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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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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Office VBA Tips

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

Download Office 2013 VBA Documentation


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


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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:



Smart Art 2013


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Keyboard ALT 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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