Formatting

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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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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If you’ve ever hesitated to use columns in your Microsoft Word documents because you didn’t know how, here’s a basic primer.

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Have a footnote in Microsoft Word 2007 that keeps dropping down to a subsequent page? Here’s how to fix it.

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Got a brief or other long document? Ensure consistent formatting throughout with Microsoft Word’s Styles & Formatting feature.

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Inserting a table into a Microsoft Word document is quick and easy. Here, I show you three different ways to do it.

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Having trouble converting your current WordPerfect documents into Word? Here are four ways to get your documents into the new format.

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Here’s a video tutorial showing how Block Protect in Microsoft Word can sometimes mess up pagination, and how to fix it.

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Word has a nifty replacement for WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes feature. Find out about it here.

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