MS Word
How to Add Numbered Footnotes Easily to a Word Document
Here is a shortcut that will save you countless hours when entering Word footnotes if you are writing articles and books. This is a great shortcut to add numbered footnotes to your pages. Imagine you have a page like this: (Click all images to enlarge them) Let’s say you’d like to add a footnote to…
Read MoreHow to AutoRecover Unsaved Files in MS Word
To autorecover unsaved files in MS Word is a bit different than in MS Word 2010. It’s a bit more difficult, but not that difficult, really. Follow these steps: 1) Click the Office button and select Word Options to display the Word Options screen. Click Save from the left navigation bar. Make sure “Save Autorecover…
Read MoreHow to Find N-Character Words in a MS Word Document and Replace Them with Clipboard Content
@ Ugur Akinci PROBLEM: Imagine you’d like to replace the words “Press”, “Drive” and “Click” with “Activate” in a MS Word document with a single Find-and-Replace operation. You don’t want to perform a separate Find-and-Replace procedure for each word that you’d like to replace. Or worse, you know that the words you’d like to find…
Read MoreHow to Use MS Word Hidden Text to Create Two Versions of the Same Document
MS Word has a feature that is ideal to create two different versions of the same document. By using the “hidden text” feature, you can easily accomplish that task. CAUTION: MS Word documents created with the hidden text will NOT print the hidden text. So if you would like to have two PRINTED versions of…
Read MoreHow to Remove the Background of an Image in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 has a fantastic tool to remove the background of images without the need for Photoshop. Fire up your MS Word 2010. Create a Word document. Insert an image and follow these steps: 1) Select the image to dynamically display the Picture Tools tab: 2) Click the Format link to…
Read MoreHow to Restrict the Use of Paragraph Styles in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci Sometimes you may want to allow the use of only specific paragraph styles in a MS Word document. This would happen in an office situation with multiple technical and other types of writers when one writer might either knowingly or inadvertently override or modify the style choice of another writer. For example,…
Read MoreHow to Use the Research Task Bar of MS Word
Are you aware that MS Word comes with a very powerful research tool, built right into all documents? It is called the RESEARCH TASK BAR and it displays to the right of your document when you activate it. If you do not have the Research option displayed on your ribbon, you must add it to…
Read MoreHow to Insert a Screenshot or Image Properly in Between Two Steps in an Ordered MS Word List
© Ugur Akinci PROBLEM: You’d like to insert a screenshot or an image in between two consecutive steps in an ordered MS Word list WITHOUT automatically assigning a step number to the image itself. Here is what typically happens: Let’s assume you have the following ordered list: If you hit the ENTER key on your…
Read MoreHow to Configure the Comma Inside or Outside Quotation Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci There are two different ways in English to place a comma when used with quotation marks: inside or outside the quote. Here are two examples: INSIDE THE QUOTE: “We need a new server,” the admin said. OUTSIDE THE QUOTE: “We need a new server”, the admin said. After decades in this business,…
Read MoreHow to Hide or Display the Tab Characters, Spaces, and Paragraph Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document
© Ugur Akinci Sometimes you may want to display the Tab Characters, Spaces, and Paragraph Marks in a MS Word 2010 Document, or hide them. What’s more, you may want to show or hide in any combination, like you may want to show tab characters but hide spaces and paragraph marks, etc. This is how…
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