How-to Articles

• Imbedding Your PowerPoint Slides in your Word Docs

• How do I get Word to Stop Helping Me Type?

• Microsoft Office Picture Manager

• Symbols in Microsoft Word

Imbedding your PowerPoint Slides in your Word Docs
By Sheri Sense

Why re-invent the wheel?  If you’ve already created your PowerPoint slides and have a great slide that you want to use in a Word document (such as a graph, chart, etc.), you don’t have to re-do thie information.  Instead, just embed a copy of the entire slide in your Word document.

Here’s how:  First, open the presentation in PowerPoint. In the Slides pane (or in Slide Sorter view), select the slide you want to copy, and then click the Copy button. Now, switch to your Word document. Position the insertion point where you want the slide to appear, and then click the Paste button to add the slide. You can edit the slide within the Word document by double-clicking on it and then making your changes. The original presentation is unaffected.

To change the embedded slide's size and layout, select it and then choose Format/Object.  Then, make the desired changes, and click OK.  

How do I get Word to Stop Helping Me Type?
By Sheri Sense 

There are several places to look to turn off Word's various automatic features:

1. Choose AutoCorrect (or AutoCorrect Options) from the Tools menu, and then click on the AutoCorrect tab.
2. Clear the check boxes for the AutoCorrect items that you want to disable.
3. Do the same for the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
4. On the AutoText tab, clear the Show AutoComplete tip check box.
5. Choose Options from the Tools menu, then click on the tabs and clear any check boxes for features that you want to disable. For example:

• Insert tab (Insert/paste pictures as: “In Line with Text” or “Tight” or “Behind Text”, etc.).