Making Full Use of Office Word 2010

If you already have an Office 2010 product key, then it’s time to make full use of the platform. One of its most prominent apps is Microsoft Word. This has become a very popular word processing app and it has been used since the early 90’s. It is used in businesses, schools, universities and homes. It is, of course relatively easy to use – but there are certain things you can do to optimize your use of the suite.

Here are some useful tips for making full use of Office 2010 in Word.

Number one, you can open the Office window using two different views. This tip may work well for both Word and Excel. If you split the document window into two separate panes, you can look into and edit two different parts of a document simultaneously. If you are a student, you can work on the first chapter of your thesis at the top pane and you may also work on the last chapter and the bottom pane at the same time.  Just click the mouse to jump between the different panes or hit F6 so that you can toggle between the two panes, the status bar and also the Ribbon.

Second, you can move certain shapes and hide them in Office Word 2010.  If you are a PowerPoint user, you may be familiar with this. In using Word 2010, however – as you insert multiple shapes in a Word document or a worksheet on Excel, one of the best ways to move them forward or back is to use the Selection Pane. This is found on the Drawing Tools tab every time you are working with graphics.

Third, you can merge landscape and portraits in Word. If you intend to format your document as a portrait, then you may not change the orientation in the same document. What you can do is insert a section break right before and after the text that you intend to format in landscape. Then what you do next is apply the landscape orientation to begin.  Go to the Page Layout tab and select Breaks, then beneath Section Breaks click on New Page. The insertion point should be moved towards the end of the text you intend to view as landscape. From there, insert a break. Then you can position the insertion point anywhere around the two breaks. Go to the Page Setup dialog located on the Margins tab. This is when you select Landscape and go to the “Apply to” drop-down. Click This Section by the time you get to that tab.

These are just some of the things you can do with MS Word after you already have your Office 2010 product key. Go ahead and experiment with the apps in Office, you are sure to discover cool new features that will help improve your workflow.