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Hyperlinks in MS Office Once a hyperlink is placed in your document, it is not out of the ordinary to periodically change that link somewhere down the road. Fortunately, Microsoft has made this task very easy for us. Follow the steps below to learn how: […]
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Engrave Text In Word Want to draw the reader’s eye to text in your document headings? Chapter headings? Etc.? Well, there is one sure-fire way to do that in Word. Make it elegant, make it interesting, make it professional looking! It’s called Engraving. When you
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Numbering In Word There is a handy Word feature that will allow you to easily pick up numbering where you previously left off. This is great for numbered lists that are interspersed with paragraphs that are formatted differently. Follow the steps below to learn how:
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Straggling Headings Sometimes, there are paragraphs that naturally belong with another paragraph. For instance, section headings belong with the paragraphs that follow them, a signature line belongs with the explanation line that may be after it, and a figure belongs with the caption that may
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Word 2016 Style Gallery Did you ever wonder if you could change what is shown in Word’s Style Gallery? How to add your own styles to it? Or rearrange the order in which your styles appear in the gallery? Well, as it happens, changing what
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Mail Merge In Word When you use the mail merge feature of Word, you can either merge to the printer or merge to a new document. In my opinion, the best option is to merge to the latter since it gives you the ability to
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Copy and Paste Colored Text A client who has a document containing many text selections formatted as red contacted me to inquire whether there was a method to select all of the red text and copy that text to a new document. There are a
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Table of Contents Perhaps you are writing the great American novel – or you just have a very long document. Either way, you might want to create a Table of Contents (TOC) for that document. The easiest method for creating a TOC is using heading
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AutoText AutoText has always been a very useful feature in Word. There are many reasons why you would want to remove an AutoText entry created previously, including just because you had a need for it, but no longer do. Suppose you had created several AutoText
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Calculating Expressions Obviously, a Word document is not a spreadsheet, but you can treat it like one (kinda) by adding a toolbar button that will allow you to quickly calculate values in your document based on numbers in a selection. For example, you could highlight
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A Tale of Two Clouds A while ago I wrote This is Why Microsoft OneDrive Sucks and ranted about placeholders, Scrooge-like storage woes and weird file naming. Well, I’m back and I’m both on the warpath and singing its praises, so how weird is that? This time
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How many times have you been typing away only to glance down and discover that Caps Lock is on? Fortunately, Excel can catch these errors for you – IF I tell it to! Follow the steps below to learn how: On your Ribbon, Click the
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I have received frantic e-mails and phone calls from clients telling me that all of a sudden when they open Word their document opens up with a strange graph paper effect. Well, there are a couple of reasons why this may have happened, but the
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As you may or may not know, in Excel you can add a comment to a cell that is only visible when someone hovers their mouse over it. But can you do it in Word as well? The short answer is no, it does not
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