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A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me if I knew how to do this, as he was writing up a document about a PC-only application in which he wanted to include screenshots, and rather than switch back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows XP, it seemed easier to do it all in Microsoft Word on the PC partition of his MacBook Pro. After a little googling, we found this wonderful little article that explains how easy it is to accomplish this task. Now go forth and PrintScreen!

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

System requirements

Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update is installed on your computer. To verify that you have installed this update, select the Microsoft Component Plugin file in the Microsoft Office 2004/Office folder on your hard disk, and then on the File menu, click Get Info.

Additionally, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

The next time you need to add bold or italic text to a Microsoft Word document, don’t click the B or I button in the Formatting toolbar. Use keyboard shortcuts to apply basic character formatting.

To add bold, press Command B then release the keys and start typing. To end the bold styling, press Command B again. For italic text, press Command I and release the keys. To end italic text, press Command I again.

You copy and paste a block of text from one Microsoft Word document into another.

But the style of the pasted text doesn’t match what you’ve already typed. You could solve the problem by selecting the text and clicking Clear Formatting from the Styles palette. But if you’re into keyboard shortcuts (and if you aren’t really should be), you can take care of the problem without messing with Styles palette. Start by selecting all of the text (Command A). Press Command Shift N to remove paragraph styles. Press Control Spacebar to remove any manual character formatting. All the formatting, except for Normal, is gone. I’m loving it.