Posts Tagged ‘MS Word’

© Ugur Akinci Pull-out quotes are excellent to emphasize certain part of the document text. MS Word 2010 renders the insertion of pull-out quotes a breeze, thanks to the extremely versatile “Insert Text” function. Let’s say we have the following sample text:   Select and copy your pull-out text. For example: “This ebook focuses on how to write the…

© 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…

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…

© 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…

© 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…

How to Insert a Manual TOC is a skill that may come in handy with some documentation projects. Did you know that your heading text in a MS Word document and the TOC text (that points at that heading) do not need to be identical? There’ll be times when you may not want MS Word…

© Ugur Akinci You can add running headers (also called “running headings”) or running footers to a MS Word technical document so that the text of the selected heading style is automatically printed as a “header” or “footer” either at the top or bottom of every page. Such running headers are useful in identifying the section or chapter that…

A well designed and written index is an indispensable component of any technical document. As an indexer and technical author there might be occasions when you’d like to print a list of invisible TOC and index markers of a MS Word Technical Document which is a task that requires some experience. In this post we…