Sep 17 2010
7 Microsoft Word Tips For Help Desk
Microsoft Word is a popular word processing application. You can write letters, essays, e-books, forms, brochures and other types of documents. As a Help Desk Professional, you may be called to fix problems with Word. Here is a list of problems and their solutions that you may find useful:
- How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you start or use Word 2003 or Word 2002 When you are having trouble getting Microsoft Word to open or working correctly, you may have a start up problem. Microsoft Support has a list of items you can do to troubleshoot the problem.
- Tips, tricks, and problem-solving for tables Tables help you to organize information in a way that makes it easy for people to understand. Sometimes when formatting or organizing your table, problems can occur. Microsoft has provided methods for troubleshooting table errors and tips for making tables even better.
- Microsoft Word Not Responding: Things You Can Do When Microsoft Word fails to respond or crashes, you will need to troubleshoot the problem. Here is a couple of remedies to try.
- Remove or change a password Microsoft Word allows you to add or remove a password to a Word document. Passwords can be lost and forgotten. If you forget the password, Microsoft cannot retrieve the password for you. You will need to use a password recovery tool to open a word document with a lost password.
- How to troubleshoot damaged Word documents Microsoft Word documents can become damaged and behave strangely. Your computer may stop working or you get strange error messages or other strange behavior. Use Microsoft’s troubleshooting procedures to determine if your Word document is damaged.
- Missing toolbars, menus or personal settings Sometimes when you open Microsoft Word, you may discover that your toolbars or menu bar is missing. You can try these remedies to restore your toolbars, menu bar or personal settings.
- How to clear recently used file list in Word Microsoft Word keeps a list of recently opened documents. You may from time to time need to clean out the list. Use this tip to clean out the list.
Bonus Tip
Cheat sheets or quick reference cards lists shortcuts. Use a cheat sheet as a reference so that you work in Word faster.
Despite MS Word is quite universal tool, it can cause you a lot of headache.
Therefore it is good to know how to work with it and how to solve the most common problems – as those that were presented here.