WordTips Ribbon 2020 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2020 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

• Using Function Keys
• Resetting a Function Key
• Word Won't Maximize
• Displaying Nonprinting Characters
• Changing the Startup Directory
• Replacing Text Selections
• Incorrect Last Modified Date on E-mailed Documents
• Printing a Screen without the Print Screen Key
• Changing Dialog Box Pull-Down List Item Order
• Fonts Missing in Word
• Factory Default Settings for Word
• Jumping to the End of Page after Enter
• Ribbon Acting Strangely
• Missing Top and Bottom Margins
• Missing Page Break Indicator
• Turning Off the Automatic Help that Word Offers
• Turning Off the 'Welcome Back' Notice
• Turning Off ScreenTips
• Getting Rid of ScreenTips
• Using Alt to Switch Language Keyboards
• Adjusting Navigation Pane Font Size
• Controlling the Heading Levels Displayed in the Navigation Pane
• How Many Items Can be Added to the Quick Access Toolbar?

Editing Tips

• Differences between Deleting, Clearing, and Cutting
• Selecting a Word
• Repeating Actions
• Plain Text Pasting as the Default
• Too Many Edits Prevent Pasting
• Moving Text without Affecting the Clipboard
• Inserting a Dynamic Line Count
• Moving an Entire Page
• Deleting a Page
• Automatically Identifying Repeated Words
• Emoticons in Word
• Adding Half Spaces to Punctuation
• Comparing Documents Top and Bottom
• Deletions Don't Work as Expected
• Transposing Letters
• Transposing Two Characters
• Transposing Two Words
• Locking Paragraphs So They Cannot be Edited
• Talking to Yourself
• Removing a Bulleted or Numbered List
• Applying Bullets from the Keyboard
• Turning Off Automatic Capitalization in Lists
• Restarting a Numbered List Easily
• Converting Automatic Numbering to Manual Numbering
• Jumping to a Line Number
• Symbols for Non-Printing Characters
• Inserting Different Dashes
• Selecting a Text Block
• Changing Smart Quotes to Primes
• Sticking with the Dashes
• An Easy Way to Count Items
• Smart Quote after Em Dash Faces Wrong Direction
• Two Keys with the Press of One
• Creating Special, Compound Characters
• Seeing Where Bookmarks Are
• Deleting a Bookmark
• Removing All Bookmarks
• Condensing and Expanding Headings
• Changing a Heading to Body Text

Searching Tips

• Searching for Special Characters
• Searching for Special Hyphens
• Searching for Formatting
• Searching for Character Formatting
• Returning to Where You Were Before Finding Something
• Easily Finding Superscripts
• Count of Underlined or Struck-Through Words
• Removing HTTP from URLs
• Complex Searches for Documents
• Replacing an X with a Check Mark
• Replacing a Colon in a Sequence
• Replacing Multiple Spaces with Tabs
• Ordering Search and Replace
• Searching for Borders

Markup Tips

• Producing Cleaner Markup
• Accepting Only Formatting Changes
• Showing Only Added Text with Track Changes
• Making Simple Markup the Default for Track Changes
• Word Tracks Changes to Changes
• Deleting Commented Text
• Viewing Comments From a Specific Reviewer
• Comments in Headers and Footers
• Turning Off the Date and Time Shown in a Comment
• Displaying Highlights for Commented Text
• Formatting Comments
• Printing Comments from a Macro

Building Block Tips

• Moving Building Blocks
• Deleting an AutoText Building Block
• Moving Building Block Templates
• Extra Spaces after Inserting a Building Block

Character Formatting Tips

• Changing the Default Font
• Resetting Default Character Formatting
• Applying Formatting to Words
• Finding Missing Fonts
• Moving the Underline Position
• Adding Horizontal Lines at the Sides of a Word
• Changing the Color of a List of Words
• Updating to Smart Quotes
• Reversed Bolding
• Using a Macro to Change the Formatting of All Instances of a Word
• Changing Text Case Many Times
• Using Two Characters as a Drop Cap
• Adjusting Small Caps Text

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Put Your Space Before or After?
• Controlling Widows and Orphans
• Typing Beyond the Right Margin
• Indent and Justify Command
• Centering a Paragraph with the Keyboard
• Double-Spacing Your Document
• Hanging Indents in Wrapped Text
• Turning Off Automatic Bulleted Lists
• Turning Off Paragraph Hyphenation
• Creating an Inline Heading
• Mysterious Blue Line between Paragraphs
• Adding Drop-Shadows to Paragraphs
• Automatic Question Numbering
• Combining First and Second Numbered Levels on One Paragraph
• Adding Line Numbers
• Making a Signature Line that Doesn't Disappear
• Quickly Displaying the Tabs Dialog Box
• Changing Default Tab Stops
• Setting Tab Stops Using the Tabs Dialog Box
• Removing Tabs Used to Indent a Paragraph

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Unable to Set Margins in a Document
• Noting Formatting Inconsistencies
• Chopped Off Page Borders
• Avoiding a Section Break Booby Trap
• Getting Identical Margins
• Aligning Borders with the Page Margins
• An Exact Number of Lines Per Page
• Different Layout for a Portion of a Page
• Printing A4 on Letter Size Paper
• Determining a Column Width
• Making Columns the Same Length
• Changing the Number of Columns
• Using Chapter Numbers with Page Numbers
• Odd Page Numbers Disappearing
• Automatic Page Numbers in New Documents

Styles and Templates Tips

• Renaming a Style
• Moving All Headings Down One Level
• Shortcuts for Basic Style Formatting
• Reformatting a Document with Messed-Up Styles
• Putting Style Names Next to Paragraphs on a Printout
• Preserving Style Formatting when Combining Documents
• Hyperlink Formatting
• Using the Format Painter with Editing Restrictions in Place
• Where Are Templates Stored?
• Best Way to Create a Document Template

Tables Tips

• Applying Borders to Tables
• Adding Diagonal Borders
• Tables within Tables
• Displaying Table Gridlines
• Underlining Cells, Not Space Between Cells
• Moving Rows and Columns With the Mouse
• Copying Rows and Columns With the Mouse
• Quickly Accessing the Column Tab
• Precisely Adjusting Table Column Widths
• Setting a Standard Column Width
• Selecting Individual Cells in a Table
• Converting Tables to Charts
• Space after a Table
• Line Numbering and Tables
• Headings On Your Printout
• Cannot Combine Two Tables
• Filling Table Cells with a Macro
• Putting Something in Every Cell of a Table
• Converting Tables to Text
• Copying All Tables to a New Document
• Sorting Text

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Converting Hyperlinks to Footnotes
• Heavy-Duty Footnotes
• Combining Footnotes
• Footnotes Don't Automatically Renumber
• Automatically Adding Tabs in Footnotes
• Automatically Applying Custom Styles to Footnotes
• Creating Endnotes
• Converting Footnotes to Endnotes
• Converting to Automatic Endnotes
• Adding Footnotes to Endnotes
• Multiple References to an Endnote

Header and Footer Tips

• Odd & Even Headers and Footers
• Inserting the Date in a Header or Footer
• Making Wider Footer Margins
• Automatically Changing Tab Stops in the Footer

Fields and Forms Tips

• Inserting Fields
• Jumping Between Fields
• Finding Fields
• Removing Specific Fields
• Inserting the User's Name
• Inserting the Name of the Last Person to Save the Document
• Inserting a Document's Location
• Inserting a Document's File Location
• Inserting the Current Month
• Indicating the Date Changes were Last Made
• Setting Up an Array with Fields
• Formatting Text in Custom Document Properties
• Field Calculations in Locked Forms
• Fields Won't Update when Printing
• Displaying Blanks when Summing to Zero
• Forcing the Date to the Next Wednesday
• Numbering with Sequence Fields
• Understanding the COMPARE Field
• Using the SYMBOL Field
• Controlling the Format of Cross-References
• Inserting a Cross-Reference to the Last Style on a Page
• Finding Cross-References to Specific Bookmarks
• Creating Traditional Forms
• Valid Numbers in Form Fields

Printing Tips

• Duplex Printing from Multiple Trays
• Duplex by Default
• Transferring Fonts
• Using Only Odd Page Numbers
• Printing the Navigation Pane
• Selecting a Paper Source
• Printing Outside the Boundaries All the Time
• Discovering Printer Drift
• Generating a Font Sample Sheet
• Printing Hidden Text
• Fitting to a Single Page
• Printing Copy Numbers

Envelope, Label, and Mail Merge Tips

• Formatting Labels
• Creating One-time Labels
• Sequentially Numbered Labels
• Changing Label Printing Order
• Opening Only a Merge Document
• Getting Rid of Spaces in Merged Data

Graphics Tips

• Understanding SmartArt
• Changing the Size of a Drawing Object
• Cropping Graphics
• Dragging and Dropping Pictures in a Document
• Understanding "Through" Text Wrapping
• Placing Many Graphics in a Document
• Using Connectors with Shapes
• Replacing an Image Filename with the Actual Image
• Inserting an Image On a Specific Page
• Vertically Aligning Text and an Image
• The Changing Relationship of WordArt and Text Boxes
• Boxes in Boxes
• Selecting Text in Linked Text Boxes
• Removing Text Boxes but Saving the Text

Files Tips

• Viewing Files of a Certain Type
• Opening a Document as Read-Only
• Document is Too Large for Word to Handle
• Recovering Password-Protected Documents
• Last Document Saves Not Saved
• Inserting a File
• Using a Standard Format in a Suggested File Name
• Searching for a Document
• Combining Word Documents
• Mass Search and Replace
• Keeping the Flash Drive Occupied

Online and Other Programs Tips

• Weird Hyperlink Behavior
• Replacing Plain Text with a Hyperlink
• Getting Rid of Many Hyperlinks
• Changing How Links are Activated
• Clearing Lists in the Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box
• Embedding an Excel Worksheet
• Maintaining Destination Formatting on a Linked Excel Table
• Saving a Document as a Web Page
• Specifying Monitor Resolution

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Forcing a Complete Spelling and Grammar Check
• Checking Just the Selected Text
• Editing While Spell-Checking
• Ignoring Words Containing Numbers
• Ignoring the Spelling of Proper Nouns
• Spellcheck for Two Languages
• Merging Custom Dictionaries
• Backing Up Your Custom Dictionaries
• Leading Quote Mark Generates Grammar Error
• Saving Grammar Preferences with a Document
• Marking Gender-Specific Grammar

Tools Tips

• Displaying the Navigation Pane
• Introducing the Organizer
• Controlling Automatic Capitalization
• Word Won't Capitalize Some Sentences
• Hyphenating a Selection
• Word Count is Zero
• Word Counts for a Group of Documents
• Can't Save Formatted AutoCorrect Entries
• AutoCorrecting Non-Typed Text
• Saving AutoText Entries with Each Document
• Creating Categories for Your Table of Authorities
• Customized Tables of Contents
• Adding Column Headings to a Table of Contents
• Two Types of Page Numbers in a TOC
• Adding Quoted Words to an Index
• Specifying Index Section Dividers
• Including Section Numbers in an Index
• Cross-Referencing Index Entries

Macros Tips

• Passing Parameters to Functions
• Changing Directories in a Macro
• Inserting a Paragraph from within a Macro
• Creating a New Document in VBA
• Printing the Active Document from a Macro
• Trimming Spaces from Strings
• Converting Text to Uppercase in a Macro
• Moving the Insertion Point to the End of a Line
• Controlling Repagination in Macros
• Repaginating Your Document in a Macro
• Determining the Number of Pages in Your Document
• Macro Won't Limit Replacements to a Selection
• Saving Search and Replace Information in a Macro
• Jumping to the Top of a Page
• Accessing a Footnote Number in VBA
• Printing a List of AutoCorrect Entries
• Locating the My Documents Folder
• Adding Hyphens to Phrases
• Determining if Num Lock is On
• Selecting a Bookmark in a Macro
• Changing Pronoun Gender

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