MS Word
What to Do if Your MS Word Refuses to Delete Selected Text Blocks?
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Have you faced this MS Word problem at all? PROBLEM: You select a block of text and hit the DELETE key and… nothing happens!? If you look carefully at your status bar, there is a nagging question waiting for your action: “Delete Block? (No/Yes)” MS Word completes the deletion only after…
Read MoreHow to Copy and Paste Images and PDFs from Hard Disk to MS Word
Imagine you have a list of PDF documents or images that you’d like to copy and paste directly into a Microsoft Word document. That’s very easy to do. Open your Windows Explorer and browse to the directory where the files you want to copy are saved. NOTE: Make sure you are viewing at the “Details”…
Read MoreHow to Reduce Microsoft Word File Size
Introduction As a content writer, the file size may become an issue when you are uploading your MS Word files to a cloud storage account or attaching it to an email. File sizes in general can quickly become overwhelming if they are too large. For example, a 4 MB PowerPoint presentation will take roughly two…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – Advantages of Using Microsoft SourceSafe While Writing Your Technical Documents
© Ugur Akinci Just like with most things in life, control is an important aspect of technical documentation. Control is even more important if you are working in an office as a part of a writing team. First, you need to make sure that your files are not lost. That’s basic. And then you need…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – How to Easily Find Differences Between Two MS Word Documents
Here is a task that a lot of technical writers have been confronted with in the past: 1. You have two documents, with slight differences between them. This happens, for example, when someone has edited a text but did not save any editing marks with the document. Or you might be handed two different versions…
Read MoreWhich Text Editor to Use for Technical Writing – Adobe FrameMaker or Microsoft Word?
© 2008-2010 Ugur Akinci Technical writers have been asking this question to themselves for the good part of the last 15 years. The short answer is this – if you’re writing a short memo, letter, or a short document, MS Word would be just fine. No problem. I use MS Word in that fashion all…
Read MoreHow to Create a New MS Word Document Automatically With a Specific Template?
© 2009 Ugur Akinci MS word is a powerful word processor that you can use with a lot of different templates. If you do nothing and create a new document, Word will use its default Normal.dot template to create a 8.5″ by 11″ page. But let’s say you are generating a lot of 6″x9″ documents…
Read MoreMS Word – How to Draw a Target Diagram – Step-by-Step Instructions
Introduction A target diagram is used to visually represent the hierarchical relationship between a set of targets. It is a set of concentric circles, each circle representing a subset of the outer circle. It is like a flowchart that describes more specific concepts or objects as you go from the outer circle to the inner…
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How to Compare and Combine 2 Word Documents
Introduction Did you know that you can compare and combine Word documents and merge them nicely, creating a single document out of them? What’s more, MS Word also gives you full manual control about the changes. You can accept or reject each change individually since they are all listed as red text balloons on the…
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MS Word – How to Create a Pyramid Diagram on the Fly
Introduction A pyramid diagram is a graphic that shows the hierarchy of different levels in an organization like “employee,” “manager,” and “executive,” all arranged in decreasing slices on top of one another, starting with employees at the bottom, working up to managers and executives at the top. Pyramid diagrams are excellent to show the hierarchical…
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