WordTips Ribbon 2018 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2018 Archive includes hundreds of valuable tips. The following is the Table of Contents for the archive:

Introduction

• What's in This E-Book?
• Need More Tips?
• A Special Note of Thanks
• Sharing this Document

General Tips

• Word's Native Measurement Unit
• Understanding ASCII and ANSI Characters
• Why Should I Upgrade?
• Getting Audible Feedback
• Leaving Minimized Documents Minimized
• Embedding Your Phone Number in a Document
• Multiple Taskbar Icons for Documents
• Modifying Behavior of the Open Dialog Box
• Accessing the Source of a Document Link
• Horizontally Viewing All Your Text
• Avoiding the Update Links Message
• Changing the Ribbon Font Size
• Turning Off Display of the Office Clipboard
• Making the Show/Hide Setting Persistent
• Displaying the File Tab of the Ribbon by Default
• Understanding the Normalize Text Command

Editing Tips

• Shortcut Key to Delete a Paragraph
• Moving Text Using the Mouse
• Selecting the Entire Document with the Mouse
• Editing a Document with Many Pages
• Overcoming Automatic Word Selection
• Using the Insert Key to Insert Text
• Entering a Degree Sign
• Shortcut for Em and En Spaces
• Placeholders for Stamps
• Tracked Changes Notification when Opening
• Pasting Text in a Specific Language
• Checking for a List of Phrases in a Document
• How Word Handles Abbreviations
• Pasted Text Looks Like Hollow Squares
• Adding Serial Commas in a Sentence
• Lines Breaking between Double Spaces
• Making Highlighting Disappear when Typing
• Replacing the Last Comma

Searching Tips

• Making Ctrl+F Work Traditionally
• Finding Text Not Using a Particular Font
• Searching for Footnote and Endnote Marks
• Searching for Non-Black Text
• Finding Text Using a Specific Highlighting Color
• Highlighting Found Text
• Replacing without Automatically Finding
• Copying Found Items to a New Document
• Using Search Text in the Replacement
• Putting Shift+F4 On the Quick Access Toolbar
• Finding Text Boxes
• Removing HTML Tags from Text
• Finding Quoted Text in VBA
• Replacing the Space between the Last Two Words of Each Paragraph

Markup Tips

• Using Track Changes
• Changing Text in a Comment
• Using Multiple References to a Single Comment
• Counting Changed Words
• Counting Words in Comments
• Default Font for Comments
• Deleting All Comments

Building Block Tips

• Printing a List of Building Blocks
• QuickWords in Word

Character Formatting Tips

• Understanding Monospace Fonts
• Italic Typing Doesn't Stay Italic
• Applying Bold Italics
• Letters Bunched Up at the Left of the Page
• Understanding Underlines
• Special Symbols Display Incorrectly
• Formatting Currency
• Automatic Numbers with Leading Zeroes
• Aligning Plus/Minus Symbols
• Formatting Fractions
• Changing Kerning
• Protecting Hidden Text

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Decreasing a Paragraph's Indent
• Adjusting Space Before
• Forcing a Page Break Before a Paragraph
• Breaking Lines in E-mail
• Converting Lists to Text
• Hanging Indent Shortcut
• Flush Left and Flush Right On the Same Line
• Continuing Your Numbering
• Counting Lists
• Reversing Type
• Adding a Drop Shadow to a Text Box
• Applying Consistent Shading to a Table
• Creating Sideheads
• Automatically Setting Right Leader Tabs

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Setting a Precise Custom Paper Size
• Adding a Break to Your Document
• Changing the Language Setting for All Document Text
• Adding a Background to Your Document
• Underlining Section References Automatically
• Rotating a Page of Text
• Changing the Starting Page Number

Styles and Templates Tips

• Defining Styles
• Unwanted Styles
• Turning Off Automatic Hyphenation for Parts of a Document
• Turning Off Smart Quotes for Specific Styles
• Understanding a Style's Priority
• Templates and Page Setup
• Updating Many Template References
• What Changes Did I Make In that Template?
• No Ribbon on New Documents

Tables Tips

• Resizing Your Table
• Nudging a Table
• Setting Consistent Column Widths in Multiple Tables
• Index Number for the Active Table
• Blank Page Printing after Table at End of Document
• Noting Table Rows Containing a Character
• Unwanted Numbering on Pasted Tables
• Formatting an ASCII Table with Spaces
• Finding Text at the End of a Table Cell
• Pulling Tables Back Into View
• How to Stop a Table Row from Splitting Over Two Pages
• Shading Table Rows

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Word Adds Extra Space before Footnote Marker
• Correctly Numbering Footnotes in a Chapter
• Footnotes within Footnotes
• Moving Text to a New Footnote
• Converting Individual Endnotes and Footnotes
• Creating Unnumbered Endnotes
• Changing the Way Endnotes Are Numbered
• Suppressing Endnotes

Header and Footer Tips

• Showing a Dynamic Number Range in a Header
• Quickly Formatting Footers in Documents with Many Sections

Fields and Forms Tips

• Special Characters in Fields
• Selecting a Field
• Automatic Page Numbers across Multiple Documents
• Auto-incrementing Form Fields
• Counting Fields in a Document
• Using Fields for Fractions
• Entering a "Slashed Zero" in Your Document
• Printing Index Field Codes
• Standard Text before a Sequence Number
• Differences between SEQ and LISTNUM Fields
• Adding a Dynamic Total in Your Document
• Inserting a Dynamic Word Count in Your Document
• Updating a Field in a Text Box
• Entering Calculations in a Form Field

Printing Tips

• Working With Multiple Printers
• Understanding Background Printing
• Printing a Draft of a Document
• Printing All Open Documents
• Printing Documents in a Folder
• Printing Non-Printing Characters
• Printing Color Separations with VBA
• Printing Document Properties
• Turning Off Printing of Document Properties
• Printing Custom Properties
• Printing via Macro without Messages
• Errors while Printing
• Printing Close to the Edge
• Printing in White
• Printing Just the Changes and Comments
• Always Printing Drawing Objects
• Printing a Bookmark List with Contents
• Beginning a Mail Merge
• Controlling Page Numbers in Mail-Merged Documents
• Controlling Date Formats in a Mail Merge
• Vertically Centering Labels
• Changing the Return Address Location
• Default Envelope Margins
• Printing Unwanted Blank Envelopes
• Maintaining Delivery Address Information for Envelopes

Graphics Tips

• Creating a Drawing Object
• Moving Images Behind Text
• Rotate a Graphic Using the Keyboard
• Understanding Fill Effects
• Filling A Drawing Object
• Inserting a Text Box
• Embedding an Excel Chart in a Word Document

Files Tips

• Understanding Background Saving
• Saving Documents Using the Same Filename
• Opening Multiple Recent Files at the Same Time
• Saving Documents as Read-Only by Default
• Some Documents Open Slower than Others
• Changing the Default Document Format
• Getting Rid of Hidden Text in Many Files
• Document Shows as 'In Use' by Another User
• Read-Only Documents without a Password
• Creating Multiple Blank Documents in One Step
• Leading Spaces in Document File Names
• Deleting the Open Document File
• Copying Custom Properties
• Controlling Names of Backup Files
• Opening a Backup File
• Importing a Text File and Inserting after a Bookmark
• Determining If the End of a Text File Has Been Reached
• Determining the Length of a Non-Document Text File
• Appending to a Non-Document Text File

Online and Other Programs Tips

• Editing a Hyperlink
• Checking for Valid Hyperlinks
• Pulling All Hyperlinks
• Hyperlinks Not Found
• Searching with a Different Search Engine
• Setting Web Fonts
• Converting a PDF File to a Word Document
• Inserting a Multi-Page PDF File in a Word Document

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Configuring Spell Check for Internet Addresses
• Incorrect Suggested Correction
• Fast Spelling Corrections
• Permanently Removing Blue Squiggly Underlines
• Changing Colors of Spelling and Grammar Underlines
• Correctly Repeated Words
• Expanding a Custom Dictionary
• Enforcing a Do-Not-Use Word List

Tools Tips

• Displaying Quick Document Statistics
• Insert a TOC without Upsetting Pagination
• Jumping Back to the TOC
• Ensuring Proper Page Numbers for a Table of Authorities
• Indexing Based on a Range of Letters
• Automatically Capitalizing Day Names
• Changing the Document Inspector's Comment Name
• Changing Document Links
• Turning Off Automatic Captioning
• Changing Outline Structure
• Moving Master and Subdocuments

Macros Tips

• Recording a Macro
• Writing a Macro from Scratch
• Defining a Shortcut for a Macro
• Declaring Variables
• Understanding Subroutines
• Understanding the For ... Next Structure
• Understanding the While...Wend Structure
• Inserting Text with a Macro
• Getting User Input in a Dialog Box
• Highlight Words from a Word List
• Copying a Range of Pages in a Macro
• Deriving an Absolute Value
• Adding Automatic Time Stamps
• Adding a Full-Width Line in a Macro
• Changing Lots of Title Properties
• Finding Long Sentences
• Extracting INCLUDEPICTURE File Names
• Automatically Inserting Brackets
• Changing What Is Pasted in a Dialog Box
• Adding Parentheses
• Occurrences of a Text String within a Document
• Aligning Paragraphs in a Macro
• Moving the Insertion Point in a Macro
• Getting the Names of Defined Bookmarks
• Determining the Length of a String
• Checking for a Text Selection Length
• Swapping Two Strings
• Determining the Current Directory
• Determining an ANSI Value
• Detecting an Open Dialog Box
• Determining the Day of the Year
• Resetting Character Formatting in a Macro
• Counting Words the Old Fashioned Way
• Running Macros Based on Keywords
• Controlling the Italic Text Attribute

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