Microsoft Word articles
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 Read more
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 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 Read more
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 Read more
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). Read more
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: Read more
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 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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more