Windows Live Translator is now available for Office 2007 applications. Currently Word 2007 has in-built translation tool provided by WorldLingo. This new integration is part of user feedback and currently integration has to be done manually. But subsequently there are plans to offer the additional feature as an update.

The feature is really easy to use, [...]

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If you are having a Windows Live Hotmail or Windows Live mail account, you can configure it to access it using Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Office Outlook Connector is a free application with which you can use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail [...]

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Microsoft has released a Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 which enables you to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.

The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the [...]

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Many time we come across documents or website which are not in English and hence we need to translate them to read it. Office 2007 has a built in translator which can convert text or sentences for most of the popular languages. This feature is available for Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio and Word. [...]

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Keyboards shortcuts always improves your productivity and while working with few documents today I was exploring the keyboard shortcuts available for Word 2007. Compiled here is the complete list of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word, which is applicable to Word 2002, 2003 and 2007.

All Caps
CTRL+SHIFT+A

Annotation
ALT+CTRL+M

App Maximize
ALT+F10

App Restore
ALT+F5

Apply Heading1
ALT+CTRL+1

Apply Heading2
ALT+CTRL+2

Apply Heading3
ALT+CTRL+3

Apply List Bullet
CTRL+SHIFT+L

Auto Format
ALT+CTRL+K

Auto Text
F3 or [...]

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When you want to mention that a document is confidential or a draft copy, its always good to add a watermark to the document. Watermarks informs people about the document and since they are transparent in color, they sit behind and don’t divert people’s attention from the document’s content.
Watermarks are mainly intended for printed documents [...]

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Microsoft Office Online provides free templates for resumes, letters, invitations, envelopes, receipts, reports and many more.  You can download these templates for free from Office live website. Alternatively these can be downloaded using Office 2007. The advantage of using Office 2007 for downloading the templates is that its in well arranged formats and locating documents [...]

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