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THE WORKHORSE OF ANY OFFICE SUITE, whether preloaded or store bought, is its word processing application. And though each new version adds capabilities, ostensibly to boost productivity, we still value […]

Laaaadies and Gentlemen! Step right up! The Amaaaazing Word-o-Matic is now on display! It makes letters, flyers, catalogs, invoices, and more! It slices! It dices! It even corrects your errors […]

Where to Buy Microsoft Word 95 List price $339; Microsoft, 800/426-9400 Word Pro 96 for Windows 95 List price $105; Lotus Development Corp., 800/457-0909 Word Pro 96 is the workgroup […]

Crafting Better Business Documents Let's face it: The days of the typewritten letter--humdrum Courier type on plain white paper--are gone, and good riddance. Businesses have taken a more sophisticated approach […]

Wizards, Coaches, Tips of the Day, and other automated tools are hallmarks of the newest Windows word processors. Our own wizard evaluates the top three packages and picks the best. […]

PROS: Super layout, publishing, and graphics handling; logical menus CONS: Paragraph styles only, limited text-art tools, no OLE 2.0 support, no toll-free support Ami Pro 3.01 is a mature release […]

No matter what business you're in, you have to produce a variety of documents on a daily basis, from simple memos and sales letters to complex reports and manuals. What […]

Take it from the experts: There is an easier way. Streamline your work with these 67 timesavers for 16 best-selling DOS and Windows applications. Software is supposed to make our […]

Today's crop of word processors are hot enough to blacken redfish. Contemporary word crunchers like Word for Windows and Ami Pro come with all the ingredients necessary to whip up […]

In today's rugged economic landscape, anything you can do to improve your image is not just a good idea--it's critical. The latest visually oriented Windows word processors make it much […]

At first glance Word 95 isn't noticeably different from its Windows 3.x predecessor. In fact, the program's core remains essentially the same as in version 6; what's really nice is […]

War of the Words Let's face it, word processing is essentially a straightforward process -- you sit down and do the work. So it's a good thing that the makers […]

PROS: Automated text entry, formatting, and corrections; great drawing tools and envelope and label handling CONS: No image processing, heavy hardware requirements, no toll-free support, initial-release bugs This new and […]

MOST OF US will use an application such as Microsoft Word for years and rarely if ever change its default settings. Instead, we tolerate what we perceive to be the […]

APPEARANCE MATTERS--both for documents and for people. Facing pages in a Word document that have even bottom margins make a better impression on readers. When you change font size or […]

HOW OFTEN DOES this happen to you? You copy text from one Word or WordPerfect document to another, but the text you move doesn't match the font, size, or color […]

IF YOU'RE CREATING a document in Word 97 or Word 2000 that you plan to share with users of another word processing program, you can do more than save the […]

MOVING AROUND IN long documents can be time-consuming and imprecise. Word's instant browsing feature helps you minimize your page-scrolling. Instant browsing lets you jump through documents by page, section, table, […]

LOOKING FOR A FAST, easy way to high-light text and graphics in your document? Apply borders to set material off and add impact. Here's a guide to the formatting associated […]

GIVE YOUR DOCUMENTS more impact by using Word or WordPerfect tables to make page layouts more colorful and captivating. As FIGURE 1 shows, you can create colors and alignments in […]

WE ALL TYPE the same things over and over in the course of our work. Whether it's a signature block in a letter or a piece of boilerplate text, there's […]

Build automatic return addresses in Word The envelope and labels dialogue box in Word 97 and 2000 (Tools-Envelopes and Labels) automatically fills in a return address for you. But where […]

ONE OVERLOOKED feature in Word and WordPerfect lets you copy the formatting (fonts, colors, boldface, and so on) of a selected area of text and apply it to other parts […]

Create instant charts * Scan images directly to docs * Protect your settings You CREATED a document last month or maybe a year ago, and now it's nowhere to be […]

From the November 1, 1999 issue of PC World. Liven Up Your Documents With Watermarks Few designs can add as dramatic an effect to a document as a watermark. This […]

Our expert tipsters lead you to out of the deepest, darkest jungles of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Office 97 and 2000 Office 2000 is large, complex, and mostly […]

Control menu expansion * Capture screen shots * Use start-up switches Share Text Among Multiple Documents Copying parts of one document to another can be a pain in Word 6, […]

Everyone needs a few sheets of return address labels occasionally, and today's word processors can create them quickly. You just need to know a few tricks. Word 6.0 and later. […]

All current word processors can automatically insert an enlarged capital letter (or letters) at the beginning of a paragraph. Drop caps, as they are called, can give your documents that […]

All fonts available in Windows applications contain numerous characters not available on your keyboard, including international characters, fractions, and proofreaders' marks. In addition, certain fonts, such as the Symbol font […]

Word 97 introduced a new way to wrap text around a graphic image, allowing the text to follow the contours of the image rather than just the box enclosing an […]

Make Word 97 Easier on Your Eyes Does word's white background hurt your eyes? A new feature in Word 97 lets you change the background color of your editing screen […]

Word 95 (aka Word 7.0) was the best of the first-generation Windows 95 word processors, but it really didn't do much more than give a Win 95 look to the […]

Word Processing It's easy to create a header in Word 6 for Windows and Word 7 for Windows 95, but creating a header that you want to appear only on […]

Whether you need to send a mass mailing to thousands of people or just send out a set of party invitations, Ami Pro's mail merge tools are the way to […]

PROS: Powerful set of flexible, customizable features; strong publishing features; spreadsheetlike tables; toll-free support CONS: Slow editing in complex documents, complex menus, heavy hardware requirements, flawed handling of previous-version files […]

Q I use WordPerfect 5.1 and like to store my documents in a directory other than the one used by the program files. When I want to retrieve a file, […]

Microsoft's Windows word processor gets a major upgrade, including exceptional graphics tools, easier-to-use features, and some innovations. Microsoft's Word for Windows, already a good Windows word processor, is now more […]

Tips for getting the most out of your word processor This month: Speed group editing using WordPerfect's strike-through and redline features, and add pop-up notes to Word and WordPerfect documents. […]