It’s been a while since Office 2007 was released. Although many people know how to use the ribbon and how to write a document with some tables and images, a lot of handy features are not used.
In this article, I’ll introduce 5 nice functionalities that save time and therefor increase your performance
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5 tips for Word 2007 to maximize your performance
“This patch package could not be opened” at uninstall of Office 2003
When you try to uninstall Office 2003, the following error may occur
This patch package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer patch package.
I faced this error yesterday, after a failed upgrade to Office 2007. My computer hang at the point “uninstalling office 2003“.
Normal.dot already in use when starting Microsoft Word
While there is an document already opened in Microsoft Word, you may get an error that the “Normal.dot” file is already in use when opening an second Word document. This makes sense, because an instance of Microsoft Word is already active.
Compile Error in Hidden Module: Autoexec in Word 2003 or Word 2007
After installation of Adobe Professional 7, 8 or 9, you may get the following error when you start Word 2003 or Word 2007:
“Compile Error in Hidden Module: Autoexec”
The cause of this error is PDFMaker.dot, which loads at startup. Since Adobe Professional 8 uses DLL-addins to add the toolbar in Excel, you can safely delete the PDFMaker.dot file on your computer.
Sometimes PDFMaker.dot is located in your profile directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PDFMaker.dot
Other times, PDFMaker.dot can be located in your Program Files directory.
Compile Error in Hidden Module: Distmon in Excel 2003 and 2007
If you have installed Excel 2003/2007 and Adobe Professional 7, 8 or 9, you may get the following error when you start Excel 2003 or Excel 2007:
"Compile Error in Hidden Module: Distmon" 
Cause:
The cause of this error is PDFMaker.xla, which loads at startup.