When faced with those pesky widows and orphans in your document, what can you do? Here are some ideas you can try to keep those widows and orphans from being alone.

Ever wonder how documents were prepared for press before desktop publishing software? Learn about the tools required then and now to layout and design publications.

Boring tables are a thing of the past! Using Word's table tools and styles allows you to choose from many available styles, modify any of those styles to your liking, or create your own table style from scratch.

When you have a book to proof, instead of printing out the whole book or proofreading while confined to your computer station, try converting your document into an e-pub and then read it on your Nook. You can highlight and make notes of changes that may need to be made.

Enhancing and editing your writing is easier than ever before. With so much available at your fingertips today with word processing programs that have spelling and grammar checks and the internet for researching, there is no need to buy a set of encyclopedias any more.

Word 7 has lots of ways to enhance text in your documents. We all know about boldface, italics and underscore, and maybe have ventured and added color to our text. But have you explored some of the other options such as scaling, adding a drop shadow or embossing your text?

There are a lot of people who use Word. But how many people actually know how to use all the functions that Word has to offer? Even if you are a seasoned user of word processing software, as I am, with software constantly being updated, there are always new things to learn.

Setting up and using tabs in your document will keep indents, columns and numbers in their places even if you change your font, format or import your text to a desktop publishing program.

Once set up, style sheets and templates help keep the style of your publication(s) consistent, and they can also help save you time and effort!

So what if you don't have expensive graphic software? If you have MS Word 2007 you can insert your image or use one from the MS clip art collection and have fun manipulating it using Word's Picture Tools.