Posts Tagged ‘MS Word’
MS Word 2010 – All the TEMPLATES you need and then some…
© Ugur Akinci MS Word 2010 is a delight to use for so many reasons… It really is an improved product with many user-friendly features. One such feature is the rich gallery of free TEMPLATES that it comes with. When you want to create a new document and select File > New, Word immediately displays…
Read MoreWhat 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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