Ignore the auto complete suggestions for the current date(Word XP, 2003)

            The moment you write the current year, Word will give you the date. You can ignore this suggestion altogether.

            Open the menu command “Tools | AutoCorrect Options” to change this mode. Open the tab “Auto Text” in the next dialog and disable the option “Show AutoComplete Suggestions”. Confirm using “OK”. In any case, 2003 onwards Word has done away with the AutoText option for Suggestions of AutoComplete.

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Underline text passages in Word in a different color(Word XP, 2003, 2010)

              If you want to underline text in Word, the text editing uses the same color for it as the text. But you want to underline the text in a different color.

              Select the text passages to be underlined and open the menu command “Format | Font” and then select the desired format in the “Underline” combination field. With “Only words”, you can determine that Word only underlines the words from the selection without spaces. All other types, underline the entire selection including the spaces. In that, you can select from various underlining types. As soon as you make a selection different from “(none)”, Word activates the “Color” combination box to the right. Select the color that Word is supposed to use for underlining. Confirm your selection with “OK”. However, the changed formatting only applies to the currently selected text passage. If you subsequently underline other text passages with [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[U] or with the button in the toolbar, the text editing again uses the color of the text.

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Look for certain elements specifically in large documents(Word 2003, 2007, 2010)

              Every now and then, you look for the next table or the next footnote in larger files. For that, you either have to go through the trouble of advanced search for formatting or special formatting.
              Word has a highly efficient special search option that is hardly known to many people. The icon for which is very inconspicuous and is placed right below the scrollbar, in the form of a circle icon with two double arrows above and below it.

              First click the circle icon and select what you are looking for in the dialog that pops up. From here you can quickly access the “Go to” and “Search”, options. While with the help of the other icons, you can specifically search for graphics, tables, fields, footnotes or endnotes. Furthermore, you can search for editing or comments in the text, and browse through the contents section by section or page by page.
              After selecting the mode, you can now search forward or backward for the next suitable element in the document using the respective double arrow icons. The navigation also functions with the keyboard with the [Ctrl] key pressed using the scroll keys. This type of browsing between sections, pages, graphics or other elements allows for a very efficient navigation, especially when working on larger documents.

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Stop auto suggestions in Word(Word XP, 2003)

             As soon as you type the current year, Word replaces it with the current date. However, you do not want to accept this suggestion.

             In order to change, open the menu command "Tools | AutoCorrect Options". Click on the tab “Auto text” and deactivate the option “Show AutoComplete Suggestions” and confirm with “OK”.

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Hyperlink Manager for Word(Word 2003, 2007)

            Manage the hyperlinks in your Word document and check for accuracy.

            If you are writing a report, which has a lot of hyperlinks then checking them for accuracy can be quite a task. Instead of manually checking each hyperlink, you can download the Hyperlink Checker for Word. It can be downloaded form http://www.ablebits.com/word-hyperlink-manager-addins/index.php. Once installed start Word 2003, right click on the toolbar and check on the Ablebits.com toolbar. In the toolbar click on the Hyperlink Checker button, it will instantly check the documents for the hyperlinks and display the result. Although it doesn’t check if the link is active, it basically connects the linked word to the website or document name. This way you can make sure that you have linked the right word with the right website without manually going through every hyperlink in your document.

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Change the default Save Location.(Word 2003, 2007, 2010)

             You can change the default location where the files are saved in Word 2007, 2010.

             By default Word saves the files in My Documents folder. You can easily change the location where you want Word to save your files. In Word 2003, go to Tools tab, here select Options. Then select the File Locations Tab, under here you will see the various options. From here you can change the default location, by specifying a new path. In Word 2007, click on the Office button and then select Word Options. Here select Save, which will show you several options. Now here you can change the default file location. In 2010, select the File tab and then go to Options to change the default file location.

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