Word 2008 for Mac comes with professionally designed templates that you can use to create brochures, calendars, forms, flyers, labels, and more. You can customize these Word templates to make them appear just the way you want. The easiest way to start a project from a template is with the Office Project Gallery, which you open by choosing File→Project Gallery or pressing Command+Shift+P. Here’s how to open and modify a template:
1Click the New tab at the top of the Project Gallery window, if it’s not already highlighted.
The New tab’s contents appear.
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- Add a new page or a page break. To add a new blank page or page break to your document, click Pages on the Insert tab, and then choose either Blank Page or Page Break. If you choose Page Break, all subsequent content after your insertion point will be moved onto the next page. Delete a page. You can delete a blank page at the end of your document, or empty paragraphs or page breaks,.
2Choose Word Documents from the Show menu near the lower-right corner of the Project Gallery window.
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Choosing Word Documents limits your choices to Word templates so that you don’t have to search through a bunch of Excel or PowerPoint templates to find what you need.
3Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the Coordinated Formscategory.
Clicking the disclosure triangle reveals several subcategories.
4Click the subcategory of the type of document you want to create.
For example, if you want to create an invoice, click the Invoices subcategory.
5Click the template you want.
The other invoice templates you could have used appear on the right side of the window, and all the other template categories appear in the list on the left.
6Click the Open button.
The template you chose opens. When you open the template, switch to Print Layout view (choose View→Print Layout). None of the views, except Print Layout and Publishing Layout, display the graphic images on your page.
7To customize a Word template, replace the placeholder text with your information.
You can stop working on customizing your template in midstream and come back to it later, or when you’re finished, save it to reuse this version of the template over and over in the future.
8Choose File→Save to save your document as a template. Choose Word Template (.dotx) from the Format menu.
When you tell Word that you want to save a file as a Word Template, it changes the save folder to My Templates so that your template will automatically appear in the Project Gallery from now on.
9Name the template something meaningful and then click Save.
From now on, you can open this template by selecting it in the My Templates category on the New tab of the Project Gallery.
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If you use your Mac to take notes in lectures (or anywhere, really), then you’ll love this feature in Office 2008 for Mac: Word’s Notebook Layout view. If you have any laptop Mac, you probably know that it has a built-in microphone. But most people don’t know that you can use Word’s Notebook Layout view to record audio while you take your notes?
Word files that include audio tend to be significantly larger than ones without. If you’re short on disk space, you might want to keep an eye on your file sizes.
Here’s how to do it:
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- Choose View→Notebook Layout.A dialog asks whether you want to convert the current document or create a new document in Notebook Layout view.
- Click the Create New button.A new Untitled Notebook Layout document appears.
- Name and save the document. Then click the Audio icon on the toolbar.The Audio Notes toolbar appears. Start talking to your Mac and check the Input Level Indicator in the Audio Notes toolbar. If the Input Level Indicator doesn’t light up (that is, display blue lines) when you talk, slide the Input Volume Slider to the right until it does.If the Input Level Indicator still doesn’t light up when you talk, open Mac OS X System Preferences and click the Sound icon. Now, click the Input tab and select Internal Microphone as your input device. Slide the Input Volume Slider to the right until you see it light up when you talk.
- Click the circular button with the red dot inside it to begin audio recording, type your notes, and then click the circular button with the black box inside it to end audio recording. Save your document again.The Audio Notes toolbar includes all the controls you need to review your notes. To hear a specific part of your notes, just click the speaker icon that appears to the left of the first line of each paragraph. When you do so, the audio that was recorded as you typed that paragraph of text plays. Use the Pause and Play buttons to start and stop the playback, or click and drag on the timeline slider to fast forward or rewind the audio. The timeline slider also shows the elapsed time and time remaining for the audio recording.