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Here are 10 top tips which we think will make you an Office 2007 formatting genius!

1. Reuse styles from an existing Word document, just click the Office button- ->New- ->New from existing format. Choose your word document and click ‘Create new’. This essentially makes a copy of the original document that you can modify to your hearts content without affecting the original.

    

2. Save a Style Set in Word. Style sets are things like font styles, font sizes, font colours, page layouts all together in one set ready to use. Just select change styles on the ‘home’ tab on the interface in Microsoft word. Click ‘Style Set’ –> ‘Save As Quick Style Set’. Then just simply name it and click ‘Save’.
3. Use Word 2007′s Pre-styled Text Box’s. Office has made some of the formatting easier for you with a selection of pre-styled text boxes. To use a pre-styled text box click insert on the fluent menu interface, click ‘Text Box’ and then choose your desired style.
4. Give your Word documents an Office Theme. All you need to do is click the ‘Page Layout’ tab on the fluent interface in your Word 2007 and click ‘Themes’. Then select your desired theme by clicking on it. Some examples are, ‘Flow’ and ‘Aspect’.
5. Change the Zoom on Excel, PowerPoint and Word with a Slide. Its now ultra easy to adjust the zoom on you Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007 documents, all you do is slide the Zoom Bar from the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
6. Excel 2007 Page Layout View. Click the ‘View tab’ then Page LayoutView’. It is a very easy way to check what you can fit on each page when it comes to printing and also to add a header/footer.
7. Make you Excel 2007 Data into a Table. Just choose the data you wish to be made into a table. Click ‘Format As Table’ from the ‘Styles’ group of the’Home’ tab. Pick the table style you want and then Excel automatically creates and formats the table for you.
8. Create PowerPoint slides from Word 2007!? It sounds quite surreal doesn’t it! In PowerPoint 2007, select the ‘Home Tab. Click ‘New Slide’ –> and then ‘Slides from Outline’. Double-click on the Word file that you want to copy. Then select the ‘Outline tab’ on the left hand side of the screen in PowerPoint to get rid of any unwanted text.
9. Create your very own custom PowerPoint 2007 slide layout! Select the ‘View’ tab in PowerPoint 2007, then click ‘Slide Master’. Scroll down and click just below the last layout. Click ‘Insert Layout’ in the ‘Edit Master’ group which is in the ‘Slide Master’ tab. Delete any unwanted placeholders and then select ‘Insert Placeholder’. Click the ‘Office Button’ –> Save As then choose a ‘PowerPoint Template’ from the ‘Save As’ Type field.
10. Re-use slides from a SharePoint slide library. On the home tab click on the arrow beneath ‘New Slide’. Then click ‘Reuse Slides’ followed by ‘Open A Slide Library’ which is in the reuse slides area. Now double-click the SharePoint site where you saved the slides.

With all the different Office packages available, we have put together a diagram which we think will help you to make the right decision of which version is best for you! Click on the image to make it viewable!

Please let us know if you have any thoughts!