Tag: word 2007

Change the Microsft Word setting for automatic curly quotes to straight quotes

July 25, 2012

Microsft Word 2007 automatically changes straight quotes to curly quotes. While they may have some esthetic appeal to some, when writing code or scripts that contain quotes, the code is automatically broken. Well not that anyone would use Microsoft Word to write code, however, when documenting your code. There is a fix. It works. Here is an example of curly…

Track Date and Time A Document is Modified using Microsft Word 2007

July 20, 2012

In a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document it is possible to track modified dates and times from within the document. Instead of manually maintaining a document with a line like Last Modified July 20, 2012, there is built in functionality from within Word that will maintain this date. Launch Microsoft Word and type something like Last Modified. In a previously…