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I am sure there have been instances when you have wanted to rotate a page of text in your document 90 degrees. There are a couple of methods for doing this within MS Word. You can insert a text box and rotate your text within […]
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Sometimes after you have finished a list in your document you decide that you would like to change the font characteristics of a bullet or number in your list. But wait, you do not want to change the text in your list! Can you accomplish
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A client recently sent me a query, wanting to know if she could somehow omit the hyphenated words when performing a word count in her document. I am sure she is referencing compound words in her document (i.e., son-in-law, built-in). Actually there is no built-in
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Did you know Word has a formatting option that will allow you to show text as uppercase when it isn’t? Well it surely does! You can apply the all caps formatting very easily. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click Ctrl + D to
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As you know, you can use the Find and Replace tool in MS Word to look for and find just about anything in your documents. But why do it the long way??? Besides, that pesky dialog box very often gets in the way! Anyone who
‘Find’ and ‘Find Next’ Quickly in MS Word Read More »
I cannot tell you how many times I have received a document from a client who cannot correct the problems that he/she has encountered in it. For this reason, I instruct all my students to have the Show/Hide feature enabled in MS word. I would
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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