Word 2010 articles
A reader wrote recently inquiring about the documents he takes home to work on. It seems like the documents he brings home on his flash drive always open in Read Only. I asked him if he had the same version of Word at home as […]
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Ok, I think I have covered in past posts how you can format your documents in levels in Word (i.e., characters, paragraphs and sections. Of the three, sections seem to be the one that throws folks for a loop when it comes to formatting. If
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I know I have covered assigning a macro to a button on Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), but did you know that you could also add buttons in the text of your document?? These buttons have a macro or Word command assigned to them and you
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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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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
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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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 +
By default Word can – and does – impose certain changes to your text. One example is that Word will add borders to the paragraphs in your document based on what you key in. Let’s say, for example, you key in three underlines on a
Frequently in the business and academia world we have several different sections in long Word documents. It can be very frustrating when editing a document though when you want to jump to a page in a different section. So, how do you use the Go
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