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A reader recently inquired whether she could use Outline Numbering in a table she had created in Word 2010. The answer is yes, you certainly can. The problem she was encountering was that when she wanted to promote or demote a level, she would tab. […]
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Word has mainly two kinds of breaks that we use in our documents: Page Breaks and Section Breaks. When you want to change the numbering in a section, you must insert a Next Page Break, which creates a new page/Section in your document. So, it
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Turns out that the Paste Options in Word can be annoying to some folks! We all know what Paste Options means, but just in case you do not, let me refresh your memory. When you copy a little nugget of text and want to paste
If you are a user of the numbered list feature in Word, you may have noticed that the numbers at the beginning of each item cannot be selected. And, as you add or delete items from your list, the other items are automatically renumbered. Normally
I would like to share a few handy and useful tricks for using the Find & Replace feature in Word with you. Feel free to follow along on your own computer, using your own documents. I usually encourage that interaction because once you have actually
I am sure you all know how to set tab stops in your Word documents by now. Word gives you complete control regarding which characters (to a certain extent) you can insert in the blank space created by the tab you insert in your document.
How many times a day do you have to go back to your last edit in your Word documents? Depending upon what you do for a living, it could be quite a few! As you may know I intensely dislike wasting time and keystrokes so
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One thing I have learned is that, even though I’m a tech, I don’t know everything. Yes, I admit it. That’s why I married a very smart woman who will every so often teach me something I did not know. Saying that, my wife has
Sidehead? What in the heck is a sidehead?? A lot of folks scratch their heads when I mention this topic as they have never heard the term before. Well sideheads are document headings that are in the margin of your document rather than in the
By default Word displays the text on your screen the same way it will appear when you print your document. Most trainers call this what you see is what you get, or WYSIWYG. There are times, however, when viewing your document in this way just
As a rule the applications within Microsoft Office work very well together. A perfect example of this is the ability to embed an Excel chart in a Word document! There are many, many reasons why one would want or need to embed an Excel chart
MS Word allows us to create accented letters in our documents very quickly using the accent shortcuts that are built into it. All you really have to do is use the shortcut key combination and then add the letter to be accented! Follow the steps
Here’s a slick little trick that a lot of folks don’t know about and it comes in very handy and saves you time, frustration and keystrokes! Follow the steps below to learn how to move paragraphs around in your documents: To move a paragraph up
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I get so many complaints from Word users regarding the use of CTRL + F in Word 2010. The good news is that it has always been within your power to make it work as it did in earlier versions! In Word 2010, CTRL +
