How to Apply Multilevel Numbering to MS Word Tables
© Ugur Akinci Imagine you have the following document: You would like to insert TABLES to this text but number them starting with the multilevel number of the section they are in. For example, you want the tables placed in section number “2” as “Table 2-a”, “Table 2-b”, “Table 2-c” and not simply as…
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© Ugur Akinci Some documents like software or legal documents require multilevel numbering of headings that look like the following: Imagine you have a Word document like the following: To attach a multilevel number to each heading, first make sure all your headings are assigned one of the heading styles in the style set you…
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How to Manage Signal Versus Noise in Technical Documents
Introduction Signal versus noise is an interesting and important issue in technical communication. Here is an uncomfortable fact of technical document management: as much as we’d like to base our decisions on hard evidence and numbers, we still make a number of judgment calls that rest on nothing more than a seat-of-the-pants “this feels okay,”…
Read MoreHow to Line Up Numbers on Decimal Points in Excel
© Ugur Akinci Did you have a column of numbers in MS Excel that looked ugly like this: You can have a really nice looking column of numbers by centering them on the DECIMAL POINT — even if some of them do not have a decimal point. The first thing to do is to define…
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