Use word processing for publishing content in blogs(Word 2007, 2010)

               You write new articles for a blog now and then. For this, most of the times you first type in the article in Microsoft word and then step by step copy it on to the form given on the relevant website.
               The standard Word supports direct publishing of an article onto a blog. For this, you will first need to set up the necessary access data and then begin writing a new blog article using the suitable template of your choice. For this, you just need to have a blog set up. You can do this via services such as Wordpress, Blogger, etc..

                Now, go to Word and follow the path “File | New”. Select the option “Blog Post” from the available templates and then right-click on “Create”. A new window will open, wherein you will get a dialog for registration. Here, click on “Register now”. In the next step, select the name of the blog service you signed up for, for example, “WordPress” in the combination field and click on “Next”.
               You will now be provided with a link in the next dialog. Edit the entry for “Blog Post URL” in such a way that it will be displayed as your own blog. Just make sure that the suffix “xmlrpc. php” remains unchanged, otherwise the registration would fail. You will also need to add the login data in the “User name” and “Password” fields. Next, activate the option to “Save password” and confirm this step by clocking on “OK”.
                In case an error message pops up check the spellings in the access data as well as the exact form of the URL. In addition to this, the access over the API must also be stated in the blog. Now, you can simply write and save the blog article in the same way as you would save a Word document. You can directly publish the article on to the blog by clicking the “Publish” button available in the “Blog Post” tab. You can even manage the blogs over “Manage Accounts” tab when you want to manage more blogs. You can even edit the already published articles comfortably over the “Open existing” option.
Note: It may so happen that Word cannot be accessed at all times when there are changes at the server end at the blog providers or updates in Word. At the moment there isn’t any general solution found for this problem. In such a case you can switch to a special blog editor like say Windows Live Writer.

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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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Make drives invisible in Windows Explorer(Windows XP, Vista, 7)

             You save private data on an extra drive that is supposed to be kept away from nosy people. The optional password protection that you can install is however not sufficient as a security measure. You can make certain drives invisible. This will still allow you to access them, but these volumes are absolutely not visible in Explorer. This can be done via Windows tools via a registry entry.

              For that, enter ‘regedit’ in the search field of the Start menu and press the [Enter] key. Confirm the user account control question with ‘Yes’ or ‘Next’. Navigate to the key ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer’. Then click in the right part of the dialog and generate the entry ‘NoDrives’ with the command ‘Edit | New | DWORD-value’. Then open this entry for editing by double clicking.
               The value required now depends on which drive or drives you want to hide. This basically functions as per a bit pattern, wherein every bit stands for a drive starting with ‘A:’. To hide a specific drive, first determine which letter of the alphabet the drive name is. For the ‘H:’ drive, it is the eighth letter. As the value, you will now require the eighth bit, which decimally corresponds to the value 2(8-1) = 128. You can thus determine a corresponding value for every drive. To hide multiple drives, add all individual values. For example, if you want to hide the B, H and J drives, you will need the following values: 2(2-1)=2, 2(8-1)=128 and 2(10-1)=512. These add up to 642. For that, activate the ‘Decimal’ option in the dialog for ‘Base’ and then enter the calculated value. Confirm your entries with ‘OK’ and close the registry. The drives will no longer be visible when you start Windows Explorer next.
Note: Hiding the drives does not have any effect on the ability of programs to access them. Moreover, it will still be possible to access the hidden drives by directly entering the relevant drive letter in the address bar in Windows Explorer.

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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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Save and transfer personalized menu bar configuration(Office 2010)

              You have customized the menu bar of the new Office versions and have added personalized functions to it. You now want to save this confi guration or want to transfer it to other computers.

              You can export individual settings of the menu bar to a file. This is done separately for each Office program. Select ‘File | Options’ in Word and select the ‘Customize Ribbon’ option. Click the ‘Import/export’ button in the lower right of the dialog and ‘Export all customizations’. Navigate to the desired folder and retain the suggested file name ‘Word Customizations.exportedUI’. Clicking ‘Save' saves the adapted configuration in a separate XML fi le, which is loaded at the time of each start.
               You can also load your configuration on another computer or reload it after a reinstallation using ‘Import settings fi le’. For this, open the relevant file of type ‘exportedUI’, answer the security query, and overwrite the menus.
NOTE: This backup does not include macros that have been personalized and saved for buttons. You thus define only the necessary command call-ups. Macros must be separately saved and transferred.

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