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Hanging Indent A hanging indent is created when the first line of your paragraph starts at the left margin but the second and subsequent lines are indented from the left margin. Hanging indents are common formatting in many documents and for good reason. It keeps […]
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Marking Text Of Multiple Pages We touched briefly on marking text in Technical Documents Part III. Today we will build on that and learn how to mark text over multiple pages. If you want to mark several pages of text, follow the steps below to
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Let’s get straight to this. Many times in a technical document, you need to insert a Bibliography. Fortunately, Word makes this a very easy and straightforward task. Adding a Bibliography Follow the steps below to learn how: Click on the References tab of your Ribbon.
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Normal.dotm Whether you know it or not, every document you create in Word starts with the template named Normal.dotm. This template includes the default styles and behavior that determine the look of each new document you create. You may modify this template to avoid resetting
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If you have ever written a term paper, you are acutely aware of how important and time consuming the bibliography and source citing can be. Well, do I have good news for you! Microsoft Word 2016 will help you do all these things quickly and
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Creating technical documents may require more formatting than the documents most folks work on. Microsoft Word though, provides the tools necessary to make creating technical documents very easy. Below, I will cover some of the elements common to technical documents and the features you can
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Repeating Last Action There is a key that is hardly used and yet is a highly efficient shortcut for speeding up tasks in Word and Excel when you need to repeat the same action, once, twice or many, many times! That key is the F4
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Templates Templates in Word are a guide for how you would like your document to appear. One great use of templates is to store boilerplate documents (i.e., contracts, forms, legal pleadings, etc.). I use templates to create boilerplate documents all the time. Everyone knows that
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Sure Office 2016 has been around for a bit now, but trust me, there are still lots and lots of users who are still slogging through the settings that just are not to their liking. Those users will never be comfortable with the applications the
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The latest iteration of Word is geared more toward folks using the Web. The default line spacing has been changed to 1.15 — a more casual look that works well if you are creating content for the Web. If you are not, however, and most
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Hyphenation is the process of adding hyphens to words at the beginning of lines so the hyphenated part will fit at the end of the previous line. Hyphens are inserted between syllables in a word. How To Hyphenate Selections Word offers you two types of
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Yes, I know a gazillion people who think it is just easier to keep hitting that Tab key all the way across their document so that blocks of text will line up for them. That’s all well and good if they like wasting time and
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How To Change Column Layout On the Page Layout tab of your Ribbon, Word provides a tool you can use to modify the number of columns in your document or in a text selection. Follow the steps below to learn how: In the Page Setup
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Fonts are a necessary part of any computer system, but especially systems that use word processing programs (i.e., Microsoft Word). Very often, different systems have different fonts. There could be times when one may consider transferring fonts from one system to another. You should know
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