You Can Fix It

This week we have seen the number of words in a document questions come through. This was due to a management proposal that every team writes 1000 words on what they do to present to shareholders. This was a novel idea and a way for people to show what their expected role is in their eyes. That is probably enough of the politics of working at this company. while you type. Office Word 2007 can count the following Pages, Paragraphs, Lines, and Characters, either including or excluding the spaces.In older versions you needed to pull from a menu. In Windows XP there is an actual pull down menu item for a word count. This has been greatly enhanced in 2007. When you type in a document, Office Word 2007 automatically counts the number of pages and words in your document and displays them on the status bar at the bottom of the page you are typing. You can also count the number of words in a selection or selections, rather than all of the words in a document. The selections don’t need to be next to each other for you to count them. If you select the text that you are working on, and what it want counted it is a simple process. The status bar then will only count the word within the block you selected. This also is going to be displayed in the lower status bar. This saved these folks a lot of time and is a great improvement over 2003. It was pain staking like every move with 2007 as the questions kept coming in how do you find the word count. The user feels kind of silly when the number was right in front of them the whole time.

To assign a password to a Word for Mac document, follow these steps:
Click the Word menu
Select Preferences
Click Security in the left side of the dialog box
Enter a password in the box labeled “password to open”
Click OK
Re-enter the password when prompted
Click OK

You can also require a password to modify the document:
In the security section, type a password in the box labeled “password to modify”
Click OK
Re-enter the password when prompted
Click OK

The Protect Document button allows you to safeguard tracked changes, comments, and forms. Simply select what you would like to protect and enter a password. Click OK. Reconfirm the password when prompted.