Like cats, MS Word likes to hide things in secret places. For example, those styles you know were there but have now gone missing. Where did she put them? Who knows why, such is her charm. As a small child growing up some people called Word Tips and Tricks a bit of a dog. We […]
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Jun
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As a small child, Word Tips and Tricks was used to people ignoring him. For years he thought he was invisible. A cursed soul doomed to walk shopping malls never getting a glance from others. Even the dogs didn’t bark at him. Maybe your Word docs feel the same. Ignored. Abandoned. The ugly duckling of […]
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Ah yes, that crazy Euro currency (€) symbol. You’d think it would be on your keyboard, especially if you bought it in Europe, wouldn’t you? Anyway, it’s not, is it? So, just how to do you add it to your Word doc? Is there some mystical keyword combination that’ll add the Euro currency (€) symbol […]
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Jun
Jun
Yes, friend, you’d think it would be easy wouldn’t you. All you want to do is start page numbering form 1 on a different page in MS Word. How to Start Page Numbering From 1 on a Different Page in Microsoft Word Open your document and place your cursor at the end of the page BEFORE […]
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Jun
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Too lazy to read? Scroll down and watch the video, ya young whelp. Hey! Stop before you create that PDF! When Word Tips and Tricks was a small child it created a PDF without removing important things in the file properties. Things grandma didn’t want published on the interweb. Alas, WTT didn’t know and got […]
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Jan
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If you want to open a file with the .pages extension in MS Word: Save the file on your Windows computer. Right-click on the file and select Rename. Remove the .pages extension and enter .zip as the file extension. Open the Zip file. This will show you several files. .pages files are a compressed collection […]
On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click Design Mode, and then insert the controls that you want, for example, let’s enter a series of rich text controls for a report. How to insert a text control where users can enter text In a rich text content control, users can format text as bold […]
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Building blocks are reusable pieces of content or other document parts that are stored in galleries to be accessed and reused at any time. You can also save building blocks and distribute them with templates. For example, you may create a report template that provides your template users with two cover letter types to choose […]
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Whether you’re starting from a built-in template or updating one of your own, Word’s built-in tools help you update templates to suit your needs. To update your template, open the file, make the changes you want, and then save the template. Click File, Open. Double-click Computer. Browse to the Custom Office Templates folder that’s under […]