Sunday, September 23, 2007
Five Essential Add-Ins for MS Word
Web Worker Daily: "Do you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word? I’m in it all day, and I’ve found several very useful add-in programs that can enhance every Word user’s experience. In this post, I’ll round up five of them that can start making you more efficient in Word today."
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The only useful add-in, for me, would be the print to pdf or email pdf. This would help by not having to have other programs to use to create pdf files for email or distribution. The only problem, you need to have Office 2007.
I agree with Matt. I don't see all five to be ESSENTIAL, however I do think the hyperlink tool and PDF converter are incredibly convenient. The rest of the tools seem to play to the ears of writers more than businessmen, who evidently would be using word very frequently but for spreadsheets, ultimately eliminating the need for a "word chooser".
I agree with you both above. I am glad to see that there are ways to create a PDF prior to purchasing an expensive program. PDF’s now a days are essential, not only for a professional setting, but for the general transfer of information period. It’s good that other programs are able to recognize this and adjust accordingly to accommodate this need.
Definitely not essential to everyone, especially the "Sumsbox-W." Why would you be doing any sort of spreadsheet in word when, more than likely, you have a perfectly good copy of Excel sitting on you computer that can output to Word if you need to keep several types of info in one document. I would agree that PDF saving is a definite though. For those that have Office 2003, you can get free plug-ins to print to PDF, such as pdf995.
The hyper link checker looks nice. Murphy's has deemed that if I don't check a hyper link it won't work. The other plugins seems to make word look more like publisher. I can understand why one would like to avoid publisher, but at the same time, if you have word you probably have publisher.
They all sound like nice things to add onto word. Thank you Apple for having all of the said option installed with iWork. Some of them are very specialized in what they do. For instance, who uses enough hyper links in one file that you would need to check them automatically. PDF output is built into OS X so I would never need that. And if you use the same words over, and over again, wouldn't you just notice it when you proof-read? I'll stick to Pages.
I find it funny that this talks about the PDF being such an add in that Apple has had for a long time and they finally realised that people needed it to just be in the program. The hyperlink count is very nice also because that way you don't have to run through all of the links manually.
Yeah don't think these are too essential. And like was mentioned, several of these features are already built in, so no need. I hate doing tables in Word, so just do them in excel and copy them in. Not that hard. I don't remember what the other essentials were, but probably means they were useless anyway.
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