Sure, Google can search by file type, and even preview some files as HTML. But DocJax is built for just the docs, ma'am, and offers a more robust preview of everything it finds. DocJax understands most of the search box tricks you learned over at that other, dominant engine, so site:microsoft.com ou...

You can't put all the world's knowledge in that report you're writing, so you'd like to point to a few related Web sites. Good idea. Rather than reproducing the URL and making people copy and paste it themselves, you'd like to make it a real link, putting those resources just a click away. But you d...

Hyphenation prevents a word from breaking if it falls at the end of a line. Word supports both automatic and manual hyphenation. With manual hyphenation, Word searches your document for text to hyphenate and prompts you to confirm each proposed optional hyphen. To manually hyphenate text in Word 200...

Windows only: Microsoft's Creative Commons Add-in for Office licenses your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an easy drop-drop menu—so you can set the appropriate license in a couple of clicks. Once installed, the add-on is extremely easy to use—just check the new Creative Common...

A lot of people don't like the new ribbon interface in Office 2007. There's been several discussions about this over the last year in the wordpc-l mailing list, for example. The general consensus seems to be that it's easier for new users, but harder for power users. You can use the Quick Launch too...

I got a request from a marketer that I link to his product from this blog: Interference for MATLAB From him: Inference is a Microsoft Office add-in that has a point-and-click interface for adding MATLAB code, .m files, and structured data to Word and Excel documents. If you use Microsoft Office, Inf...

Hyphenation prevents a word from breaking if it falls at the end of a line. Word supports both automatic and manual hyphenation. With automatic hyphenation, Word inserts hyphens where required and updates them when changes are made to the document. To hyphenate an entire document in Word 2002: From ...

As you are working on your document, Word automatically saves a temporary copy of it in the event that you run into computer problems. This is referred to as AutoRecover. When Word saves an AutoRecover file, it is saved in the same directory as the original document. You can have Word save your Auto...

Windows only: We love Office 2007's ribbon for its impressive keyboard shortcut integration, but for those of you who miss the Microsoft Office 2003 menu that's entrenched in your muscle memory, UBitMenu can help. This plug-in adds a new Menu entry to the Office 2007 ribbon (specifically in Word, Ex...

No need to copy all the text of that Dutch document or Portugese PDF and paste it into Google Translate. The free service can now translate entire files if you give it the URL. Whether a file has been indexed by Google's search servers or not, paste in the link to the document, and Google Translate ...