Few of us can accurately guess the number of words in a block of text, just by looking at it, even with years of practice. Fortunately, a 'ballpark estimate' is usually good enough for most purposes. There are times, however, when your word count does matter. Directory listings with specific length restrictions, for example. Or press releases, ...

Microsoft's Office Live Workspace – just launched – is a free web-based service that lets people organize documents and projects online, access their documents via the web,  and share them with others who may view and comment on shared documents.  It's been described as an online extension of MS Office desktop software, Microsoft's ...

Spend just a half-hour in a nonprofit office, and you're likely to be all too familiar with  MS Word's mail merge feature -- or at least, with the sheets of peel-and-stick mailing labels that can quickly be generated with it!  And where would a nonprofit be, without mail merge to help quickly create those direct mail pieces and ...