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.
If you ever want to insert a table in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010, there are four (count ’em, FOUR) ways to do it. Click the Read More link for detailed instructions, then pick your favorite!
A Legal Office Guru reader wrote in, asking for help with some forms she’d been asked to create to . “Is there a way to autopopulate a field?” she asked. “I’d like it to work similar to Adobe [Acrobat], where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. I’ve read something about making each field an REF field, but I don’t understand how to do it, and I’ve tried tons of Google search results. Can you help?”
To achieve that Adobe-like effect, I’d choose Word’s Bookmarks feature. Click the “Read More” link below for the full illustrated tutorial.
When you have to have a page number formatted with text (like “C-1 of 3”), then you need a working knowledge of how to insert the various page number fields in Microsoft Word. Here’s a tutorial using a real-life situation: an appellate brief with a specially numbered “Certificate of Interested Parties” section.
A Legal Office Guru reader has an “insert page number” macro that works just fine … until he logs off. How I solved his dilemma.
If your automatically-generated Table of Contents in Microsoft Word isn’t to your liking, you can fix it. From changing fonts to adjusting spacing and indentation, it’s all about modifying the TOC Styles within your document. Click through to view the entire tutorial, complete with screen shots showing each step.
If you want one-click access to the Microsoft Office commands, you need to use the Quick Access Toolbar. Here’s a video showing you two easy ways to add commands so you have quick and easy access to them as you work.
Here’s how to change the footnote separator, the footnote continuation separator, and the footnote continuation notice in Microsoft Word.
Don’t keep copying commonly-used blocks of text from old documents – that cut-and-paste routine will inevitably get you into trouble when you forget to edit out client-specific info. Instead, use Quick Parts to store generic text blocks like Certificates of Service, Signature Blocks, etc. Here’s a video to show you how.
Microsoft Word macros are NOT an advanced skill. Here’s some information to prove how easy it really is.
If you need to sort text in Word, whether it’s within a table or just typed straight, here’s how.
If you’ve ever had to line up columnar data in Word along the right-hand edge of the column (rather than by the left-hand edge), you need to know how to use right tabs. Here are step-by-step instructions.
If you ever have columns of numbers (particularly currency figures) you need lined up in Word, you need to learn about decimal tabs. Here’s a quick video introduction to inserting and using them.
Upgraded to Word 2007/2010 lately? Then you may have noticed your default line spacing got expanded. Here’s how to restore single spacing by default in all new documents.
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.
There’s a whole host of ways you can make the various Microsoft Office applications easier to use. In fact, most users don’t take full advantage of the options for customizing these applications to make the Office suite work better for them.
Today, we’re going to talk about one of the easiest customizations: the Status Bar.
Changing character case (from uppercase letters to lowercase and vice versa) is easy. Here are instructions for Word versions 2002-2010.
Ever want to go straight back to your last editing position in Microsoft Word? Use the “Go Back” feature. Here’s how.
It’s easy to have a different footer for the first page – just use the Page Setup function called “different first page.” But what if you need a different footer for the LAST page? Well, it may not be check-box easy, but it is possible. Here’s a video tutorial showing you exactly how.
Ever converted a WordPerfect document to Microsoft Word and discovered a watermark you couldn’t delete? Here’s how to fix it.
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