Welcome to Life After Word 2003. This manual will serve as both an introduction to Microsoft Word 2007, as well as a guide to better assist your transition from Word 2003 to Word 2007. The bulk of this publication will be a “How to” manual presenting the fundamental steps in Word 2007, but will also include tables at the end of each section comparing the steps you took in Word 2003 to the steps you will now take in Word 2007.
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WordPerfect® Office 12 introduces several new features that were designed to facilitate compatibility with other office productivity suites. These suite-wide compatibility enhancements make WordPerfect Office the world’s leading alternative to Microsoft® Office. You can easily open, import, export, and save Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel, and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files, reducing or eliminating many of the difficulties that can arise when switching applications.
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HWPF is the name of our port of the Microsoft Word 97(-2007) file format to pure Java. It does not support the new Word 2007 .docx file format, which is not OLE2 based. HWPF is still in early development. It is in the scratchpad section of the SVN. You will need to ensure you either have a recent SVN checkout, or a recent SVN nightly build (including the scratchpad jar!)
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Doc-To-Help makes it possible to write once, and publish many different deliverables. Technical communicators, Help authors, policy writers, and others can author any type of information in Microsoft® Word or HTML, and publish a variety of ways — to the web, in Help systems, or printed manuals. The unmatched flexibility of Doc-To-Help allows you to author in the environment of your choice. Integrated toolbars and dialog boxes in Microsoft Word and popular HTML editors allow you to visually create Help systems by defining elements that include topic links, conditional text, pop-ups, and glossary terms.
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Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server is an intricate document management system. In addition to dynamic document management features, SharePoint Portal Server offers a search portal for locating documents. SharePoint Portal Server does not embed information into documents permanently. Rather, it indexes the metadata properties of documents that are admitted to the Server.
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This chapter describes how to import custom dictionaries and AutoText entries from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. The author knows no easy way of importing Microsoft Office AutoCorrect entries into OpenOffice.org.

Custom dictionaries
Dictionaries are used when checking any document for spelling errors. Custom dictionaries are enhanced dictionaries that contain words applicable to particular industries or pursuits, unique words, or custom spellings.
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The Drawing Tools are an added feature to Microsoft Word. They allow you to jazz up your document without opening a draw or paint program.
Choose Toolbars from the View Menu and select Drawing.
The Drawing Toolbar will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
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You should be aware that MS Word has several built-in features designed to “autocorrect” the text. This is because the program is designed for business users (for the most part), and often these corrections will not be appropriate for academic papers. However, you should realize that this feature is a problem. Here is a partial list of stupid “auto-corrections” that you might encounter:
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