How to open a word document in Photoshop? A Microsoft word document cannot be simply opened in  Photoshop . Word documents are saved in .doc or .docx file formats which are not compatible with Photoshop. Photoshop deals with .psd, .jpeg, .gif, and other various image file formats. This is probably a strange tutorial as I usually talk about  cutting out images  using Photoshop. Why would you want to open a Word Document in Photoshop? You can do so many things on a computer, however people always want to do something that is not always possible. Here are a few reasons I can think of why you would want to open a word document in Photoshop: You might want to open a document full of pictures in Photoshop to edit them more professionally Maybe you want to split the Word document up into layers to enable better editing. You might want to use some special features in Photoshop that are not available in Microsoft Word. How do you open a Word document in Photo...

Background colors and images will not print in Word 2007 It is so annoying when you have worked really hard on a document, but when you go to print it, the background does not print. For example if you press on print preview you will immediately see your background images or colors missing from the document. However there is no need to panic, because there is a simple solution for this. How to make the backgrounds and colors show up when printing a document? When you have Word 2007 open, press on the Office symbol in the top left corner. A menu will appear. Press on the Word Options button at the bottom. See the screenshot below. The Word Options dialog box will appear. Press on the Display section in the left side bar. Now you will see the options for display. Under the printing options menu put a tick in the box next to Print background colors and images. Press OK. Now when you print your document the background colors and images will be included as well. ...

How to use a custom watermark on different pages in your document When you add a watermark to a document in Word 2007, by default, it will be added to your entire document. Therefore if you add a watermark to your document it seems that you have no control over where it will appear. Sometimes this is not what you want. Having the words confidential or do not copy spread across a title page or even a contents page does not always look good. In this tutorial I will show you step by step instructions on how to remove a watermark from one page in your document and also how to put a custom watermark on different pages. Once you know how to do this, you will be the one in control of watermarks in your document. The first thing we will need to do is separate the pages with a section break. This way when we add a watermark it will only apply to the pages in the document that belong to a particular section. So in this example I am going to separate the title page and the table of cont...

Type abbreviations and use auto-correct to finish words for you If you write all the time like me you will love this little trick. Well its not a trick, I am just using auto-correct in Microsoft Word to my advantage. I am going to show you how to make Word translate your text abbreviations you use into finished words. Yes, Word is going to finish or complete the words that I am going to write. Why would I want to write a word like abbreviations when I can simply put abb and then press the space bar. The finished word will appear for me.  How do you add text abbreviations to auto-correct in word 2007?   Microsoft Word 2007.  Press on the  Office symbol  in the left top corner. Go to the bottom and press on the  Word Options button . See the screenshot below. Word options  will appear. Choose  Proofing  from the left menu. Now press on the  AutoCorrect Options  button as in the screenshot below. The  ...

Add a video or to word 2007 and convert it to a PDF What do you need to embed a video into word 2007 to convert to PDF? This is an expensive process because you will need Microsoft Word 2007 and a professional version of Adobe PDF creator. You can get Word Documents converted for free on the internet but the standards are poor. It would not include html links or embedded video. You also need a video to embed into the word 2007 document to export to PDF. If you are in business and you plan to use these programs then they are well worth the money. How to embed a video from your computer into a word document How to embed a video into a Word 2007 document? In Word 2007, if you go to embed a video into a document this message will appear below. So therefore you must save the document before proceeding. Open  Word 2007  document that you want to insert the video into. Go to the  Insert tab. On the far right, click on  Embed Video. Now it will prompt yo...

Add shortcut icons to your Quick Access toolbar in Microsoft Word 2007 In Microsoft word 2007 there is a quick access toolbar at the top of the screen next to this   symbol. See in the screenshot below. I have circled the quick access toolbar. By default the quick access toolbar has a save shortcut icon, an undo, and a redo icon. However you can add or remove shortcut icons from the quick access toolbar by choosing to customize it.  How to add shortcut icons to the quick access toolbar? As shown in the screenshot below, click on the  dropdown arrow  to choose what icons to add to the quick access toolbar. If you want to add a shortcut icon it must have  a tick next to it. If the icon you want is not in the list, click on  More commands  to see more details. See the screenshot below.  All the possible shortcut icons  that you can add to the quick access toolbar are shown here. To choose one simply  select it...

How to embed a Youtube video into a PowerPoint Presentation Many businesses and large organizations have found that embedding a  Youtube video into a PowerPoint presentation can be a great way to get your point across. It can really make your PowerPoint presentation stand out from the rest. What you will need to embed a Youtube video into a PowerPoint presentation: You will need the PowerPoint program installed on your computer. You will need the url of a Youtube video that you want to embed. You will also need to edit the URL for it to work. When viewing the finished product you will need to be connected to the internet for the video to work. How to find the URL of a Youtube video? You can find the Youtube video URL on the page where you are watching the actual video on Youtube. The URL is located in the box next to the video on the right as you can see in the screen shot below. So now you need to make that text blue, then right click on it and choose copy. The ...