Word 2010 articles
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 […]
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I received an e-mail recently asking me how to search a document for a specific field. As it turns out, it isn’t all that difficult to do! Follow the steps below to learn how: Be certain the field codes are visible in your document. If
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As you know from previous posts, fields are used frequently in MS Word documents. Often, fields in your document are updated automatically when you make edits to your document or print it. There can be instances though, when you may not want a field to
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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
Serial Numbers in a Word Document?? Read More »
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
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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
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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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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
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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,
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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
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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
Freeze a Table in MS Word Read More »
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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