Resetting table cell margins and text alignment
Need to give the text in your table a little breathing room? I’ll show you how to customize the interior margins, both for the table as a whole and for individual cells.
The 4 Fastest Formatting Fixes I Know
Hands down, the biggest complaint I get is that Microsoft Word seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to formatting. People swear they did nothing more than breathe on their document, and things went completely wonky!Of course, without actually standing over their shoulder and watching them work, it’s really impossible for…
Creating new Styles in Microsoft Word
If none of the Quick Styles in Microsoft Word meet your needs, make one of your own! Here’s how.
Inserting a table of contents using styles
Building 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.
Using and configuring AutoFormat As You Type
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.
How to reconfigure AutoCorrect to NOT drive you crazy
Ever type “(c)” in Microsoft Word and somehow mysteriously get a copyright symbol? Here’s how to fix that.
Using and formatting columns in Microsoft Word
How to insert multiple columns into your Microsoft Word document, plus navigating between columns and starting-and-stopping columns mid-document.
Taming naughty footnotes, pt. 1
Have a footnote in Microsoft Word 2007 that keeps dropping down to a subsequent page? Here’s how to fix it.
Using Styles & Formatting
Got a brief or other long document? Ensure consistent formatting throughout with Microsoft Word’s Styles & Formatting feature.
Converting WordPerfect docs to Word
Having trouble converting your current WordPerfect documents into Word? Here are four ways to get your documents into the new format.
So, you miss Reveal Codes in WordPerfect?
Word has a nifty replacement for WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes feature. Find out about it here.
Indenting paragraphs
Whether 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.
Inserting symbols and special characters
That document you’re working on needs a paragraph symbol (or section symbol or something else not on your keyboard). Here’s how you insert those characters.
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