Ivan shows you several ways you can reduce a bloated Word file and make it more manageable.
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Tired of typing? You can now dictate your text into MS Word.
The new Dictation feature lets you use speech-to-text to write content in Office.
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Want to download that annoying extra piece of text at the end of a page. Steps: At the lower far right of the table, click the + shaped icon. Use this to drag the table upwards, just a little. You can use this to shrink the table and get everything on the same page. You […]
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Let’s say you have a table that you want to convert back into text. How do you do it? I write technical documents for a living. Part of my work is extracting text from excel files and other documents where technical information is located. Sometimes this is text inside tables that I need to get […]
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Looking for proofing tools for MS Office? Need better grammar checker, thesaurus, or hyphenation tools for your documents?
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What’s the best way to select text in Microsoft Word? There’s different ways you can do this depending on what you want to select.
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Purists may not approve of the quality of its code, but Microsoft Word lets you save your documents into HTML and, for the most part, the end result is fine. If you want to convert your document into HTML you can choose from three different options, each of which has its own advantages. To get […]
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Having problems exporting MS Word documents with images to PDF? There are several reasons why this can occur. Let’s look at different settings you can use to fix this and get a better PDF. Convert to PDF Options in Word First, there are three ways in Word to convert a document to PDF: Click File, […]
If you want to add space between items in a numbered list, but don’t want to turn off the numbering, follow this checklist. Creating Space Between List Items Create a new document. Click the Numbering button on the Formatting toolbar to start an automatic numbered list. Type First Item and press Enter. Type Second Item […]
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Skimmers are likely to spend 20 seconds or less skimming a document to decide whether or not to read it more carefully. Skim your document for 20 seconds, and mark what stands out most to you in that amount of time. After you are finished, see if what you have marked is able to convey […]