Style Sets

Formatting collections

Here is a tutorial about Style sets. You can develop and reuse your own collection of font/attribute choices.

How to use:


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Language Formatting

Spell Check

When you use another language in your document, the spell checker will find errors in the text.
To avoid that, format the words with a language style.

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Code Copy

Excel to Word

You can select, copy, and paste to put Excel data into a Word document, but this piece of VBA automates to process.


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Drag Query to Word

Drop in

Rather than duplicate the effort, an Access query can be dragged into a Word document.

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Quick Parts

Reusable

Word 2007+ uses the term Quick Parts for Building Blocks.
You can use any kind of content, including pictures, tables, document properties, hyperlinks, and more to create a building block.

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Make Templates

How to

This link tells what you need to know to create templates for your own or organizational use.

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Line Numbers

Count them all

1. In Word, click Page Layout (File > Page Setup).
   
   
2. Click Line Numbers.
   
   
3. Choose Line Numbering Options.
   
   
4. Click Line Numbering . . . .
   
   
5. Put a check in the box labeled "Add line numbering."
   
   
6. Set "Start at" to 1, "From text" to "Auto," and "Count by" to 1.
   
   
7. Under "Numbering" select "Restart each page."
   
   
8. Click OK.
   
   
9. Click OK.
   
   
10. Make sure you're looking at Print Layout.

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Barcodes in Word

Print your own

Printing bar codes in Microsoft Word documents.

Barcodes

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Autofit Table

Fit to page

Select the table and right-click.
Scroll to Autofit and then select AutoFit to Window.

Word will automatically adjust the table width to any margin or page orientation changes.

Here are some more table fit suggestions:

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Windows Split

Easy trick

Here's how to split the open window and/or create new windows.

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Blog Using Word

Easy Editor

Taylor Gibb explains how to set it up.

 Blog with Word


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Last Doc Shortcut

Back Quick

"A separate shortcut with a special switch that will open the last document that was open in Word."

Last Document


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Move Up the Page

The old fingers walking trick

If you want to move words, paragraphs, bullets, up or down the keyboard shortcut is Shift+Alt + Up/Down/ arrow.


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Multiple-Choice Template

A, B, or C

A template for creating a test paper.
Multiple-choice test or survey kit:

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Long Bar

So far to go

Here's how to inset an overbar or macron, Ā, in Word.

Overbar


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Auto Backup

Beep, beep

Automatically creates backups on every save.


AutoHistory: Every time you save your document (and something has changed), a backup (of the history) is created.

AutoHistory


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Sources

Citations, Bibliographies, Equations, References

When putting together a research paper, one is expected to quote authorities.
Word can make it possible:

Final Paper Time


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Hidden Data

Secrets revealed

Ed Bott has a discussion on Metadata. That information, such as names and notes, which is hidden in Word documents.

MrBLaw


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Word Features

New or reacquaint

2007 came up with a number of new and improved features. Most are the same in 2010-13.
Here's a description of some built in tools.

Beyond the Ribbon


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Custom QAT

Access additions

Applications put most of the most-used commands on the Home tab's Ribbon, not everything is there. You may want to add Close, Close All, or Print commands, for example.

In the upper Left corner is the Quick Access Tool bar.

To update the QAT:
Click the down-pointing arrow to the right of the QAT.
Choose any common commands (New, Close, Print, etc.) by checking the option.


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