The Microsoft Word spell checker keeps reverting to English (US) even though I have manually set the language as English (Australia). How can I permanently change the language and spell check to English (Australia)? The computer is running Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office 2000. (more…)

A new feature in Word 2007 is Quick Parts which allows you to save (reusable) parts of documents as “building blocks”. These can then easily be inserted and reused into other documents. Examples of items which you may wish to include as building blocks are contact information, introductory paragraphs, etc. To use Quick Parts and building blocks, you first need to select (highlight) the part of the document that you would like to save as a building block. Then, go to the “Insert” tab within Word, select the “Quick Parts” icon within the “Text” group and click “Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery”. Complete the necessary information and click OK. Now to use that building block in a document, just return to the Quick Parts menu and select it.

Recently I purchased a new computer running Windows XP with Office 2007. My previous computer was primarily used for word processing and ran Windows 3.1. I saved all my Word documents on 1.44 MB floppy discs. To my dismay I now find that the new computer with Windows XP will not read these discs. Can you tell me if there is an easy, quick and hopefully cheap way to get the data to transfer from the discs to Windows XP? (more…)

I would like to complete a mail merge using Word 2007, but I cannot figure out how mail merge works. Can you provide advice on how the mail merge functions in this new version of Word? Additionally, my computer has a lot of different folders. I would like to consolidate the number of folders on the computer, but am unsure how to delete these folders. Could you provide advice on this matter? (more…)

On opening, Outlook reports that the program has expired and certain features of the program are missing, such as the ability to create a new email. What can I do? The computer is running Windows Vista. (more…)