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Many times you find yourself working on a confidential or sensitive document and sometimes that document is so confidential and sensitive that it requires a level of protection and security. Of course, your document can be marked final or you can assign special privileges to […]
Word will allow you (IF you use styles) (and I sincerely hope you do), to force your headings to begin on a new page. But suppose you want your heading to begin on an odd numbered page? Ok, so there is no automatic way based
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I remember once I was asked to use multiple references to the same footnote and I freaked. My first thought was, “great…how do I do this?” Luckily my normal approach to these things is “I know this program can do this, all I need to
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When I say Automatic Number I mean using a field for a number in your document. I am sure that there are lots of folks out there that use these in Academia and legal fields, insurance companies, realtors, etc. For instance, suppose you have a
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Not sure what key combination I accidentally hit the other day in my office while working on a document (time sensitive of course) but lo and behold I suddenly had a split screen in front of me! Half of my document was in the top
As you know, footnotes are used in documents to provide references or annotations. It is very easy to insert automatic footnotes in documents using Word, but suppose you would like to use a custom footnote mark? Turns out you can do this and just as
In Academia there are often very lengthy documents that have myriad footnotes and they sometimes necessitate cross-referencing. This often occurs in technological business manuals as well. The issue here is that when you use automatic footnote numbering the cross-references can be a burden if you
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Folks receive an e-mail and notice that there is what they call a “hard return” at the end and double returns between paragraphs. One could waste a forest and print out the e-mail the way it is, but that seems a bit silly doesn’t it?
I was recently asked if it were possible to view the formulas that are in table cells, which were usually too long for the smaller cells in the table and not completely visible. And wouldn’t it be lovely if Word had a feature like those
Here’s a lesser known method to insert dates into your Word documents. Follow the steps below to learn how: Place your cursor on a blank line in your document. Display the Insert tab on your Ribbon. In the Text group, click Date & Time to
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One of the questions I am often asked is how to create compound characters in Word. Sometimes folks want a caret in mathematics or scientific equations. Word, by default, makes certain compound characters available to you straight out of the box. These characters depend on
You may have wondered if there is a method where you could format multiple documents so that they will be formatted uniformly because it is often difficult to work with documents when they are formatted differently. The one way that you can make this happen
Creating forms in Word is easy – folks do it all the time! But suppose you want a form that folks can fill in – on their computer? Not to worry! Turns out you can do this, and fairly painlessly as well! You will need
Sometimes you have a table with a fill color in the top row to make it stand out. But how about if you decide you would like to have that exact same fill color in another row in your table to draw the reader’s eyes
