Tired of only seeing parts of the menus when you navigate the menu bar?
Want to see all of the available options in Microsoft Word - immediately? It's simple to make this change.

Microsoft kept the blinking and marquee light-surrounding text in Microsoft Word . As in previous versions of Microsoft Word, to give your text some interesting emphasis, highlight text, right-click, and select "Font". When the "Font" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, select "Text Effects". A list of effects will appear such as Blinking Background, Shimmer, and Sparkle Text. Select your desired effect (You can see how it will look in the Preview area) and press "OK" to close the dialog box.

SUMMARY: Hard to differentiate between Microsoft Word's tiny icons? Make them bigger!

Are you having trouble seeing the icons in the Windows toolbar, such as the disk to save documents, the printer to print documents, etc.? If so, you can make the icons bigger.

When you click on the font combo box in the toolbar, Word lets you choose a different font in which to type. While providing you the name of the various fonts on your system Word also shows you what the fonts look like. Although this can be a handy feature - who remembers the differences between Arial and Helvetica, anyway? - if you have a slow system or a lot of fonts, it can take some time for Word to show you the entire list of fonts.

Luckily, there is a way to disable this feature, letting you select from a list of fonts without Word actually previewing what the fonts look like. Then, you can just start typing in a selected font to see how it appears.

SUMMARY: Find out how many words are in your Microsoft Word document.

Writing an essay, a business report, or an article to a magazine or e-zine in Microsoft Word that has word count requirements? To quickly find out how many word, lines, paragraphs, and pages are in the current document, click the "Tools" menu and select "Word Count".

SUMMARY: Insert Copyright symbols in Microsoft Word documents.

Microsoft Word 2000's AutoCorrect feature can be a pain at times, but in other instances it can be quite helpful. Take copyrights and trademarks for example. Normally, you would have to go through a couple of menus to insert such symbols in your documents. As long as AutoCorrect is turned on, just typing (c), (r), or (tm) in your document should result in a copyright symbol, registered trademark, and trademark symbol being displayed, respectively.