WordTips 2005 Archive

The WordTips 2005 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

• Understanding Views
• Working with Document Panes
• Splitting the Window
• Removing a Split Window
• Controlling Scroll Bars
• Getting Help in Dialog Boxes
• Hour Glass Bogging Down Word
• Colors Only Show when Printing
• Stopping Smart Tags from Being Saved
• Hiding Smart Tags
• Automatically Saving Changes to Defaults
• Changing Color of the Insertion Point
• Fonts Don't Work in Word on New System
• Shortcut for Full-Screen Mode
• Strange Shift Key Behavior
• Embedding Your Phone Number in a Document
• Status Bar Icons
• Canceling a Command
• Finding Default Shortcut Keys
• Meaningless Text
• Removing Errant Buttons
• Deleting Menu Items
• Turning Off Dynamic Menus
• Displaying the Outlining Toolbar by Default
• How to Turn Add-in Toolbar off by Default
• Hiding the Reviewing Toolbar
• The Case of the Vanished Menu Bar
• Concise Directory of Available Symbols
• Word Abnormally Ends when Maximizing Program Window
• Using Your Own File Extensions
• Changing Stubborn Ruler Measurements
• Stubborn Foreign Languages
• Changing Bookmark Colors
• Backing Up Your AutoCorrect Entries
• Backing Up Your Custom Dictionaries
• Increasing the Size of the Draft Font
• Retrieving Built-in Commands
• Minimized Word Window
• Changing Measurement Units
• Calculating Expressions
• Controlling Document Properties
• Changing the Startup Directory

Editing Tips

• Understanding the At and Ln Indicators
• Controlling Overtype Mode
• Easily Extending Selections
• Viewing Your Spaces
• Inserting a Section Mark
• Inserting a Copyright Mark
• Error when Pasting Into Document
• Using Go To With a Percentage
• Sequentially Numbered Labels
• Picking Up in the Last Document Edited
• Deleting All Text in Linked Text Boxes
• Viewing More of the Left Margin Area
• Entering a Page Break from the Keyboard
• Ensuring Consistent References with AutoText
• Adding Quotes
• Inserting a Non-Breaking Space
• Strip Trailing Spaces
• Using the Spike to Edit
• Editing While Spell-Checking
• Using Document Properties to Ensure Consistent References
• Deleting a Page
• Using the Insert Key to Insert Text
• Moving Text Using the Mouse
• Selecting the Entire Document with the Mouse
• Adding Tabs at the Beginning of a Line
• Talking to Yourself
• Using Extend Mode
• Automatically Changing Dates
• System Won't Save AutoText
• Using AutoText
• Adding an AutoText Entry
• Deleting an AutoText Entry
• Backing Up Your AutoText Entries
• Understanding and Using Bookmarks
• Deleting a Bookmark
• Protecting Bookmarks

Formatting Tips

• Understanding Paragraph Alignment
• Exactly Positioning Text
• Creating a Hanging Indent
• Setting a Negative Paragraph Indent
• Centering a Paragraph with the Keyboard
• Keeping Paragraphs on the Same Page
• Preventing Straggling Heads
• Adjusting Spacing after a Paragraph
• Triple-Spacing Your Document
• Keep with Previous
• Understanding At Least Line Spacing
• Indenting a Paragraph
• Controlling Automatic Indenting
• Paragraph Formatting Shortcuts
• Understanding Leading
• Double-Spacing Your Document
• Getting Rid of Choppiness in Justified Text
• Resetting Default Character Formatting
• Forcing a Page Break before a Paragraph
• Making Text Bold
• Understanding Font Styles
• Understanding Strikethrough Formatting
• Applying the All Caps Format
• Adjusting Small Caps Text
• Engraving Text
• Changing Kerning
• Changing Font Size Using a Shortcut Key
• AutoFormatting a Document
• Changing AutoFormatting Rules
• Hanging Indents in Wrapped Text
• Starting a New Section on an Odd Page Number
• Using Chapter Numbers with Page Numbers
• Turning Off Default First Page Numbering
• Changing the Starting Page Number
• Losing All Formatting in a Document
• Changing Default Tab Stops
• Clearing All Tab Stops
• Clearing All Tabs in a Document
• Deleting Tab Stops
• Using Leaders with Tab Stops
• Quickly Displaying the Tabs Dialog Box
• Flush Left and Flush Right On the Same Line
• Consistent Formatting Between Word Versions
• Resetting to Factory Defaults for Bulleted Lists
• Detailed Measurements
• Expanding Colors Available for Highlighting
• Stubborn Highlighting
• MLA Tools for Word
• Getting Rid of Section Breaks, But Not Section Formatting
• Smushing Text Together
• Setting the Distance between Text and Borders
• Automatically Formatting Text within Quotes
• Fonts in the Font Drop-Down List
• Font Substitution Problems
• Changing Text Case
• Intelligent Title Case
• Format Painter Shortcut
• Adding Columns to Your Page Layout
• Changing the Number of Columns
• Self-Adjusting Column Widths
• Columns within Text Boxes
• Removing Extra Paragraph Marks
• Quickly Formatting Multiple Documents
• Creating Point Pages
• Using Text as a Page Border
• Problems Using Words as Bullets
• Absolutely Getting Rid of Formatting
• Quickly Displaying Formatting Specs
• Working with Other People's Files
• Automatically Using Smart Quotes
• Eliminating "Before Spacing" at the Top of a Page
• Using the Style Area
• Breaking Your Text
• Compound List Formatting
• Extra Shaded Lines
• Resetting Paragraph Formatting
• Setting Tab Stops Using Menus
• Controlling Widows and Orphans
• Highlighting Information Using Shading
• Aligning Plus/Minus Symbols
• Understanding Mirror Margins
• Using Non-Printing Notes
• Changing the Types of Numbers in a Numbered List
• Cut and Paste Formatting

Styles and Templates Tips

• Renaming a Style
• Developing Style Families
• Quickly Copying Styles
• Intelligently Starting a New Paragraph
• Turning Off a Dictionary for a Style
• Finding Unused Styles
• Duplicating Styles without Dependency
• Unwanted Styles
• Protecting Styles
• Stepping Through Head Formats
• Printing a List of Custom Styles
• Inserting a Cross-Reference to the First Style on a Page
• Preserving Style Formatting in a Merge
• Printing a Style Sheet
• Preventing Changes to Styles in Documents
• Editing a Template
• How Word Treats Normal.dot
• Fixing Persistent Template Corruption
• Getting Rid of Persistent Templates
• Recovering Macros and AutoText Entries from Normal.dot
• Working on Shared Templates

Footnotes and Comments Tips

• Inserting Footnotes Using Custom Footnote Marks
• Center-column Footnotes
• Footnotes within Footnotes
• Heavy-Duty Footnotes
• Using Cross-References in Footnotes
• Reference to a Range of Endnotes
• Creating Unnumbered Endnotes
• Changing the Comment Color

Forms Tips

• Understanding Forms
• Working with Form Fields
• Saving and Using a Form
• Saving Form Data for a Database
• Using Mandatory Form Fields
• Entering Calculations in a Form Field
• Calculating Form Fields
• Updating Calculated Fields in a Form
• Field Calculations in Locked Forms

Header and Footer Tips

• Changing Headers and Footers
• Copying Headers and Footers
• Basing Headers and Footers on the Previous Section
• Deleting a Header or Footer
• Using Last-page Headers and Footers
• Headers and Footers in Subdocuments
• AutoText Unavailable in Headers and Footers
• Inserting the Date in a Header or Footer
• Floating Footer
• Form Fields in Headers and Footers
• Quickly Formatting Footers in Documents with Many Sections
• Paragraph Numbers in Headers or Footers
• Putting Document Names in Headers or Footers
• Adding Page Numbers
• Adding Page Numbers in Headers or Footers

Tables Tips

• Converting Text into a Table
• Keeping Tables on One Page
• Clearing the Contents of a Table
• Entering Tabs in a Table
• Last-Row Border Formatting
• Picking a Contiguous Range of Table Cells
• Validating Data
• Tables within Tables
• Filling Table Cells with a Macro
• Using Outline Numbering in a Table
• Repeating Table Rows with Manual Page Breaks
• Repeating the First Column of a Table
• Aligning Positive and Negative Whole Numbers in a Column
• Line Numbering and Tables
• Centering Information in Table Cells

Fields Tips

• Jumping Between Fields
• Keeping Fields and Text Together
• Converting Fields to Text
• Locking a Field
• Limiting Directories in the FILENAME Field
• Creating Compound Characters
• Sequentially Numbering Elements in Your Document
• Numbering With Sequence Fields
• Inserting the Total Number of Words in Your Document
• Controlling the Format of Cross-References
• Inserting Custom Properties with Fields
• Referencing a Page Number In Another Document
• Word and Character Count Information
• Inserting a Cross-Reference to the Last Style on a Page
• Inserting a Document's Location
• Inserting the Name of the Last Person to Save the Document
• Protecting Fields
• Updating Fields in Locked Forms
• Printing Field Codes
• Starting Chapters on Odd-Numbered Pages

Sorting and Searching Tips

• Sorting Text
• Controlling How Word Sorts Text
• Changing Sort Order
• Searching for Formatting
• Searching for Special Characters
• Searching for Optional Hyphens
• Quickly Changing Tab Alignment
• Replacing Hidden Text
• Pay Attention to Case When Searching for ASCII Codes
• Finding Formatted Bulleted Paragraphs
• Using Search Text in the Replacement
• Removing Entire Paragraphs from Your Document
• Changing the Formatting of All Instances of a Word
• Selective Formatting in Searches
• Selective Formatting in Replacements
• Moving Found Text Down On a Page

Printing Tips

• Understanding Background Printing
• Printing Only Selected Pages
• Collating Copies
• Printing Style Sheets
• Printing a Font List
• Printing a Draft of a Document
• Printing All Open Documents
• Missing Left Border
• Chopped Off Page Borders
• Printing Return Address Labels
• Upside-Down Printing
• Misbehaving Leader Dots
• Creating a Full-Page Border Using PostScript
• Getting a Double-Spaced Printout
• Duplexing Documents, by Default
• Printing a Document's Mirror Image
• Changing Print Dialog Box Defaults
• Backing Up Label Layouts
• Printing Personalized Copies of a Document
• Two Page Numbers per Physical Page
• Printer Name on the Status Bar
• Correct Line Numbers When Printing Selections
• Preparing Files for the Printer
• Stable Layout on Different Printers
• Printing Reversed Images
• Defining Default Printers on a Document Level
• Suppressing ASK Fields When Printing
• Text Prints as Bold, but Displays as Regular
• Printing a Circle Using PostScript
• Conditional Processing During a Mail Merge
• Merging Formatted Data
• Changing Label Printing Order

Graphics Tips

• Changing the Size of a Graphic
• Resize Graphics Outside of Word
• Selecting Lots of Graphics
• Turning Off Borders for Data Series
• Drawing a Curve
• Moving Images behind Text
• Scaling Graphics in a Macro
• Understanding Object Anchors
• Moving Object Anchors
• Determining Picture Size in VBA
• Absolutely Positioning a Picture
• Creating Usable Figure Captions
• Only Inline Figures can be Seen and Printed
• Merging Graphics from Access
• Merging Graphics into Word Documents
• Changing Defaults for Text Boxes and Callouts
• Disappearing Graphics Groups
• Searching and Replacing Graphics
• Extracting Pictures from a Document

Files Tips

• Saving Everything
• Saving All Open Documents
• Understanding MRU Files
• Grabbing the MRU List
• Printing a File List
• Getting Rid of Hidden Text in Many Files
• Converting PDF to Word Documents
• Mass Search and Replace
• Determining Word Versions of Documents
• Recovering Password-Protected Documents
• Saving Personalized Copies of a Document
• Problems Opening Documents from Explorer
• Delays when Double-Clicking a Document Icon
• Opening Only a Merge Document
• Merging to Individual Files
• Creating a Document Clone
• Open Documents Suddenly Become Read-Only
• Embedding TrueType Fonts by Default
• Saving in MS-DOS Text Mode
• Files Open in Word 2003, but not Word 2000
• Error Generated if Files Opened in Word Session
• Word Link to Create a New Excel Workbook

Online Tips

• Hyperlinks to PDF Files Won't Open
• Making Live URLs Into Normal Text

Tools Tips

• Spell Checking with Text Boxes
• Editing Custom Dictionaries
• Creating a Spelling Exclusion List
• Checking for Gender-Specific Grammar
• Checking for Sentences Beginning with Conjunctions
• Checking Up On Numbers
• Checking for Incorrect Numbers in Text
• Correctly Repeated Words
• Quickly Accessing Spelling and Grammar Options
• Automatically Capitalizing Day Names
• Linking to Slides in PowerPoint
• Fixing Word
• French Contents in an English World
• Condensing Figure Caption References
• AutoCorrecting for Your Common Errors
• Disabling Track Changes Completely
• Hyphenating Your Document
• Embedding TrueType Fonts in E-mails Composed in Word
• Inserting a Text Box
• Word Won't Capitalize Some Sentences
• Adding an Equation Editor Tool
• Wrong Characters Printed in Equations
• Randomly Resetting Numbering
• Cross-Referencing to Line Numbers

Macros Tips

• Writing a Macro from Scratch
• Understanding Variables in VBA Macros
• Understanding Subroutines
• Understanding Functions
• Passing Parameters to Functions
• Understanding the If ... End If Structure
• Understanding the For … Next Structure
• Understanding the Select Case Structure
• Understanding Precedence
• Repeating In a Macro
• Assigning a Macro to a Shortcut Key
• Removing a Macro from a Shortcut Key
• Renaming a Macro
• Hiding Macros
• Deleting a Macro
• Moving to the Start or End of the Real Document
• Determining the Size of a File
• Determining the Number of Paragraphs in a Document
• Printing Styles in a Macro
• Quickly Clearing Array Contents
• Batch Template Changes
• Printing Comments from a Macro
• Changing the Default Drive
• Printing Shortcut Key Assignments from a Macro
• Cleaning Up Text in a Macro
• Finding and Changing Word's Internal Commands
• Printing the Active Document from a Macro
• Converting Inches to Points
• Setting the Left Indent of a Paragraph in a Macro
• Determining the Upper Bounds of an Array
• Finding Long Lines
• Repaginating in a Macro
• Pulling Out Spelling Errors
• Inserting a Paragraph from within a Macro
• Macro Error when Closing Document
• Printing Summary Information from a Macro
• Calculating a Future Date
• Turning on Large Icons in a Macro
• Setting the Right Indent of a Paragraph in a Macro
• Automatically Inserting Brackets
• Converting Numbers to Text
• Creating a Document Font List
• Locating the My Documents Folder
• Setting Maximum Line Lengths in Word E-mail Messages
• Jumping to the Start or End of a Document
• Printing Graphic Thumbnails

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