Office 2007 Bible

Finding Program Options

You can adjust Office program settings such as how often the program saves AutoRecover information, where to save files by default, how certain elements look onscreen, and on and on. Each of the Office programs offers dozens of settings for changing program appearance and behavior.

Opening the Options dialog box

Each Office application gathers its settings in an Options dialog box. The top Office applications that use the new user interface—specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access—introduce a new way of opening the Options dialog box. In these applications, you use the following method to open the Options dialog box (rather than use the Tools Options command):

1.	Click the Office button.
2.	Click the Program Name Options button. As shown in Figure A-1, this button is near the bottom right of the File menu. The button includes the name of the Office application that you’re working in. Figure A-1. Click the Program Name Options button near the bottom-right corner of the file menu to choose options.

Navigating in the dialog box

The left side of the Options dialog box lists the categories of available settings. Figure A-2 shows the Options dialog box for Word. To display the options in another category, click the category in the list at the left. ...