MS Word
MS Word — How to Add Nonbreaking Space and Nonbreaking Hyphen
Does your MS Word text break off and continue on the next line at the wrong spot? If you’d like to keep two words that appear at the end of the first and the beginning of the second line together, insert a nonbreaking space or hyphen. Here is our sample text: How to Insert Nonbreaking…
Read MoreHow to Use MS Word’s Navigation Pane
MS Word comes with a great Navigation Pane that makes navigating around your document a breeze. The longer your document is, the more you’ll appreciate this productivity feature. 1) Launch your MS Word and open a file. 2) Select the VIEW tab. 3) Click the Navigation Pane check-box to display the Navigation Pane on the…
Read MoreHow to Split, View and Edit Two Different Parts of Your Word Document in the Same Window
© Ugur Akinci Imagine you have footnotes at the bottom of a long MS Word page that would not fit into a single screen. How would you work in the first paragraph of that page while viewing the footnotes at the same time? Or, in general: how would you view separate parts of your document…
Read MoreHow to Type Special Characters Easily with MS Word 2010 AutoCorrect Formulas
© 2010 Ugur Akinci When you are creating a MS Word 2010 document there is a hard way to type in special characters (like the Copyright icon) and an easy way. The hard way is to (a) use the Insert tag or to (b) type in the special Unicode of the character in question (if…
Read MoreHow to AutoRecover Your Unsaved Files in MS Word
© Ugur Akinci You can autorecover at least a part of your unsaved files if you lose power in the midst of a writing session or you close the file without saving it. There are two steps to the process. 1) Configure your Autosave setting: a) Select File > Options > Save from the menu…
Read MoreMultiple Undo and Redo Steps in MS Word
In MS Word, you can not only do multiple undos but actually select a bunch of them and do it all together in one click! Redo just repeats the last step. As you type and format text, Word keeps a record of all the major changes and lists them in the Undo drop-down list: (click…
Read MoreMS Word 2010 — How to Define Page Sizes for your Technical Documents
© 2010 Ugur Akinci With every year we’re leaving behind the concept of a traditional “book”. The topic-based DITA structured authoring, for example, has no use for any page size information. However, there are still millions of technical documents created in the form of a traditional book-shaped manual, or guide. With MS Word determining page…
Read MoreMS Word 2010 — How to Easily Capture and Edit an Image Artistically
Ugur Akinci MS Word has a powerful built-in image and screen-capture utility, tucked away under the INSERT tab. Follow these steps: (Click on images to enlarge them) 1. Select an image you’d like to capture (like a Web page) and display it in your browser/monitor. 2. Switch to MS Word. Open a new document. Select…
Read MoreMS Word 2010 — Great TABS for Increased Productivity
© 2010 Ugur Akinci MS Office is in a way like McDonald’s for me… They are both Great American Institutions. But that’s not all. They are also both the kind of icons that some people love to hate… However, show me someone who is trashing McDonald’s and I’ll show you one who has not been…
Read MoreMS Word 2010 – All the TEMPLATES you need and then some…
© Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 is a delight to use for so many reasons… It really is an improved product with many user-friendly features. One such feature is the rich gallery of free TEMPLATES that it comes with. When you want to create a new document and select File > New, Word immediately displays…
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