to a smart document
    • Macros
      • About macros
      • Create a macro
      • Create a macro to automatically display ASK fields
      • Delete macros
      • Edit a macro
      • Pause and restart recording a macro
      • Run a macro
      • Rename macros
      • Copy macros to another document or template
      • Troubleshoot recording and running macros
    • Field Types and Switches
      • Using Fields
        • About fields
        • Change a field result to regular text
        • Display a list of AutoText entries
        • Keep
        • Edit a field
        • Format field results
        • Insert a field
        • Insert a bookmark field
        • Lock or unlock a field
        • Create a dictionary-style page header
        • Switch between field codes and results
        • Update fields to show the latest results
        • Change shaded background of fields
        • Troubleshoot fields
      • Field Reference
        • Fields for use with forms
        • Embedding PostScript printer commands in a Word document
        • Examples of IF fields
        • Field Code - A
          • Field codes: AddressBlock field
          • Field codes: Advance field
          • Field codes: Ask field
          • Field codes: Author field
          • Field codes: AutoNum field
          • Field codes: AutoNumLgl field
          • Field codes: AutoNumOut field
          • Field codes: AutoText field
          • Field codes: AutoTextList field
        • Field Code - B-E
          • Field codes: BarCode field
          • Field codes: Comments field
          • Field codes: Compare field
          • Field codes: CreateDate field
          • Field codes: Database field
          • Field codes: Date field
          • Field codes: DocProperty field
          • Field codes: DocVariable field
          • Field codes: EditTime field
          • Field codes: Embed field
          • Field codes: Eq (Equation) field
        • Field Code - F-I
          • Field codes: FileName field
          • Field codes: FileSize field
          • Field codes: Fill-in field
          • Field codes: GoToButton field
          • Field codes: GreetingLine field
          • Field codes: Hyperlink field
          • Field codes: If field
          • Field codes: IncludePicture field
          • Field codes: IncludeText field
          • Field codes: Index field
          • Field codes: Info field
        • Field Code - K-M
          • Field codes: Keywords field
          • Field codes: LastSavedBy field
          • Field codes: Link field
          • Field codes: ListNum field
          • Field codes: MacroButton field
          • Field codes: MergeField field
          • Field codes: MergeRec field
          • Field codes: MergeSeq field
        • Field Code - N-Q
          • Field codes: Next field
          • Field codes: NextIf field
          • Field codes: NoteRef field
          • Field codes: NumChars field
          • Field codes: NumPages field
          • Field codes: NumWords field
          • Field codes: Page field
          • Field codes: PageRef field
          • Field codes: Print field
          • Field codes: PrintDate field
          • Field codes: Private field
          • Field codes: Quote field
        • Field Code - R-S
          • Field codes: RD (Referenced Document) field
          • Field codes: Ref field
          • Field codes: RevNum field
          • Field codes: SaveDate field
          • Field codes: Section field
          • Field codes: SectionPages field
          • Field codes: Seq (Sequence) field
          • Field codes: Set field
          • Field codes: SkipIf field
          • Field codes: StyleRef field
          • Field codes: Subject field
          • Field codes: Symbol field
        • Field Code - T-X
          • Field codes: TA (Table of Authorities Entry) field
          • Field codes: TC (Table of Contents Entry) field
          • Field codes: Template field
          • Field codes: Time field
          • Field codes: Title field
          • Field codes: TOA (Table of Authorities) field
          • Field codes: TOC (Table of Contents) field
          • Field codes: UserAddress field
          • Field codes: UserInitials field
          • Field codes: UserName field
          • Field codes: XE (Index Entry) field
        • Switches
          • Date-Time Picture (\@) field switch
          • Field codes: = (Formula) field
          • Format (\*) field switch
          • Format switches for text comparisons by IF fields
          • Lock Result (\!) field switch
          • Numeric Picture (\#) field switch
  • Language-Specific Features
    • Language Setup
      • About Microsoft Proofing Tools
      • About the global interface and Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
      • About multilingual features in Office
      • Change the language format of text
      • Install system support for multiple languages
      • Requirements for specific languages
      • Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
      • Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
      • Change the default country/region
      • Enable editing of multiple languages
      • Change the default language setting
      • Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
      • Troubleshoot multilingual text
      • Change the language of the user interface or Help in Office programs
      • Encoded Text Files and Unicode
        • Install the universal font for Unicode
        • About encoded text files
        • Encoding standards for opening and saving files
        • Automatically correct the encoding of Chinese and Korean text
        • Save a file as encoded text
        • Type Unicode characters by using the keyboard
        • Troubleshoot encoded text files
      • Automatic Language Detection
        • About automatic font switching
        • About automatic language detection
        • Automatically detect languages
        • Automatically switch keyboard languages
        • Languages Word can detect automatically
        • Troubleshoot automatic language detection
    • East Asian
      • Word features for East Asian languages
      • Adjust line breaks for East Asian text
      • Add phonetic guides to text
      • Apply borders, shading, or scaling to East Asian characters
      • Change vertical text to horizontal in a vertical East Asian document
      • Reconvert Japanese, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese text
      • Combine East Asian characters
      • Compress two lines in one for East Asian text
      • Insert vertical text in a horizontal East Asian document
      • Set characters and lines per page for East Asian text
      • Set wordwrap for Latin words in East Asian text
      • Review a file by using Reconversion
      • Input Method Editors (IMEs)
        • About Input Method Editors (IMEs)
        • About Microsoft Natural Input
        • Install an Input Method Editor (IME)
        • Add a word to an Input Method Editor (IME) dictionary
        • Set the default Input Method Editor (IME)
      • Simplified Chinese
        • About creating a Simplified Chinese document
        • Add words to a Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese custom dictionary
        • Convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese and vice versa
        • Sort Simplified or Traditional Chinese text
      • Traditional Chinese
        • About creating a Traditional Chinese document
        • Add words to a Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese custom dictionary
        • Convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese and vice versa
        • Sort Simplified or Traditional Chinese text
      • Japanese
        • About creating a Japanese document
        • Work in Japanese Genko mode
        • Use the Japanese Consistency Checker
        • Add greetings, openings, and closings to Japanese letters or memos
        • Add emphasis marks to Japanese characters
        • Switch between hiragana and katakana in Japanese text
        • Switch between half-width and full-width Japanese characters
        • Adjust character spacing between Japanese and Latin text or numbers
        • Search Japanese text
        • Japanese Input Method Editor options
        • Register words in a Japanese Input Method Editor dictionary
        • Using the Extended Formatting toolbar to work with Japanese text
      • Korean
        • About creating a Korean document
        • Set Korean spelling options
        • Add or delete Hanja in a custom dictionary
        • Convert Hangul to Hanja
        • Convert Hanja to Hangul
        • Set Hangul and Hanja conversion options
        • Look up Hanja in the Hanja dictionary
    • South Asian
      • About code page and text layout support for South Asian Web pages
      • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
      • About macros in South Asian documents
      • Check the correct sequence of South Asian text
      • Find and replace special South Asian characters
      • Select diacritics or ligated characters
      • Replace invalid South Asian characters automatically
      • Keyboard shortcuts for South Asian formatting
      • Specify how dates and numbers appear in South Asian documents
      • Specify South Asian font characteristics
      • Delete diacritics, ligatures, and special marks in South Asian text
      • Word features for South Asian languages
      • Use diacritics
      • Thai
        • About creating a Thai document
        • Justify Thai text
      • Vietnamese
        • About creating a Vietnamese document
    • Indic
      • Convert Indic language text files from Unicode to ISCII
      • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
      • Convert Indic language text files from ISCII to Unicode
      • About creating an Indic language document
      • Word features for Indic languages
      • About code page and text layout support for Indic language Web pages
      • Specify Indic language font characteristics
      • Specify how dates and numbers appear in Indic language documents
      • Check the correct sequence of Indic language text
      • Replace invalid Indic language characters automatically
    • Right-to-Left
      • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
      • Word features for right-to-left languages
      • About creating a Farsi, Urdu, or other right-to-left document
      • Keyboard shortcuts for right-to-left formatting
      • Create or modify a style for right-to-left text
      • Change paragraph direction
      • Select diacritics or ligated characters
      • Specify spelling options for right-to-left languages
      • Use control characters for right-to-left text
      • Use tables in right-to-left documents
      • Specify how numbers and dates appear in right-to-left documents
      • Set the gutter location for right-to-left documents
      • Set insertion point behavior for right-to-left text
      • Find and replace special right-to-left characters
      • Insert a right-to-left or left-to-right mark
      • Specify the direction of sections in right-to-left documents
      • Specify the view direction for the entire document
      • Use diacritics
      • Use complex fonts
      • Arabic
        • About creating an Arabic document
        • Specify kashida length in Arabic text
      • Hebrew
        • About creating a Hebrew document
        • Add double quotes to Hebrew number formats
    • European
      • About creating a European language document
      • Word features for European languages
      • Enforce accented uppercase characters
      • Turn on or off new German spelling rules
      • Georgian and Armenian
        • About creating a Georgian or Armenian document

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