How to select text Vertically in Word 2007?

Almost everybody who writes their documents in Microsoft Word knows how to select the text horizontally. You have to select the text horizontally in order to delete, underline, italicize etc.  But many times you face a situation in which you have to select the text vertically. For example you might have to delete the first few words in every line in a list in order to delete it. You need to do that as you reformat a Word document. Many people think that it is not possible to select text vertically in Word 2007 document. It is very easy to select text vertically in Word 2007. You just need to do this trick in order to make the vertical selection:

Point the mouse to the beginning of the text you want to select.

Hold down the Alt key.

Drag the mouse pointer downwards around the required area while still holding down the Alt key.

The text will be selected vertically.

After you select text vertically in Word 2007, you can make it bold, underline, italicize, delete, cut or copy it. You can also paste it anywhere else in the document if you want.

This feature which allows you to select text vertically in Word 2007 is very useful while working with lists. I have deleted the first word from every item on the list by holding down the Alt key and selecting vertically. However, a vertical selection can be useful in any other sort of document as well.

Microsoft Releases Office 2013 Customer Preview Free to Public

We know that Microsoft has released the final RTM version of its latest Office suite "Office 2013" to TechNet and MSDN subscribers and a free Customer Preview (Beta) version of Office 2013 is available for download to public:

Microsoft Releases Office 2013 Customer Preview Free to Public

Now the good news is that if you are not a TechNet or MSDN subscriber but want to test the final version of Office 2013, you can download a fully functional copy of Office 2013 RTM version absolutely free from Microsoft. Keep in mind that its a 60-day trial version but there are no limitations or restrictions. So you can use it for 2 months approx.

Microsoft is providing Office 2013 Professional Plus version for download which comes with following Office programs:

• Microsoft Word 2013
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
• Microsoft Excel 2013
• Microsoft Access 2013
• Microsoft Outlook 2013
• Microsoft OneNote 2013
• Microsoft Publisher 2013
• Microsoft Lync 2013

Free 60-day trial versions of Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 and Microsoft Project Professional 2013 RTM versions are also available for download separately.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions are available for download and its available in many languages such as Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Spanish.

System requirements:

• Processor: 1 Ghz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set
• Memory (RAM): 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• Hard Disk space: 3.0 GB available
• Display: Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX10 graphics card and 1024x576 resolution
• Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012

You can download the free trial versions using following links:

Download Free Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus Trial Version
Download Free Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 Trial Version
Download Free Microsoft Project Professional 2013 Trial Version
[Direct Download Links]

You'll need a Windows Live ID to register before downloading the free RTM version. As soon as you register, you'll get your working product key to install Office 2013 RTM in your system.

Let us tell you again that this final version of Office 2013 comes with 2 new color schemes (themes) to choose which are Light gray and Dark gray. Check out this tutorial to learn how to apply these new themes.

PS: If you are using a preview version of Office 2013, you'll need to uninstall the existing version from your system to be able to install this final version. The good thing is that if you install this free trial version and later you purchase full version of Office 2013, you can convert this trial version into full version by just entering the new product key using your Account settings in Office 2013.

Recover Corrupted pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt Files For Free

Before paying for any recovery software, try out all the methods in this post (100% FREE) to recover your corrupted or unreadable pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt, ods, and odp files. We, the editors at Computertipsfree.com, will try out best to provide you the most efficient way to solve your problem.

Recover Corrupted pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt Files from TEMP Folders

Usually a Microsoft Office file (pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt, ods, and odp) can be corrupted when your computer or the MS Office app itself crashes while you’re trying to save it. This often happens when there is a power failure. Microsoft Office, by default, will save a temp file periodically while you’re working on an office file. You can easily recover these temp files from the temp folders in Windows. This method eliminate the need of any third party software to recover your corrupted office files. Follow the steps below to recover the temp files.

For Windows XP (or older) users:

1. Go to Start -> Search for files and folders
2. Select your computer or your hard drives in the Look In drop-down menu.
3. Enter the following for file name to be searched: *.TMP
4. This will search all files with extension .tmp. The office files are usually with the names same as their types of documents, for example: docx22.tmp. You can easily find your files by sorting the “date modified”.
5. Run Ms Office and try to open the temp files you’ve just recovered.

For Windows 7 or Windows Vista users:

1. Go to Start -> Simply search for anything and then click on See More Results. (Or simply open My Computer)
2. In the box at the upper right corner of the window appeared, enter the following for file name to be searched:
   type:.tmp
3. This will search all files with extension .tmp. The office files are usually with the names same as their types of documents, for example: docx22.tmp. You can easily find your files by sorting the “date modified”.
4. Run Ms Office and try to open the temp files you’ve just recovered.

Recover doc and docx files using Damaged docx2txt

If you can’t recover your office files from the method above, you can use this cute little piece of software to recover your corrupted doc or docx files. This software will not repair the corrupted files but instead it will convert your corrupted doc and docx document files into plain texts so that you get to retrieve important data. This software is registered as a freeware, it’s absolutely free to download and use. Please be noted that the software requires you to have Microsoft .NET Version 2 Framework installed in your Windows. To recover your data, simply download Damaged docx2txt, run it, load the corrupted files and voila!

Download: Damaged docx2txt to recover docx and doc files

Recover xls and xlsx files using Corrupt xlsx2csv

As for corrupted xls and xlsx excel files, you can use Corrupt xlsx2csv to recover them. This software has the same author as Damaged docx2txt, who intented to provide free recovery tool for people like you. This software similarly will not repair your corrupted xls and xlsx excel files but instead they will show them in proper table formats on the its own interface. This eliminates the need of you having to retrieve data from the plain texts converted from the corrupted excel files, which is a great pain for you. To recover an excel files, download corrupt xlsx2xsv, run it and load the corrupted xls or xlsx files and voila!

Download: Corrupt xlsx2csv to recover xls and xlsx excel files

Recover pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt, ods, and odp Files Online

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Saveofficedata is a superb website designed to repair whatever office files you upload to them. The recovered office files will be available for download once it’s repaired. To recover your corrupted office files, simply go to saveofficedata.com, click the browse button to locate your corrupted file, click submit file and wait for a few seconds. The download will be prompted to you when the recovered file is available.

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Removing the page number from First page in Microsot Office

Sometimes, when you create a document with numbered pages, you don't want the first page to have a page number. For example, a title page or a cover page usually has no page number.

Note :- If your document already has page numbers, the page number on the cover page is automatically suppressed when you insert a cover page from the gallery of cover pages in Microsoft Office Word 2007. Inserting a cover page causes the second page to be numbered as page 2.

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1. Click anywhere in the document.
2. On the Page Layout tab, click the Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Layout tab.

3. Under Headers and footers, select the Different first page check box, and then click OK

Notes

• If the Different first page check box is already selected, do not clear it. Instead, delete the page number in the First Page Header or First Page Footer area.
• If you want the first page to have a header or footer that does not include a page number, insert the header or footer that you want while the cursor is in the First Page Header or First Page Footer area.

Start numbering on the second page with 1

1. Follow the steps for removing the page number from the first page.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Headers & Footers group, click Page Number, and then click Format Page Numbers.

3. In the Start at box, type 0.
4. and then finally click the page page after cover page and choose page format (above the page or below the page) then page number will start from after cover page as 1.

Recover Forgotten Ms-Word Passwords !

The software has extensive password recovery options for different Office applications, but I used my Home version just for mangling with Microsoft Word.

When you open the application, you can chose different types of attacks. In majority of cases dictionary attack will be just enough. A large base of Word users uses normal phrases for this kind of passwords. Open a Word file and the password recovery process will start:

The software is very fast and as you can see from the lower right bottom of the screenshot below, it tested approx. 17,000 passwords per second. In its peaks the number was up to seven times bigger.

Two minutes after starting the scan I got a positive response from the software and it showed that I was one of "those" people that use their dog's name as a password. Shame on me - the only thing I can say to my defense is that this Word file did not hold any important information.

While playing with the software I tested it against some different types of passwords such as random gibberish and birth dates. Of course, the dictionary was not enough for recovering these passwords, but the brute force attack came to the rescue and delivered results. 

How to Open Docx Files Without Microsoft Word 2007 ?

Docx format was introduced by Microsoft in 2007 with a quest for people to upgrade their office software and other Microsoft services. This version of MS Office 2007 is not compatible with the older versions like Office 2003 or Office 2000. I get annoyed when I receive the .docx files from my friends and I don’t have Office 2007 installed on my machine and I don’t have any plans to upgrade it either.

So I will tell you five known ways to open a .docx file even if you don’t have microsoft office 2007 installed on your computer.

1. Microsoft Compatibility Pack

This pack is introduced by Microsoft so that its new products are backward compatible with the older software. This pack will allow you to open, edit and save all your office documents in the latest versions of the Microsoft. This pack is available from the website of the company.

2. OpenOffice

This is an open source alternative to the Microsoft Office. This software is free and easy to use. You can open them directly or using its Open XML Translator tool.

3. Go Online

Internet is flooded with many websites that offer you free services to convert the .docx format into .doc format online. There are several popular online converters available such as Zamzar and docx2doc. You can opt for the offline conversion also by downloading the Docx-convertor dashboard from here.

4. Google Docs

And here comes the Google to rescue us from this situation. The Google docs enable you to view your .docx file online but keep in mind that the formatting can be affected.

5. Using Firefox Extension

OpenXML Viewer Firefox Plugin is developed for Microsoft Office 2007 or higher version that enables you to view the .docx files in the browser itself. This plugin works by converting the .docx into HTML on the fly retaining all the formatting and other layouts. You can download this plugin from here.