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The Navigation Pane in Microsoft Word 2010

The Navigation Pane in Microsoft Word 2010 helps you to:

  • View the document structure
  • Reorganize content
  • Add and delete content
  • Browse the document
  • and more...

Read more about the Navigation Pane in our blog entry called The Navigation Pane in Microsoft Word 2010

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Fundamental Guidelines for Template Creation in MS Word 2003

  1. To create a template,
    a. Click File – New
    b. Click On my computer from the New Document window
    c. Select Blank Document from General tab
    d. Select Template from Create new in Templates window
    e. Click Ok
  2. To open a template from your folder, select the template > right click > Open.
    Note: The template will open as a document if double clicked.
  3. Always save it with the extension .dot

API Documentation Tutorial

In this tutorial, I will focus on the basics of an API function.

What is an API?

An API (Application Programming Interface) allows programmers to access and extend the functionality of a program through well-defined data structures and subroutine calls.

Take Windows as an example. Let us say you want to change the double click time for the mouse. How will you accomplish this? You accomplish this through a Windows API function called SetDoubleClickTime. Windows provides this specific API function for setting the double click time.

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