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If you’ve ever wondered why *this* paragraph looks a little different from *that* one, or couldn’t figure out how to get some text you’ve inserted into a document to just behave, you need some serious formatting diagnostic tools. Fortunately, in Microsoft Word, there are several available to help with both diagnosing and fixing these head-scratchers.
In my recent guest post on Legal Practice Pro, I show you three indispensable tools for not only figuring out what’s wrong, but leading you to precisely the right menu option to fix the problem. The post includes instructions on setting these up so that whenever you encounter a formatting issue, you can know, at a glance, what’s required to fix it.
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Read MoreBuilding a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word is ridiculously easy if you use Styles to format your document headings. Here’s the quick-and-dirty tutorial on inserting an easy TOC in your document.
Read MoreEver 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.
Read MoreEver type “(c)” in Microsoft Word and somehow mysteriously get a copyright symbol? Here’s how to fix that.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever hesitated to use columns in your Microsoft Word documents because you didn’t know how, here’s a basic primer.
Read MoreGot a brief or other long document? Ensure consistent formatting throughout with Microsoft Word’s Styles & Formatting feature.
Read MoreInserting a table into a Microsoft Word document is quick and easy. Here, I show you three different ways to do it.
Read MoreHaving trouble converting your current WordPerfect documents into Word? Here are four ways to get your documents into the new format.
Read MoreHere’s a video tutorial showing how Block Protect in Microsoft Word can sometimes mess up pagination, and how to fix it.
Read MoreWord has a nifty replacement for WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes feature. Find out about it here.
Read MoreWhether you need to simply indent a paragraph a bit on the left, or need to create a double-indented quote or a hanging indent, the Format Paragraph function in Microsoft Word is what you’ll need.
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