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Paragraph formatting basics

by The Guru on January 21, 2012

You don’t need me to tell you what a paragraph is — it’s a block of text that ends with a “hard return” you insert by pressing the Enter key. In Microsoft Word, paragraph formatting covers such attributes as justification, indentation, line spacing, and what WordPerfect calls “block protect” (called something else by Word, but [...]

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Character Formatting Basics

by The Guru on January 16, 2012

Changing various font attributes, like font name, size, bold/italic/underline, special effects like superscript and strikethrough, and changing text case.

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Opening and Editing Microsoft Word Documents

by The Guru on January 15, 2012

The basics of opening and editing a Microsoft Word document.

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Creating and Saving Microsoft Word Documents

by The Guru on January 15, 2012

How to create a new document in Microsoft Word and save it as a .docx file or in other word processing formats.

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Navigation and Views in Microsoft Word

by The Guru on January 14, 2012

Navigating in a Microsoft Word document is very much like navigating in any word processing program in Microsoft Windows, including WordPerfect. This lesson in the WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word shows you how to move around in a Word document using your keyboard and mouse.

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Introduction to Microsoft Word’s Ribbon Interface

by The Guru on December 1, 2011

An introduction to the Microsoft Word Ribbon interface.

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If you’ve ever seen full-justified text in Microsoft Word that had a really stretched out last line in a paragraph, you don’t have to throw up your hands and convert it to left-justified text. There’s a quick and easy fix. Click through for the video demonstration.

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