MS Word
How to Create Separate Sub-Documents from an Existing MS Word 2010 Document
© 2011 Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a MS Word 2010 document that you’d like to split into multiple sub-documents, with each new document containing a separate part of the original document’s content. This is how you do it: 1) Open the Word document you want split into sub-documents: (Click images to enlarge them) 2)…
Read MoreHow to Combine Multiple MS Word 2007 or 2010 Documents in a Master Document
© Ugur Akinci Follow these steps to combine multiple MS Word 2007 or 2010 documents into a single document. General steps: 1) Create your individual documents by using as much the same paragraph styles as possible. If they are already created, make sure they share the same paragraph styles as much as possible. This step…
Read MoreHow to Describe a Step-by-Step Process Visually in MS Word 2010
© 2011 Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 has these beautiful SMART ART drag-and-drop dynamic images that you can use to express many complex ideas like a step-by-step procedure, for example. There are almost infinite ways to do this but here’s a try: (1) Launch your MS Word 2010. Select the Insert tab on your MS…
Read MoreHow to Insert a MS Word Table into MS PowerPoint Slide
I love copying and pasting as much as the copy-paster next door 🙂 But sometimes the results are, well… let’s say, “less than acceptable.” Problem For example, when you’re trying to insert a MS Word table into a MS PowerPoint slide, the good’old copy-and-paste trick just won’t work. Here is our Word table: Select the…
Read MoreHow to Display MS Word 2007 Ribbon When It Disappears
© Ugur Akinci It happens… sometimes when you’re in the midst of a project, your MS Word 2007 ribbon just disappears… Not displaying your ribbon has its advantage: it increases your screen real-estate. You’d have more room to display your document. But in terms of functionality and ease of use, it’s a nasty inconvenience. Each…
Read MoreHow to Continue an MS Word Numbered List Across Many Text Blocks
Imagine you have a MS Word numbered list in MS Word that continues across different text blocks. Word’s “natural reflex” is to start each list block from 1 even though you may want the step numbers continue as a single series. For example: (Click to enlarge image) You can try doing the logical thing by…
Read MoreHow to Create and Update a MS Word Chart
Here is a good way to create a MS Word chart that you may need to edit at some point in the future. The KEY IDEA is this: create your chart in MS Excel and then copy-paste it into your Word document. That way, the chart will maintain a link to the Excel document. Anytime…
Read MoreHow to Select Text by Paragraph Style in MS Word 2010
© Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 has a great select-by-paragraph-style feature that can save you a lot of headaches when you need to make global changes in a hurry. Imagine you have a document with 100 chapter headings and your manager asks you to change their font size. You know that if you could select…
Read MoreHow to Insert a MS Word Book Citation into Your Technical Document
An MS Word book citation is a citation that is used to show where you found the information in your document. It is a must especially for academic books and papers where accountability and transparency is important for the author’s reputation. How Important is a Book Citation? A book citation is important because it shows…
Read MoreHow to View Two MS Word 2007 Documents Side by Side
© 2011 Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a legal document and its slightly altered version and you’d like to see both versions side by side and compare them by scrolling both of them simultaneously. Or, imagine a friend of your has sent a translated document and asked you to read and make a comparison to…
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