How to Configure Line and Page Break Options for MS Word Documents
Click the lower-right corner of the Paragraph pod on the Home tab: This will display MS word’s Paragraph dialog box. Click and select the Line and Page Breaks tab for the following line and page break options: Select Widow/Orphan control check-box to prevent MS Word from splitting up a paragraph such that a single line ends up displayed at the top of…
Read MoreHow to Change the Page Orientation of a MS Word Document Page
© Ugur Akinci Let’s say you have a portrait-orientation MS Word document but you’d like to insert a LANDSCAPE orientation page in the middle of your document to accommodate a map or a wide table. Since MS Word does not support the “master pages” paradigm, you cannot just switch from a Portrait page template (master page) to a Landscape page…
Read MoreHow to Create a New Paragraph Style in MS Word 2007 and 2010 by Selecting Edited Text
© Ugur Akinci You can create a new paragraph style in MS Word 2007 and 2010 by selecting an edited paragraph and assigning its style as a new paragraph style. For example, let’s say you’d like to have all your examples display as indented text, with italicized fonts. Let’s say this is the paragraph we’d…
Read MoreHow to Extract Text or Numbers from Character Delimited Cell Content in MS Excel
© Ugur Akinci Character-delimited data is fairly common. Here is an example: 100&4657&23&495&103 or Apple$Pear$Orange$Cherry$Grapes Imagine having a MS Excel table with cells populated with such content. How would you separate the text or the numeric values and post them under their own separate columns? Here is an example of some imaginary data about SEASONAL…
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