MS Word
MS Word: How to Prevent a Table Row Breaking Across a Document Page
© Ugur Akinci PROBLEM: Have you ever faced the following MS Word problem — table row breaking ugly across a page because it has too much content to fit into one page? SOLUTION: Select the row or rows that bother you. Right click and select Table Properties to display: UNCHECK the “Allow row to…
Read MoreHow to Skip Paragraph Numbering in MS Word
To learn how to skip paragraph numbering in MS Word can save you a lot of time and effort when writing a document. Imagine you have a list of paragraphs numbered consecutively. What if you’d like to remove numbering only from paragraphs TWO and FOUR but continue by rearranging the numbers of the other paragraphs? Easy. Place…
Read MoreMS Word VBA — How to Write Macros, Procedures, Functions
© Ugur Akinci Very simply put, you can use MS Word VBA to write macros, which are nothing but automated action steps running one after the other at the click of your mouse or when you select the macro from the menu bar. Macros save us time. Instead of selecting three or four items in…
Read MoreHow to Change Line Number Font in MS Word 2007 and 2010
© Ugur Akinci On the ribbon, select Home tab. In the Styles group, click the lower-right arrow and display the Styles list. Find the Line Number style. Right-click and select Modify to display the Modify Style dialog box. From the Formatting drop-down list, select any Font you like for line number. Click OK. NOTE: If you…
Read MoreDocument Navigation Sidebar in MS Word
MS Word has a feature that I love to use and some writers seem to be unaware of. Word has a really great DOCUMENT NAVIGATION SIDEBAR with which you can directly go to any part of your document that starts with one of the standard Heading paragraph styles. It’s basically a list of ANCHOR POINTS listed…
Read MoreHow to Create a Reusable Snippet in a SmartDocs MS Word Technical Document
A reusable snippet in SmartDocs is any reusable block of text and media. Think of a snippet as a “library item” that you can use any time you like by inserting it at where your cursor is. When you have a text saved as a snippet you do not have to write it anymore. It saves time and energy and…
Read MoreEmbedding vs. Linking an Object in a MS Word Document
© Ugur Akinci You can insert objects into a MS Word document in two ways: By embedding them, and by Linking them. If you embed an object, when the source object is changed, the Word object will NOT change. If you link an object, when the source object is changed, the Word object WILL change.…
Read MoreHow to Edit and Manage the Custom Dictionary in a MS Word 2010 Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 offers two kinds of dictionaries: 1) The standard default dictionary that gets installed with the MS Office, and 2) the CUSTOM dictionary. Any words that are not in the standard dictionary can be added to the custom dictionary. What’s more, you can create more than one custom dictionaries. For example, for all your medical spreadsheets, you can…
Read MoreHow to Locate and Display AutoCorrect Options in MS Word
AutoCorrect options are not displayed by default on MS Word ribbon. And when you search for them, they’re not intuitively easy to find either. Here’s how to locate and display the AutoCorrect options and add a link to your QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR for easy future access: 1) Click File > Options to display the Word Options screen. 2) Click and…
Read MoreHow to Express Opposing Forces Visually in a Word Technical Document
“Opposing Forces” is a fairly common idea both in life and in technical communication. Hope and Fear oppose each other. They may overlap to a certain extent but their effect is very different. In the technical field, assuring backward compatibility and keeping the code length to a minimum, for example, cannot be done at the…
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