Microsoft Word articles
Fields are one of the most useful features of MS Word! I think that most of you know that you can use fields to insert anything in your document ranging from a date to the time, to summary information in a document! There are times […]
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I have a client who wrote to me asking if it was possible to include unique serial numbers in his document. More than that, he wanted the numbers to be specific and not in order. I advised my client that the quickest and easiest method
Sometimes you have a need for a slashed zero in your document. I am sure you have see seen them before. They are very often used in technical or academic documents. They are used mainly to show the difference between zero and the capital
We should all know about AutoText entries by now right? Ever want to have a shortcut key to enter a sentence or phrase in your document? Well AutoText sort of has a built in shortcut key. Once you have created your entry, you can key
There have been times when I have had to search for comment marks in a Word document. For instance, a client once sent me her large document that had been copied and pasted from another document and she was getting strange strings of text throughout
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Every time I run into this problem I can’t for the life of me remember how to fix it; Create a Word document – end the document with a table – if the table is exactly at the bottom of the document, Word automatically inserts
Don’t you sometimes long for the easy formatting of numbers in Excel to format your numbers in your Word tables? You are not alone! Sometimes there is a need to enter numbers in a table column complete with the dollar sign and have it look
Whether you inherit a document from someone else and you simply need to start from scratch, or you do a text dump from the Internet, you will someday need to know how to erase certain things from your document. There isn’t a one trick pony
I write a lot of documentation. For me junk text is necessary for a few reasons. I may not want to display real names or confidential information using prior documents when I write a How-To. Or I may not want people to concentrate on the
There really is no way to change all your AutoText entries en masse. But you can change them separately. To change the font in your AutoText entry, simply insert your AutoText entry and make the font change. Then select your entry and save it using
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Yes? Yes! When you click that key combination it no longer opens up the Find & Replace dialog box. What happens since version 2010 is that a pane will appear on the left-hand side of your screen that will allow you to search. Personally,
I come from the Flintstone age; I learned to type on an IBM Selectric typewriter. When I moved to computers, mice were obnoxious to me because I was used to doing everything without ever having to take my hands off the keyboard. Nowadays, shortcuts are
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Comments in MS Word is a great tool that allows you and your colleagues to to share thoughts and ideas while collaborating on a document. So, it would follow, that it would be nice if you could just copy one of those comments and paste
MS Word has great table features and tools. You can create and modify tables and place data in them. You can even have Word automatically adjust the dimensions of the cells in your table. There are times, however, when you may want to freeze the
