In academia and the legal arena, there is a frequent need for special characters in documents. The two most frequently used special characters which are used in these particular areas are the Pilcrow (paragraph symbol) and the section symbol. The pilcrow looks like a backwards
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You should know that if you are using the pattern-matching capability in MS Word, you cannot search from some special characters as you normally do when searching. In the normal search you indicate the start of a special character by using the caret (^) followed
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A lot of folks are not aware of the pattern matching capabilities of the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. You can, for instance, specify that you only want to match at the beginning or end of a word by using the < and
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I don’t know about you, but I have on more than one occasion had a footnote so long that it did not fit in the footnote space on my page. If this has happened to you as well, you noticed then that MS Word will
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Suppose you would like to link fields in two different documents. As an example, let’s say you have a document wherein your client enters their name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and date. Also suppose that you would to be able to lift that information
As you most likely already know, when you create a chart in MS Excel, it will automatically create a chart legend for you, depending on which type of chart you have created. You are not, however, limited to using that particular legend. You do not
I can think of several reasons why one would want to rotate one page of text in their document, but I am sure you could all come up with a few on your own. Having said that, there are a couple of methods to do
There is a little known shortcut in Excel if you like to use your mouse, that allows you to navigate your worksheet. It is a kind of fun little trick I think. When you select a cell, Excel places a bold outline around your cell.
There is a tool in MS Excel that allows you to cycle through the font colors available to you, however, it is little known because it is not readily available to you. Follow the steps below to add the tool so that it is available
Endnotes are references that are placed at the end of a section or the end of your document in MS Word. Follow the steps below to learn how to insert Endnotes in your documents: Place your cursor where you would like your Endnote to appear
So now you know that you can create special AutoText entries to use in your documents. But wait, suppose you have a need to rename it at a later date? Well rest easy. There is a very easy method to accomplish this task. Follow the
You will want to customize the AutoText feature in Word in order to get the most benefit when working with words and phrases that you find yourself using over and over again. Fortunately, it is very easy to do this in versions 2007 and 2010.
Once you have created your AutoText entries, you may, at a later date, have a need to edit them. There is no special editing feature to accomplish this in MS Word unfortunately. The best method to edit an AutoText is described below. Follow these
When the information in your worksheet will not fit on a single page, Excel will break it up for you at row and column boundaries, and then it will print your data on multiple pages. You cannot control the order in which Excel will pring
