At some point, you may have started to create a table in Word 2007, got a good amount of the table done, and then discovered you want to make your columns into rows and your rows into columns, basically turning your table 90 degrees, to better display your data.
Unfortunately, there is no way to easily [...]

Previously, we wrote about embedding an Excel worksheet into a Word document in the Microsoft Office 2007 suite (see the post, Embed an Excel Worksheet into Word 2007). You can do the same thing in the free OpenOffice.org 3.2 suite.
To embed a new, empty Calc spreadsheet into Writer, put the insertion point where you want [...]

There is a little known feature in word that allows you to gather groups of text and/or graphics from different locations in a Word document and then paste all of that text into another location.
It is called the Spike and it is different in than the Clipboard, which allows you work with only copied set [...]

By default, when you first install Word, the Insert key is used to turn the overtype mode on and off, which replaces text as you type over it. If you are used to working with other word processors or text editors that use the Insert key differently, this can be awkward.
In some word processors and [...]

One of the benefits of using an office suite like Microsoft Office is that the programs in the suite all interact with each other well. For example, you can easily embed an Excel 2007 worksheet into a Word 2007 document and be able to edit the spreadsheet in Word.
To embed a new, empty Excel spreadsheet [...]

Cells in Excel can be formatted in many different ways. One way to format a cell is to align the contents of the cell horizontally or to indent the contents to the left or the right by a specified amount.
This is similar to the indenting done in a word processor, such as Word. The difference [...]