Large Documents

Plan ahead

Jack M. Lyon has prepared a list of steps to be considered when working with large documents:

"I can't leave the topic of typesetting without explaining some of the things I learned on the last book I typeset--in Microsoft Word. The book had more than 400 pages and several hundred footnotes, and Word would have handled it better if I'd been more particular about the following:"

Typesetting Tips for Word


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Work that Menu

List of project docs

A collection of tips including:

Word (pre-07) allows you to add a menu to the toolbar that can keep a list of papers you're working on:

1. Go to Tools>Customize.
   
2. Click the Commands tab.
   
3. Under the list of Categories, click Built-in menus.
   
4. Under the list of Commands, locate and drag the Work menu to your toolbar.
   
5. Click Close

Work Menu

In Word 2007+, you can see a list of 50 recently used documents when you click the Office logo. If you don't want them to drop off the list, they can be pinned.


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Spell Checker Update

Word 2007+

A discussion of how Spell Checker works and how it has improved over the years.

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