Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. 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 ...

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 ...

A Properties dialog box will open. In the Properties dialog box, click the Unblock button on the bottom right of the dialog box (if it is available). Click the Apply button, then click OK.

Click "Open With" to view a slide-out menu of options. Click "Choose Default Program" to open the Open With dialog box. Double-click "Microsoft Word" to open the file with Microsoft Word.

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.

Moving down the Line And Breaks tab of Microsoft Word's Paragraph dialog box, the next option is Keep With Next. Imagine you have two paragraphs in your document: paragraph 1 and paragraph 2.

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.

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 ...

Have old Microsoft Word or AppleWorks spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, or draw documents that won't open under Lion? Ted Landau offers some advice.