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  Saturday, July 23, 2011 – Permalink –

Page Breaks

Demo tutorial


You can control when Word decides to break for a new page.

Ctrl+Enter is the keyboard shortcut, but there are a number of variations.


This MS link has both Demos and text tutorials.
Page breaks

BTW; a merged document is made up of Section breaks, not Page breaks.

For ease of printing, Replace ^b with ^m



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  Thursday, July 21, 2011 – Permalink –

Word News (Still)

Here's another good newsletter



Editorium
Jack M. Lyon, a book editor who got tired of working the hard way and started creating programs to automate editing tasks in Microsoft Word. He's been editing more than twenty years and started working on the computer in 1985.


(Unfortunately has not published recently, but still full of good information)
A few back issues of Editorium Update arranged chronologically:

  • Deleting Unused Styles
  • Pasting Tracked Revisions
  • Indexing with a Two-Column Concordance
  • Fancy Sorting
  • Editing by Concordance
  • Making a Concordance
  • Numbers by Chicago
  • Fixing Typos Automatically
And more



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<Doug Klippert@ 3:35 AM

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  Saturday, July 16, 2011 – Permalink –

Bad Words

Not the best features


Katherine Murray from TechRepublic, lists ten word features that can be replaced with the new tools.


#1: The Font dialog box
(She says use Themes, I prefer to control individual components)


#2: Mark As Final
(I agree, it's not that Final)


#3: Save As Word XML
(I agree. "Today’s Word is completely built on Office OpenXML, so now all the files you create and save in Word 2007 are actually saved in XML". )


#4: Mail Merge Wizard
( I agree. Mail merge is not that hard. It is only made more difficult with the Wizard)


#5 Drawing Canvas
(Down with the Canvas!)


#6: Signature Line


#7: Web Tools


#8: Document Map


#9: Microsoft Clip Organizer


#10 Document Properties



10 features you can skip




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<Doug Klippert@ 3:10 AM

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  Thursday, July 14, 2011 – Permalink –

Office VBA Tricks

Video + Free code


"Learn tips and use sample code for several Office applications. These tips can help you to be more productive and can also be a starting point for developing your own tools, utilities and techniques."

  • Update Word Document Statistics in the Title Bar
  • Create Outlook Rules Programmatically
  • Delete Repeated Text Throughout a Word Document
  • Run Macros Based on the Value of One or More Excel Spreadsheet Cells
  • Disable Related Controls on a PowerPoint Slide After a User Clicks an Input Control
  • Display Reminder Information When a User Opens an Office Document
  • Synchronize an Access Main Form to a Subform and Vice Versa
  • Log Worksheet Changes to an XML File
  • Merge Body Text from Multiple Outlook E-mail Messages to a Word Document
  • Use the Office Assistant as an Alternative to Displaying and Retrieving User Input
Ten Tips for Office VBA Developers

VBA Tips & Tricks

Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010


(VBA is VBA and is, in most cases, usable in all versions of Office)
 



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  Tuesday, July 05, 2011 – Permalink –

Drawing Canvas

More than I want


The Draw layer has been around since about Word 97, but it has not been as intrusive as it is in Word 2002+.

Try to place an AutoShape on a page and the Drawing Canvas pops up by default.

To turn off this feature, go to:
Tools>Options.
On the General tab, remove the check mark from
"Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes"

To just dismiss it each time, choose your AutoShape and then touch the Delete or Esc key before drawing the object.

Here's some more information.


Knowledge Base
General Information About Floating Objects
(a discussion of Word's floating objects and layers)

As I understand it, the Drawing canvas is not really a new layer. The following illustration shows the classic layers. It is from the Knowledge base article:
How to Place Text over a Graphic


___________________
/                   /
/   <SURFACE OF     /
/       PAPER>      /
/                   /  /
Front drawing layer  -------------------  /
MAIN TEXT LAYER  =================== / /
Back drawing layer  -------------------/ / /
/ /
Front drawing layer  -------------------/ /
(Header/footer) BOTTOM TEXT LAYER  =================== /
Back drawing layer  -------------------/



You can dump the layer in 2007 in the Office button Word Option equivalent of Tools>Options:






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<Doug Klippert@ 3:51 AM

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  Sunday, July 03, 2011 – Permalink –

Keyboard All Codes

Quick inserts


Here is a collection of Alt codes. There is also a free download that you can post near your computer.

  • Alt Codes for Letters with Accents for Languages
  • Alt Codes for Bullets, Symbols and Other Special Characters
  • Alt Codes for Mathematical Symbols - Symbols used in Mathematics
  • Alt Codes for Currency Symbols
  • Alt Codes for Drawing
  • Alt Codes for Characters from the Greek Alphabet
  • Alt Codes for "Additional" Letters particularly for Nordic / Scandanavian Languages
  • Alt Codes for Spanish
  • Intellectual Property Right symbols.
  • Alt Codes for Arrows
  • Alt Codes for Punctuation and Editing
  • Alt Codes in Computer Programming
Alt Codes

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