Fun with Ms Word

Know How To Close Microsoft Word - Tutorial 2

noreply@blogger.com (Sri Sri) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:28:00 +0000

There are many ways to close or terminate or stop microsoft word document. Below are some of the methods that will be useful.

Method 1:

Clicking the X icon, the rightmost icon on the title bar

Method 2:

Clicking the Office (word) Button at the top left corner and selecting the Close icon.

Method 3:

Clicking the File button and the Exit word command at the bottom.

Method 4:

Using the keyboard command ALT + F4.

Method 5:

Start Task Manager

a) Applications - Highlight the word document that needs to be closed and click on end task.
b) Applications - Highlight the word document that needs to be closed, right click, select "Go to process" and "End Process".

Note: If any changes are made to word document and then terminating it in any way will prompt you whether or not to save your changes. If the work is not saved already then there are three options:
a) Save and close,
b) Don't save and close
c) Cancel the close / exit / termination command itself and return to microsoft word to proceed further with the changes.

Method 6:

If you want to close microsoft word using macro script, use .Quit command. Find below a small sample vbs script that opens a new microsoft word document and closes it.

a) Open a notepad.
b) Paste the below code

Set newWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

newWord.Visible = True
newWord.Documents.Add

newWord.Quit

c) Save the file as "WinWordStartQuit.vbs" in a known location or desktop.
d) Double click vbs file to open new word document and terminate it.

Know How To Start Microsoft Word - Tutorial 1

noreply@blogger.com (Sri Sri) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:39:00 +0000

There are many ways to open a new word document. Below are some of the methods that will be useful assuming Microsoft Office is installed

Method 1:

Click Start | All Programs | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Word 2007 / 2010

Method 2:

Click Start | Run | winword

Method 3:

Right Click Start | Open Windows Explorer | Go to \Program Files (or) Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 | WINWORD.exe

Also,

The typical location of the WINWORD.exe file depends on what version you have installed.

Microsoft Office Word 2003

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11

Microsoft Office Word 2007

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

Microsoft Office Word 2010

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

Tip 1: Store a shortcut of winword.exe on the desktop and double click to start the Word.
Tip 2: If winword.exe is not found in the above locations then follow the below procedure to find the winword.exe:
Click Start - Search - Files or Folders - search for 'winword.exe' - Look in 'My Computer'.

Method 4:

To start word in safe mode (generally used when microsoft program is corrupted) and see safe mode in the title bar

Click Start | Run | winword.exe /safe

Note: Path changes based on the version of the word as mentioned in Method 3.

Method 5:

To start word without running automatic macros (AutoNew etc.,.), hold down SHIFT while you start microsoft word.
(OR)
Click Start | Run | winword.exe /m

Method 6:

If you want to open word document using macro script, then follow the below procedure:

a) Open a notepad.
b) Paste the below code

Set newWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

newWord.Visible = True
newWord.Documents.Add

c) Save the file as "WinWordStart.vbs" in a known location or desktop.
d) Double click vbs file to open new word document.

Latest Open Questions on Microsoft Word in Yahoo Answers

noreply@blogger.com (Sri Sri) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +0000

As I have explained in my post “Recently Added Questions in Yahoo Answers”, I want to organize the things that I have explored from web in a good manner so that it will be useful for me and for all of us, today and even in future. As a first step I am picking questions on Microsoft Word from Yahoo answers and displaying them here.

As described in the above post I can only provide a snapshot of those questions here, Yahoo Answers is still the source for all these questions, so if you have to ask a question or answer these questions you need to have a Yahoo id and log into Yahoo answers for doing that. Coming to the open questions now, check the below.

I hope this was useful to you all. Candid feedback is always welcome.