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Although it’s pretty basic, I didn’t know about this “secret” and therefor I’d like to share it with you: the random text in Word!
Typing the following in Word will add a random text:
=rand(5)
This text is readible for most people.
However, if you want some Latin, you can type:
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
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.
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.
In Office 2007, we have the possibility to personalize our Quick Access Toolbar (extension: qat). Every modification, that differs from the default Quick Access Toolbar, will be saved in the following directory C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office (where %username% must be replaced by your current login name)