Welcome to The Word MVP Site
Welcome to the home page of the Word for PC section of the Word MVP site. Nice to have you with us!
Mac Users, you have your own sub-site -- click here to access it.
New Article: "Creating conditional cross reference labels for numbered headings". For those who were getting bored with how easy Word is to use, dive into this article by Senior Technical Writer John Irwin and feel the joy! (Please allow us to immediately dispel the nasty rumor that John wrote this article to scare off all the junior technical writers that were after his job: it isn't true. The were all terrified well before they got in this deep!)
Book Reviews: Bill Coan reviews "Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed" Please click here to see all the latest book reviews.
Word 2007
Customise the Ribbon: What we have wanted to do since Word 2007 appeared -- get the rubbish off the ribbon.
The basic tools and techniques, by Bill Coan
More advanced surgery: Greg Maxey's "do-it-yourself" guide to getting the Ribbon You Want.
Please understand that this entire site is a work
that is constantly in progress, and if you read
below you will see that it is done entirely by volunteers using whatever
time we have available in between going to work and having a life.
To give feedback about this website, please click here. To post questions
about Word see Posting to Newsgroups, below.
Just a word about MVPs: We're volunteers. We do not work for Microsoft! We want to make that point up front, because many of us have received angry emails blaming us for perceived Microsoft shortcomings. This site, the time it takes to create and maintain it, the hardware it runs on, and the bandwidth it consumes, are all a voluntary contribution from private individuals who just happen to love pushing Word to its limits. However we have no greater influence than you do on the Microsoft Corporation. So please allow us gently to suggest that if you have a message for Microsoft, click here for the Microsoft Suggestion Site.
The articles on this site are at various levels of difficulty: some are designed for people just getting started; some are more appropriate to application solution developers. If you are having difficulty utilizing an article, we'd love to help you with it: click here to ask your question.
Word versions
Unless otherwise stated all articles apply equally from Word 2000 to Word 2004
(but not to Word 2007 and later) on
both PC and Mac. Earlier versions of Word, although adequate for many people's
needs, are no longer widely used; so it would not be an effective use of our
time to cover them specifically.
Posting to
the forums
Click here
to see how to ask a question about your specific problem. If you have any
questions about Word or Word VBA that aren't answered on this site, please post
them to the newsgroups (Microsoft calls them "Communities"). Hint: read
the bit on newsgroup "netiquette" — other community members may
not make much
effort to answer your question if it contains insufficient information,
or seems rude. remember: We do this because we want to enjoy it!
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and Daiya Mitchell
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