Microsoft Word articles
You all know I love working efficiently and saving time and working from your list of recently used Docuemtns in Word is a great way to do just that. Say you were working on a document yesterday and at the end of the day you […]
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Using Styles in word allows you to apply formatting that you have defined to blocks of text in your documents. Most of the folks I train are terrified of styles in Word. Having said that, once I show them what a time saver they are,
A reader recently wrote to me asking where he could the Table Tools tab in MS Word 2010. Apparently I had referenced the Table Tools tab in an article and he could not find it. My response: It is there although not readily intuitive for
Most of my clients are a bit shy about using fields, mainly because they do not know how and so they are skittish about it. But they also do not know the power of fields in Word. Otherwise, they would be using them more often.
There are many uses for fields in MS Word. You can, for example, use SEQ codes to create automatic numbering which can be extremely helpful in the business world and in academia. Then there are the Fill-In fields, which you can use in a template.
There are occasions when you may have a document that is full of hidden text and now you need to make that hidden text visible. The quick answer is use the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. Follow the steps below to learn how.
A reader wrote to me recently inquiring how he could have a different header on different pages of his document. I am always suprised by how many e-mails I receive on this topic! When you create a header or footer in your MS Word document,
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Recently I received an e-mail query from one of my readers. Apparently I had referenced the Table Tool tab in an article and he could not find it. I could see where he might be confused and responded letting him know that it is not
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Hopefully you all know something about Styles in MS word since they are the basic structure of your documents. For example, every blank document in MS Word is based on the Normal style. So every time you create a new document you are using a
I get a lot of questions about SmartArt. Everyone wants to know what it is and how do they use it. SmartArt is simply one of the graphics features that Microsoft really worked on in version 2007 and they have expanded it even further in
Modify paragraph spacing I have had so many inquiries regarding the default line spacing in MS Word 2010 that I decided I should definitely cover the subject in an article and I hope this is helpful to all of you. It is very easy to
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Several folks have written to me inquiring about this topic. I have to preface my article by saying that this latest version of MS Word is only slightly less confusing than it was in 2003. Having said that, it is possible to create multilevel lists
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The numbering in Word 2007 is only slightly less confusing that it has been in previous versions and it still gives lots of folks heartburn when they use it. Following the steps below should clarify the process and make it a bit easier for you.
I have had quite a few inquiries regarding this latest version of MS Word and so I thought I would write an article covering some of the cool ways that this version of Word has changed and how it makes life easier for those of
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