Where is the AutoFormat As You Type feature in Word 2007?
Thursday, December 18, 2008 02:10 PM
Word 2007 has relocated those handy AutoCorrect options, which can be disorienting. See where to find them, or simply add buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar to toggle the options you need.
Microsoft Word
Where is the AutoFormat As You Type feature in Word 2007?
You begin typing a quotation in a Word 2007 document. When you press the ” key, Word inserts straight quotes. You would like Word to change them to Smart Quotes instead. In Word 2003, you just go to Tools | AutoCorrect and select the Straight Quotes With Smart Quotes check box in the AutoFormat As you Type tab.
Word 2007 doesn't offer the AutoCorrect options on the Ribbon. Instead, it gives you two substitutes: Use the Word Options dialog to enable/disable Smart Quotes for all documents or add a button to the Quick Launch Toolbar that lets you turn the option on or off at will.
To change the Autocorrect option for all documents, follow these steps:
- Click the Office button.
- Click the Word Options button.
- Click Proofing and then click the AutoCorrect Options button (Figure A).
Figure A
- Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
- Under Replace As You Type, select the Straight Quotes With Smart Quotes check box and click OK.
Now all quotes will display as Smart Quotes. To change back to Straight Quotes, repeat steps 1 through 6, but clear the check box in step 5.
If you need to change the option often, you may want to add a button to the Quick Launch Toolbar that will let you toggle the option on and off. Follow these steps:
- Click the down arrow at the end of the Quick Launch Toolbar.
- Click More Commands (Figure B).
Figure B
- Select Commands Not In The Ribbon from the Choose Commands drop-down list.
- Select Autocorrect Smart Quotes, click Add, and click OK (Figure C).
Figure C
The Autocorrect Smart Quotes button now appears on the toolbar. To change the option, simply click the button. For example, if Straight Quotes is turned on, click the button in the Quick Launch Toolbar to begin entering Smart Quotes. To go back to typing Straight Quotes, click the button again.
Microsoft Access
Bypass the Choose Builder dialog box when coding events in Access
Whenever you click the Builder button in an Event property box, the Choose Builder dialog box displays, forcing you to specify how you will build your code (Figure A).
Figure A
If you work exclusively with event procedures, you probably don't want to have to choose Code Builder each time you write or edit event code. You can make Code Builder the default by following these steps:
- Go to Tools | Options. (In Word 2007, click the Office button and then click the Access Options button.)
- Click the Forms/Report tab. (In Word 2007, click Object Designers and scroll to Forms/Reports.)
- Select the Always Use Event Procedures check box and then click OK.
Now when you click the Builder button, it will go directly to the Visual Basic window.
Microsoft Excel
Hide Access tables to safeguard them from users
Excel 2007 has no explicit command that you can use to create a watermark. However, there is a way to simulate a watermark using some of the commands on the Header & Footer Design Ribbon.
For example, say you would like to mark all pages of a printed worksheet Confidential. Follow these steps:
- Click anywhere in the worksheet.
- Click the Insert tab and then click Header & Footer in the Text group.
- Under Header, click in the Center section on the Design tab of the Header & Footer Tools in the Header & Footer group.
- Click Picture, then navigate to the file containing the picture and click Insert as we've done in Figure A. (This example inserts a PNG file created from a WordArt object in a Word 2007 document.)
Figure A
- Click Format Picture in the Header & Footer group.
- Click the Picture tab and select Washout from the Color drop-down list (Figure B).
Figure B
- Click OK.
Excel will include the watermark on all printed pages of the worksheet (Figure C).
Figure C
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