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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Setting Up a POP3 Email Account
1. In Outlook, select Tools / Account Settings.
2. On the Email tab, click the New button.
3. Check the “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” checkbox.
4. Click the Next button.
5. Click the Internet E-mail button.
6. Click the Next button.
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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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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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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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Get started off right! Set up APA format before you begin typing. You can set formatting just for your current APA paper, or you can change the default so that the formatting stays set for future APA papers. (You can set the default back to MS Word’s original settings at any time.) As you become more familiar with Word 2007 for APA, you will find shortcuts for some of the tasks described in this section. The directions below allow the option of changing your default settings so you won’t have to keep reformatting each time you start an APA paper.
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The layout of controls in the Ribbon changes when the width of the application window changes. When displayed on a large monitor, the Ribbon will adjust to show the “large versions” of groups in the Ribbon. When displayed on a small monitor, or when the user chooses to manually reduce the size of the application window, the Ribbon will adjust to show the “small versions” of groups in the Ribbon. The Ribbon is not designed for a particular display resolution. The Ribbon simply provides the best arrangement of the controls for the application and displays that arrangement appropriately for every possible size of the application window.
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Googling for information on the World Wide Web is such a common activity these days that it is hard to imagine that just a few years ago this verb did not even exist. Search engines are now an integral part of our lifestyle, but this was not always the case. Historically, systems for finding information were driven by data organization and classification performed by humans. Such systems are not entirely obsolete — libraries still keep their books ordered by categories, author names, and so forth. Yahoo! itself started as a manually maintained directory of web sites, organized into categories. Those were the good old days.
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