Hands on - Word processing - Where are they now? How to restore missing features, count words and rotate table text.(Column)

Publication: Personal Computer World

Publication Date: 01-NOV-05

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As well as adding features to Microsoft Office, the developers take them away. In version 2003, the Office Binder and the Office Shortcut Bar disappeared. The Binder enabled you to combine different types of data - documents, spreadsheets and so on - in a single container, with an option for global page numbering. But, according to Microsoft, it was never popular, possibly because of a distinctly 'could do better' implementation.

If you have bound files from a previous version, 2003 contains an 'unbind' tool that will restore these to their separate files. If this isn't installed on your PC, you'll need to go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs. Select Office 2003, click on Change, then select 'Add or remove features' in the...

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