by The Guru on June 30, 2011
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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by The Guru on March 10, 2011
If you love fully-justified text (with straight left and right margins) like I do, you hate when the spacing between characters gets messed up because of it. Here’s how to fix it.
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by WordGuru on May 6, 2010
One of the tactics I regularly recommend to users when transferring content from an old WordPerfect document is to use Paste, Special, Unformatted Text instead of just the plain Paste or CNTRL-V commands: The advantage here is that Paste Special clears out all of the formatting so the newly-pasted text doesn’t mess up your nice [...]
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by WordGuru on May 3, 2010
Here’s how to use the Format Painter button to copy formats from one block of text to another in Microsoft Word.
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by VideoTutor on November 12, 2009
Got a brief or other long document? Ensure consistent formatting throughout with Microsoft Word’s Styles & Formatting feature.
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by WordGuru on April 1, 2009
There’s more to character formatting in Word than bold, italics, and underline. Learn how to use even more options in the Format, Font menu.
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