How to Turn a Scanned Document Into Microsoft Word Document

If you have Word 2007 or newer, you can use it to edit scanned text, which is much faster than typing the whole thing from scratch. To enable this feature and convert a scanned document to editable text, follow these steps.

Method 1 of 2: Enable Document Imaging

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Find a list of your installed programs in the Control Panel.

• Windows 7 or Vista: Go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features.
• Windows XP: Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Remove a Program.

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   Select your Microsoft Office edition, then click Change. Your version of Word might be in a Microsoft Office pack or it might just be called Microsoft Office Word.
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   Click Add or Remove Features, and then click Continue.
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   Expand Office Tools, then click on Microsoft Office Document Imaging and select Run all from my Computer.
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   Click Continue, then wait for configuration to complete.

Method 2 of 2: Convert a Scanned Document to Editable Text

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   Scan and/or open the document with Paint. If scanning, follow the sub-steps below. Otherwise, simply open the scanned image with Paint and skip to Step 2.
   • Go to File > From Scanner or Camera to initiate scan if necessary.
     
   • Choose the settings that best fit your document and hit Scan. Since you are primarily interested in the text, Black and white picture or text is probably best.
     
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   Go to File > Save or Save As as necessary.
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   Select TIFF from the drop-down list and hit Save. You can now close Paint if you want.
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   Open Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools and select it from the list, or simply do a search for “microsoft office document imaging.”
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   Open the .tiff file. Simply go to File > Open and locate the file you saved.
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   Hit CTRL+A to select all and CTRL+C to copy. This will initialize text recognition.
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   Open a blank Word document and hit CTRL+V to paste.
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   Correct misspellings as necessary.

How to Insert and Edit a Header in Microsoft Word 2007

Adding a header to a document in Microsoft Word 2007 only takes a few steps. You're literally a few clicks away from having an attractive header applied to your document, and this how-to will teach you how do begin accessing these features. You will learn how to insert and edit a header; the process will be illustrated by adding a built-in header style to a basic document.

Steps

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Locate the header options. You'll find a cluster of related options in the middle of the default layout of the "Insert" tab.

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   Click on the Header button to access the menu for editing your header. From here, you can scroll down to browse the built-in styles.
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   Select a built-in header style for the purposes of this how-to. You will see the style you selected instantly applied to the header space of your document, and you will see the text you are able to alter within the Quick Part(s) contained within your chosen header style.
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   Close the Header & Footer workspace after you've edited the Quick Part default text in line with your document's objectives. Your new header will appear slightly ghosted as you work within the main body of your document. 

How to Hide or Delete Comments in Microsoft Word

In Ms Word, comments are notes about the document content. They can be written for oneself as a reminder or clarification for future reference or conveying some message about the selected text for reviewers and readers of the document. You can add comments, delete existing ones OR temporarily hide the comments in a Microsoft word document.

Steps

Add caption

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Delete  a Comment- Right click on the Comment balloon. A menu will appear. Click on the option 'Delete Comment'

Delete All commentsin the document- Go to review Tab-  In the comments group options, click Delete Button and from drop down menu select 'Delete all comments in the document'

1. Hide Comments- Go the Review tab, locate and click the Option 'Show markup'. From the drop down menu that appears click on 'comments' to remove the Checkmark besides it.
   
   
   
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   Show comments- Follow the step number 3 above, this time make sure that the check mark appears. That will show all the comments.
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   Press ENTER to add more steps

Basic of Ms Words

Microsoft Word 2007 is new and greatly improved. If the smoothly designed Word is proving too much to handle, here's a quick guide of how to use it.

Let's start off with the toolbar. The toolbar has seven different tabs. They are

Method 1 of 2: The Basics

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   Let's start off with the toolbar. The toolbar has seven different tabs. They are
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   Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.
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   Home: This tab is the basic word processing tools, like for example, size, font, color, style, etc. You will find that you're going to go here most of the time.
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   Insert: This tab contains more tools than the Home tab, and it's really for inserting things. They are really helpful, and they're just not used for basic word processing. They're also used for a professional document. Some things you can do in this tab are add clip art, add links, etc.
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   Page Layout: This tab is mostly there for adding the final touch to your document and fixing it a little. You can change the orientation, the size of your document, and pretty much you can do things you normally can't do basically.
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   References: This tab is for inserting references. For example, adding citations, a table of contents, footnotes, bibliography, captions, etc.
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   Mailings: This tab is for making envelopes and labels, starting a mail merge (sending the same document to different people),
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   Review: This tab is for things like spelling and grammar, translating, a dictionary, a thesaurus, adding a comment, etc.
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   View: This tab has something to do with how your document looks like. It's sort of similar to Page Layout, except it's more of adjusting things, like zoom in, zoom out, etc.
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    Format: This tab only applies with pictures, clip art, word art, or photos. This tab is for adjusting the image(s) and text, like changing the brightness, contrast, effect, color, etc.

Method 2 of 2: Making Your First Document

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   Let's go on to the part where you make your first document. Read on to find out what to do.
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   Open up Microsoft word and start a new blank document. You do this by clicking on the icon that looks like a blank page with one corner turned down.
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   Begin the process by saving.
   • To save, you click on the circular Microsoft Office logo in the upper left hand corner of the window. You should see a little menu pop-up with multiple options.
     
   • Leave the cursor over the words Save As. You should always do Save As when you're making a new document. It gives you the option of what kind of document you want it to be, where you're going to save it, and what the name of the document will be.
     
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   There are many different kinds of file type options. Click on Word 97-2003 Document or Word Document. Word 97-2003 Document allows other people to see it, even if they have older versions of Word and haven't installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, while if you use Word Document, only people that have Word 2007 or the Compatibility Pack can open it. Either one is a good choice.
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   If this is your first time using Microsoft Word Office 2007, create a new folder for your documents. Just type something like "Sample Documents" or something you want to name it.
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   After you're done creating a folder and saving the document, go back to the empty document. Choose a font that you think is a style you like. Some suggested fonts are Times New Roman, Calibri (Body), and Arial. The picture below shows you an example of what to do.
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Microsoft Office Word 2007 Top 10 Benefits

Microsoft Office Word 2007 helps people create and share professional-looking content by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Here are the top 10 ways Office Word 2007 can help you create professional-looking content faster.

	Spend more time writing and less time formatting. The Office Fluent user interface presents the right tools when you need them, making it easy to format your documents quickly. Now you can find the right features in Office Word 2007 to make your documents communicate more effectively. Using Quick Styles and Document Themes, you can quickly change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout the entire document to match your preferred style or color scheme.
	Communicate more effectively with SmartArt diagrams and new charting tools. New SmartArt diagrams and a new charting engine help you create great-looking content with 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects.
	Quickly assemble documents using Building Blocks. Building Blocks in Office Word 2007 can be used to assemble documents from frequently used or predefined content such as disclaimer text, pull quotes, sidebars, cover pages, and other types of content. This will help ensure you don't spend needless time recreating content or copying and pasting between documents; it also helps ensure consistency across all of the documents created within your organization.
	Save as PDF or XPS directly from Office Word 2007. Office Word 2007 offers you a choice for sharing documents with other people. You can convert your Word documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without the addition of third-party tools to help ensure broad communication with users on any platform.1
	Publish and maintain blogs directly from Office Word 2007. You can now publish blogs directly from Office Word 2007. You can configure Office Word 2007 to link directly to your blog site, and use the rich Word experience to create blogs with images, tables, and advanced text formatting features.
	Master your document review processes using Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With built-in workflow services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and track document review and approval processes from within Office Word 2007 to help accelerate review cycles across your organization without forcing people to learn new tools.
	Connect your documents to business information. Create dynamic Smart Documents that update themselves by connecting to your back-end systems using new document controls and data bindings. By using the new XML integration capability, organizations can deploy intelligent templates to assist people in creating highly structured documents.
	Remove tracked changes, comments, and hidden text from your documents. Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector to help ensure that sensitive information doesn't escape when your documents are published.
	Use the tri-pane review panel to compare and combine documents. Office Word 2007 makes it easy to find out what changes were made to a document. A new tri-pane review panel helps you see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly marked.
	Reduce your file sizes and improve corrupt file recovery. The new Ecma Office Open XML Formats offer a dramatic reduction in file size as well as improvement in recovery for damaged files. These new formats provide a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduce the burden on IT personnel.