WordTips 2002 Archive

The WordTips 2002 archive includes hundreds of valuable tips.
The following is the Table of Contents for the archive:

Introduction

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

General Tips

• A Shortcut for Switching Focus
• Viewing Your Document Full-Screen
• Folder Locations for Add-Ins
• Viewing Document Statistics
• Getting Context-Sensitive Help
• Hiding and Displaying Hidden Text
• Displaying ScreenTips
• Page Layout Zoom Settings
• Selecting Tabs in Dialog Boxes
• Zooming With the Keyboard
• Getting Rid of Wizards and Templates
• Changing the Company Name
• Turning Off Background Repagination
• Understanding ASCII and ANSI Characters
• Understanding Unicode Characters
• Understanding Default DATE Field Formatting
• Understanding Default Insert Date Formatting
• Changing the Maximum Undo Levels
• Replacing Text Selections
• Setting User Information
• Displaying the Ruler
• Setting Your Default Document Directory
• Setting the AutoRecover Directory
• Controlling Display of the Status Bar
• Selecting a Language
• Turning On Property Information Prompting
• Getting Rid of the Startup Document
• Animated Menus
• Canceling a Menu
• Floating Menus
• Adding Your Own Menu Items
• Resetting Menus to Their Default
• Changing the Context (Shortcut) Menus
• Deleting Menu Items
• Displaying Toolbars
• Changing Toolbar Location
• Renaming a Toolbar
• Changing Toolbar Buttons
• Editing a Toolbar Button Image
• Quickly Removing a Toolbar Button
• Resetting Toolbars to Their Default
• Customizing a Toolbar
• Creating a New Toolbar
• Deleting a Toolbar
• Persistent Reviewing Toolbar Display
• Finding a Missing Toolbar

Editing Tips

• Compound Page Numbering
• Line Breaks After a Slash
• Displaying a Live Word Count
• Specific Capitalization
• Rejecting Changes In a Document
• Understanding the Big Three Autos in Word
• Changing AutoComplete Words
• Using AutoText and AutoCorrect Effectively
• Changing Many Link Locations
• Single-Character Fractions
• Replacing Quoted Text with Italics
• Using Overtype Mode
• Creating Traditional Forms
• Inserting Different Dashes
• Inserting a Non-Breaking Hyphen
• Inserting a Special Symbol
• Inserting the Date and Time
• Quickly Selecting Text
• Selecting a Sentence
• Selecting Sentences
• Selecting a Group of Words
• Selecting a Line of Text
• Selecting an Entire Paragraph
• Automatically Selecting Words
• Using the Object Browser
• Jumping to a Line Number
• Jumping to a Relative Line Number
• Jumping Between Columns
• Jumping to a Relative Page
• Jumping to a Section
• Jumping to a Relative Section
• Jumping Back in a Long Document
• Repeating Your Typing
• Repeating Actions
• Transposing Two Paragraphs
• Inserting the Current Month
• Understanding Frames and Text Boxes
• Quickly Moving Text With the Mouse
• Getting Rid of a Bunch of Frames
• Seeing Where Bookmarks Are
• Inserting Foreign Characters
• Navigating Your Document Using Outline View
• Understanding Smart Cut and Paste
• Slowing Down Mouse Selection
• Quickly Inserting the Date Your Way
• Putting a Bullet In the Middle of a Sentence
• Quickly Changing Document Windows
• Screen Flip Flop
• Automatic Non-breaking Spaces in Dates
• Reverse Numbered Lists
• Automatically Determining a Due Date
• Arranging Paragraphs
• Sharing Headings with Others
• Pasting Text with Track Changes
• Putting Character Codes to Work
• Navigating Your Document Using Outline View
• Changing Outline Heading Level

Formatting Tips

• Changing Page Margins
• Removing Breaks
• Moving Section Breaks
• Moving Breaks Quickly
• Changing Sections
• Copying Paragraph Formatting
• Copying Paragraph Formatting with the Mouse
• Adding Vertical Lines Between Columns
• Determining a Column Width
• Changing Column Width
• Changing the Number of Columns in the Middle of a Document
• Mixing Column Formats On a Page
• Using a Single-Column Heading in a Multi-Column Layout
• Put Your Space Before or After?
• Quickly Adjusting Paragraph Spacing
• Understanding Single Line Spacing
• Precisely Adjusting Tab Stops
• Changing Paragraph Borders
• Deleting Borders
• Indenting a Paragraph to the Next Tab Stop
• Understanding Decimal Tabs
• Understanding Default Tab Stops
• Removing Tabs Used to Indent a Paragraph
• Adding a Box Around Selected Text
• Accurate Font Sizes
• Quickly Increasing Point Size
• Quickly Changing Font Sizes
• Understanding Nonprinting Characters
• Quickly Displaying the Font Dialog Box
• Changing Character Color
• Using Shading to Highlight Information
• Using the Highlighter
• Turning Off Highlighter Display
• Changing the Highlighting Color
• Updating to Smart Quotes
• Controlling URL Formatting
• Changing the Height of a Font
• Adding Fonts To the Context Menu
• Hyperlink Formatting
• Formatting E-mail
• Formatting E-mail, Part II
• Numbering Equations
• Understanding Picas
• Consistent Spacing
• Removing Line Numbering
• Setting the Starting Line Number
• Positioning Line Numbers
• Understanding and Creating Lists
• Removing a List
• Understanding Underlines
• Changing Text Orientation
• Margin Notes in Word
• Precise Ruler Adjustments
• Creating a Numbered List
• Inserting Signature Lines
• Using a Macro to Change the Formatting of All Instances of a Word
• Copying Formats
• Formatting Text Files
• Formatting Currency
• Rotating a Page of Text
• Removing the Box from a Text Box
• Automatically Formatting an ASCII File

Styles and Templates Tips

• Understanding Styles
• Changing Styles
• Continually Saving Normal.dot
• Opening a Template
• Determining Which Template is Attached to a Document

Headers and Footers Tips

• Positioning Headers and Footers
• Pulling Headers and Footers from Other Files
• Odd & Even Headers and Footers
• Suppressing Headers or Footers
• Deleting All Headers and Footers
• Protecting Headers and Footers
• Formatting Page Numbers

Footnotes and Comments Tips

• Understanding Footnotes and Endnotes
• Inserting Footnotes
• Inserting Endnotes
• Deleting Footnotes and Endnotes
• Putting Endnotes in Their Proper Place
• Where Do You Want Your Endnotes?
• Formatting Footnote and Endnote References
• Automatically Adding Tabs in Footnotes
• Viewing Footnotes
• Jumping to a Footnote
• Using Multiple References to a Single Comment
• Comments In Text Boxes
• Copying, Moving and Deleting Comments

Forms Tips

• Entering Many Items In a Drop-Down Form Field
• AutoFormat Within Form Fields
• Protecting Parts of a Document
• Safely Relocking Forms

Tables Tips

• Selecting a Table
• Drawing a Table
• Centering a Table
• Drop Shadows for Tables
• Creating a Split Page
• Freezing a Table
• Suppressing a Zero In a Calculated Sum
• Working with Table Columns and Rows
• Selecting a Column or Row in a Table
• Moving Table Rows Quickly
• Converting a Table Into Text
• Splitting a Table
• Adjusting Column Widths On Joined Tables
• Moving Rows and Columns With the Mouse
• Copying Rows and Columns With the Mouse
• Viewing Formulas in Table Cells
• Adjusting Table Row Height
• Footnotes for Tables
• Keep Your Headings in View
• Distributing Columns Evenly
• Creating Tables with Specific Column Widths
• Spacing Table Rows Vertically
• Deleting Cells
• Moving a Table Row
• Moving a Table Column
• Quickly Inserting Table Rows
• Changing Table Cell Text Direction
• Inserting Cells in a Table

Fields Tips

• Unwanted Page Breaks in Cross-References
• Age Calculation with Fields
• Using the GotoButton Field
• Finding Fields
• A Quick-and-Dirty Word Count
• Understanding DATE Field Formatting
• Inserting the Document Creation Date
• Inserting the Date Your Document Was Last Saved
• Inserting Today's Date
• Inserting the Author Name
• Inserting the Template Name in Your Document
• Inserting the User's Name
• Inserting the User's Initials
• Inserting the User's Address
• Inserting the Edit Time
• Conditional Calculations in Word
• Copying Form Field Contents
• Security Flaw in Word Traced to Fields
• Stopping Automatic Changes from Being Tracked
• Maintaining Fields in a Merged Document
• Date Last Edited
• Inserting the Total Number of Pages in Your Document

Searching Tips

• Initiating a New Search
• Keyboard Control of the Find and Replace Dialog Box
• Find and Replace in a Column or Row
• Finding an Unknown Character
• Finding the Previous Occurrence
• Searching for ASCII and ANSI Characters
• Searching for Borders
• Searching for a Specific Field
• Searching for Text that Does Not Have a Certain Format
• Searching for Breaks
• Searching for Tabs
• Searching for Special Hyphens
• When Replace Doesn't Work
• Understanding Pattern Matching
• Searching for Characters
• Special Characters in Pattern Matching
• Specifying a Number of Matches
• Matching At the Beginning or End of a Word
• Ordering Search and Replace

Printing Tips

• Upside-Down Text with PostScript
• Printing Very Large Paper Sizes
• Small Printing with Different Word Versions
• Printing Multiple Label Copies When Merging
• Using Crop Marks with a PostScript Printer
• Controlling the Printing of Highlighting
• Sending Printer Commands
• Printing Portions of Mail Merged Documents
• Printing Multiple Envelopes
• Printing More Than One Copy
• Printing Shortcut Key Assignments
• Canceling Printing
• Printing Color Separations
• Printing AutoText Entries
• Printing Summary Information
• Controlling Where a Full-page Border is Printed
• Specifying a Paper Tray in a Macro
• Setting Up Your Printer
• Printing Odd or Even Pages
• Using Unique Document Serial Numbers
• Using Sequential Document Serial Numbers
• Printing Hidden Text

Graphics Tips

• Adding WordArt Libraries
• Default Picture Location
• No-border Text Boxes by Default
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
• Stopping Text From Jumping Around
• Pictures Move on their Own
• Including Text Box Text In Word Counts
• Working With OLE Graphics
• Selecting a Graphic that is Behind Text
• Using Callouts
• Rotating a Drawing Object
• Searching for Floating Graphics
• Fixing the Big Red X

Files Tips

• Saving and Closing Multiple Files
• Changing the Default File Name
• Read-Only Files
• Read-Only Documents Without a Password
• Renaming a Document
• Saving Portions of Files
• Opening a Backup File
• Combining Documents
• Inserting a File
• Embedding Fonts In a Document
• Listing Documents with Passwords
• Reducing Document File Size
• Opening the Document Map by Default
• Periodically Delete TMP Files
• Working with E-mail Documents
• Saving Your Work Automatically
• A Real AutoSave
• Marking Multiple Documents
• MS-DOS with Line Breaks Format in Word 2002
• Document Shows as "In Use" by Another User
• Dates Updating when Converting
• An Automatic File Name
• Making Backup Copies
• Specifying a Backup Location
• Modifying the Backup Copy File Name
• Positioning the Cursor in a New Document
• Automatically Saving Document Copies on A:
• Viewing Files of a Certain Type
• The Case of the Disappearing MRU File List
• Converting From Older Works Format
• Changing the View in File New
• Saving Document Versions
• Reviewing Document Versions
• Setting a Default Document Format
• Saving Information in a Non-Document Text File
• Getting Input from a Text File

Online Tips

• Creating Hyperlinks from E-mail Addresses
• Hyperlinks Not Found

Tools Tips

• Spell Checking Your Document
• Spell-Checking From the Keyboard
• Forgetful Spellchecking
• Setting Spell-Checking Options
• Turning Off Spell Checking
• Updating the Spelling Exclusion List Automatically
• Context Menus, Spell Checking, and Common Tasks
• Ignoring the Spelling of Proper Nouns
• Separating Grammar-Checking from Spell-Checking
• Setting Grammar-Checking Options
• Changing Between English Variants
• Changing to UK English
• Finding Related Words
• Looking Up Antonyms
• When to Hyphenate Your Document
• Ignoring Hyphens in Word Counts
• Only Showing Readability Statistics
• Curving Text Around the Edge of a CD
• Handling Long Lines In Address Labels
• Page Ranges in a TOC
• Locking Lines in a TOC
• Generating a TOC that Includes Text Boxes
• Select All Changes By a Particular Reviewer
• Creating Custom AutoText Categories
• Editing an AutoText Entry
• Importing AutoCorrect Entries
• Managing the AutoCorrect List
• Using AutoComplete Tips
• Removing All Bookmarks
• Printing a Bookmark List
• Sorting Single-Column Addresses
• Changing Orientation of a Text Box
• Vertical Lines in Word
• Removing Return Addresses
• The Default Picture Editor
• Automatic Scrolling
• Resizing a Text Box or Frame
• Getting Rid of Mail Merge Section Breaks
• Odd Sorting
• Adding Sidebars
• Inserting a Voice Annotation in Your Document
• Inserting a Sound File in Your Document
• Improper Index Page Numbers
• Changing an AutoShape
• Comparing Document Versions
• Increasing Envelope Address Lines
• Specifying Sub-entries in an AutoMark File
• Understanding Master and Subdocuments
• Creating a Master Document Using Existing Subdocuments
• Moving Master and Subdocuments
• Removing a Subdocument From a Master Document
• Printing Multiple Envelopes
• Pop-up Windows in Word
• Getting Rid of Blank Labels in a Filtered Merge

Macros Tips

• Word's Object Model
• Making Macros Run Faster
• Making Macros Run Faster, Take Two
• Automatically Running a Macro
• Suppressing the Control Toolbox Toolbar
• Setting a VBA Variable From a Bookmark
• Problem With Add-on Macros
• How to Paste Non-Floating Pictures with a Macro
• Determining if a Text Selection Has Been Made
• Using Message Boxes
• Dissecting a String
• Comparing Strings
• Converting Text to Uppercase in a Macro
• Bypassing the Startup Macro
• Determining If a Number is Odd or Even
• Determining if Num Lock is On
• Removing All Text Boxes In a Document
• Repaginating Your Document in a Macro
• Printing a List of AutoCorrect Entries
• Controlling Repagination in Macros
• Toggling AutoCorrect Settings
• Running Word Counts

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