This week's topics cover an open dialogue box in Microsoft Word, the best replacement for Word 2007, a secure site for sharing family photos, and how to search for past columns.

Q: Here’s my problem.Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” ...

In the Table Properties, dialog box users can change Table, Column, Row, and Cell settings. How do I open the Table Properties dialog box in Word? To open the Properties dialog box is easy to open.

Even though you may be in a program like Pages, TextEdit, or Microsoft Word, the Open and Save dialog boxes in these programs essentially open up a window to the OS X Finder so you can browse for ...

A Symbol dialog box will open search for the X symbol, then click OK for both dialog boxes. If you want to find the x used in this tutorial, select Wingdings2 from the Font list box.

Using Open, you can open several documents with one effort. First, open the Open dialog box by choosing Open from the File menu or tab (2010) or by clicking the Office button (in 2007).

The default display setting for Microsoft Word is to show separate documents in separate windows. However, this setting can be changed to display every open document in the same window.

Working with Word tables can be quite tricky. These simple tips will show you how to make a table and format it perfectly.