There is a fine line between making your Word tables boring and eye catching. You do not want to make your table so busy that it loses its purpose, but you do want to draw the reader’s eye to it! One way to do this […]
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Using Styles in Word allows you to apply formatting that you have defined to blocks of text in your documents. Most of the folks I train are terrified of Styles in Word. Having said that, once I show them what a time saver they are,
You may already know how easy it is to copy and paste an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) into Word documents. The link appears in blue (the default) and can be activated using the key combination shortcut Ctrl + Enter. But did you know that you
Styles make your life so much easier because you create a document once and then you always have it at your fingertips, formatted exactly to your standards for any particular use. Styles are like creating an exemplar for how you want your document to be
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I teach all my students to enable Show/Hide and always have your non-printing characters showing. Why? Well because then you can see what is going on in your document. If one line of text looks out of kilter you can immediately see if there is
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Microsoft introduced a new feature in Word 2007 named Alignment Tabs, which are reminiscent of WordPerfect’s Relative Tabs feature. Alignment tabs have been retained in Word 2010, so let’s take a quick look. Alignment tabs can be useful because they readjust automatically if you change
If you want to create your Bibliography in the easiest way possible, you’re in luck because Word 2010 makes it extremely easy! Were you aware that you could create a Bibliography in Word 2010? Well you can! You can also format in-text citations, insert footnotes
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A reader recently wrote to me concerning a problem he was having with his Table of Contents (TOC). He had a heading on two lines and wanted it to appear in his TOC on one line. Below is what he wanted to appear on one
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I get a lot of questions about SmartArt. Everyone wants to know what it is and how do they use it. SmartArt is simply one of the graphics features that Microsoft really worked on in version 2007 and they have expanded it even further in
There are occasions when using Word that you have a very, very large document, with many chapters, sections and sub-sections with several levels of headings and subheadings. When this happens, such as a technical manual, you may want to help those reading the finished product
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You can protect cells in your Excel worksheet pretty easily, but protecting cells in an Microsoft Word Table – not so much, although it can be done. How? Well you insert a Text Form field control into each cell where you want your users to
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It is very easy to insert page numbers in earlier versions of Word. You simply open the header or footer and click the appropriate options on the Header and Footer toolbar. The Page Numbers option is also available from the Insert menu. It is still
If, like me, you find that you often work in the Print Layout view in MS Word, you may find using text boundaries to be useful. Text boundaries are dotted lines that appear in your document to delineate the limits of text elements. When you
