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Repairing Word™

Very often you will suddenly notice WORD™becomes very sluggish. Since to a writer WORD™ is the lifeline to creating your manuscripts this is not something you should put up with. Especially when there is a simply solution. WORD™ Repair. It’s an option on the WORD™ you might not be familiar with. WORD™ comes with it’s own Repair Kit already built in for these emergencies. Better to learn it now than wait till when you get into the middle of a deadline crunch and have WORD™ pull a tissy fit!

Before you start>>

1) Close all documents
2) Close All Windows you have open
3) Open WORD™
4) have you Microsoft™ WORKS™ or
Microsoft™ OFFICE™ CD/DVD ready because you will need it

First where to find it!!

Open WORD™….at the top of the Tool Bar is HELP.
Click on Help. In the drop down menu is the option
DETECT AND REPAIR
Click on that and Start the process.

This is the process in action. Notice the option of discarding customized settings and restoring default settings. If you have a default template such as fonts, margins, line count for formatting this will be reset and any additions options. Such as I used this little guy as my office assistant instead of the Paperclip Guy. This will have to be reset, too. Unless there is something major going on, I do not select this option. Leave everything as you have it.

Process in Actions>>>

Here it is gathering the information about your settings etc.

Request for CD/DVD >>>

After it gathers the information it starts the repair process. At this point, it will ask for your CD ROM/ DVD so it can access installation files. Insert this disk into the Drive and click OK.
The process will continue

Ta Da!!! All done.
Now isn’t that painless!!
Suddenly WORD™ is back to being a good little program.

Happy Writing!

© DeborahAnne MacGillivray
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