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Create a shortcut to your favorite font in Word
Techguide Create a keyboard shortcut and apply your most-wanted Word fonts wherever and whenever you want.
Create process diagrams in less time
Techguide Prior to Word 2007, adding process diagrams to Word documents required a lot of resizing of both the graphics and the text.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Trade tabs for tables in Word
Techguide Working with tabs in Word can be a challenge. A simple solution to this potentially tricky problem is to use nested tables without having to set the tabs. Mary Ann Richardson shows you how.
Display a full Windows command-prompt history
Techguide By changing the size of this history list, you can all commands you've typed in a particular session and avoid frustration.
Tags: Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Infrastructure/architecture management, Command, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, command button, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, keyboard
Control where Word hyphenates a word
Techguide Follow this tip to determine where Word hyphenates your content.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., MsgBox, C, vbOKOnly, command button, Tools Menu, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access
Easy parallel columns in Word
Techguide Newspaper columns are easy to create in Word, but parallel columns can be troublesome. The solution? Use Word tables.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Column, C, Borders Books & Music, command button, Michigan, vbCrLf, e-mail, Microsoft Excel
Fill Word form fields with Access data
Techguide When you need to bring your Access data into a Word form, a little VBA can expedite the task. Susan Harkins walks through an example to demonstrate the process.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Table, Form, Record, Microsoft VBA, File Menu, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Distribute data evenly across your Word table's columns and rows
Techguide If you are having trouble reading the text in your Microsoft Word table, here's how you can solve the problem.
Tags: Microsoft Office
What to do when you get margin placement errors in Word
Techguide What do you do when you get the message, "The margins of section n are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue"? Don't worry about complex algebra--get Word to fix it for you. Mary Ann Richardson simplifies the process of what to do.
Set a table format for your entire Word document
Techguide If you often work on lengthy Word documents that contain tables that are the same format, do you usually grumble when you have to reset the format? Learn how to ease your frustrations by setting your desired format as the default for all tables.
Convert Word 2007 documents to PDF format
Techguide Converting your documents, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to PDF is easy with Office 2007.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Correct a Word document when lists won’t renumber correctly
Techguide A few simple steps will help you make sure the numbered list in your Word document sorts the way it should.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Commands that help format Word 2007 documents
Techguide Word 2007's Ribbon has two commands--Change Case and Clear Formatting--that make formatting easier.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Keep Word commands handy with Office 2007's toolbar
Techguide There are a lot of useful features on Office 2007's ribbon--there are even too many to sort through at times. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to use the Quick Access Toolbar to put the Word tools and commands you use most often.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Use Word's Tables and Borders toolbar to quickly merge and split table cells
Techguide See how easy it is to use the Tables and Borders toolbar to merge cells if your Word table contains too many cells in a row or too many rows in a column. Also, learn how you can change table dimensions with this toolbar.
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