Word XP/2002

If you have a Microsoft Word document type you produce frequently, why don’t you save a stripped-down version of it as a template? It will save you time in creating future document. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial.

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Ever have the same phrase, sentence or even paragraph repeat over and over in a document you’re typing? Microsoft Word’s AutoText feature can help automate it!

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Once you’ve produced a redlined document with Word’s Track Changes feature, you can finalize the document with the Accept and Reject buttons on the toolbar. Here’s how.

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What if you (or your attorney) don’t want to actually change a particular section of a document, but just want to ask a question, point out a problem, just plain make a comment? Here’s a tutorial on how to insert a comment using Word’s Track Changes feature.

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Once you know how to turn on Word’s Track Changes feature, you may want to be able to see the document in its original state and with all the changes without having to accept or reject changes. Here’s an easy way to do that (with some caveats)

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Ever want to be able to automatically create a redline showing your document changes? You can, with Word’s Track Changes feature. Here are the basics.

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One of the things I’m on a rant about these days is loooooong documents.  Complicated documents, like 20+ page contracts and appellate briefs and stuff like that. Why?  Because they always seem to need special stuff inserted in them.  Like custom headers and footers.  And level-1 and level-2 and level-out-the-wazoo headings.  It’s enough to make [...]

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This is part two of a tutorial on how to control page numbers and page number formats using sections in Microsoft Word 2002-2003. Useful for changing page number styles in appellate briefs or for having distinct headers and footers in different parts of a document.

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Ever wonder why your straight quote characters get replaced by those curly ones in Word? Or why the “st” in “1st” gets superscripted automatically? Here’s the skinny on Microsoft Word’s AutoFormat As You Type feature … and how you can customize it.

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Ever type “(c)” in Microsoft Word and somehow mysteriously get a copyright symbol? Here’s how to fix that.

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