WordTips Ribbon 2021 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2021 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

• Understanding Views
• Creating New Windows
• Arranging Document Windows
• Meaningless Text
• Shortcut for Show/Hide
• Turning on Picture Placeholders
• Understanding Point Sizes
• Understanding Picas
• Viewing Your Entire Document Width
• Hiding and Displaying Hidden Text
• Automatically Saving Changes to Defaults
• Unwanted Font in Draft View
• Adding Common Line Spacing Options
• Typing in Boxes
• Setting User Information
• Setting Your Default Document Directory
• Resetting Ribbons
• Leaving Bullet Point Items Lowercase
• Making the Paste Options Button Option Persistent

Editing Tips

• Repeating Your Typing
• Jumping to a Specific Page
• Jumping to a Relative Page
• Jumping to a Relative Section
• Jumping to a Relative Line Number
• Inserting Special Spaces
• Inserting a Non-Breaking Space
• Inserting a Special Symbol
• Inserting a Copyright Mark
• Inserting the Date and Time
• Using Correct Apostrophes
• Getting the Proper Type of Ellipses
• Selecting a Sentence
• Not Selecting Images when Selecting Text
• Ctrl+V No Longer Works
• Unable to Edit Document with Embedded Fonts
• Copying and Pasting without Affecting the Clipboard
• Extra Space after Quotation Mark when Pasting
• Removing Breaks
• Removing Entire Paragraphs from Your Document
• Replacing Quoted Text with Italics
• Adding Quotes
• Using Overtype Mode
• Controlling Overtype Mode
• Highlighting Buried Verbs
• Added Spaces when Dragging and Dropping Paragraphs
• Typing Pronunciations of Words
• Single-Character Fractions
• Generating a List of Dates
• Highlighting Duplicate Words
• Removing Duplicates in Word
• Collecting Highlighted Text Selections
• Making the 'Welcome Back' Message Consistent and Permanent
• Capitalizing the First Letter after a Colon
• Capitals After Colons
• Capitalizing the First Letter after a Quote Mark
• Changing Strikethrough Lines
• Using Manual Line Breaks with Justified Paragraphs
• Viewing More of the Left Margin Area
• Transposing Two Paragraphs
• Default Click and Type Paragraph Style
• Making Managerial Titles Lowercase
• Changing Existing Highlighting
• Preventing the Insertion of Non-Breaking Spaces
• Jumping to the End of the Document in Error
• Squeezing Everything In

Searching Tips

• Initiating a New Search
• Controlling Case in Find and Replace
• Special Characters in Pattern Matching
• Searching for Text that Doesn't End a Paragraph
• Searching for Text Not Using a Certain Style
• Finding Missing Spaces before Numbers
• Replacements Use an Incorrect Foreign Language Character
• Replacing with Plain Text
• Deleting Regular Text between Bold Text
• Replacing with a Subscript
• Finding All Camel-Case Words
• Finding and Deleting Rows
• Searching for ASCII and ANSI Characters
• Searching for Items in an Automatically Numbered List
• Searching for Optional Hyphens
• Searching for Periods Not Followed by a Space
• Find and Replace in a Column or Row
• Searching for Breaks
• Searching and Replacing Graphics
• Replacing Text with a Graphic
• Replacing Graphics with Graphics

Markup Tips

• Getting a Change and Comment Count by Author
• Accepting All Formatting Changes
• Accepting All Deletions in a Document
• Adding Comments to Your Document
• Displaying Document Comments
• Hiding Individual Comments

Character Formatting Tips

• Understanding Font Styles
• Making Text Bold
• Changing the Height of a Font
• Superscript and Subscript at the Same Place
• Using the Highlighter
• Underlining Quoted Text
• Changing the Underline Color

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Resetting Paragraph Formatting
• Paragraph Formatting Shortcuts
• Understanding Paragraph Alignment
• Understanding At Least Line Spacing
• Double Indenting
• Understanding and Creating Lists
• Creating a Numbered List
• Aligning Numbered Lists on the Period
• Removing a List
• Understanding Default Tab Stops
• Setting the Starting Line Number
• Numbering Only Certain Lines
• Removing Line Numbering
• Borders Surround Lines Instead of Paragraphs
• Mysterious Boxes around Paragraphs
• Adjusting Bottoms of Pages
• Copying Paragraph Formatting with the Mouse
• Format Painter Messes Up Ordinals

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Determining Page Layout
• Selecting a Paper Size
• Changing Page Margins
• Understanding the Gutter Margin
• Mixing Column Formats On a Page
• Changing the Number of Columns in the Middle of a Document
• Using a Single-Column Heading in a Multi-Column Layout
• Watermarks in Columns
• Moving Section Breaks
• Making Sure a Document Always Has an Even Number of Pages

Styles and Templates Tips

• Quickly Copying Styles
• Changing the Names of Multiple Styles
• Remembering a Custom Color
• Deleting a Large Number of Styles
• Automatically Update Document Styles Setting
• Stepping Through Head Formats
• Creating a Boilerplate Document
• Making Templates Available to Word
• Changing the Attached Template
• Protecting the Normal Template During an Update

Tables Tips

• Jumping to Tables
• Jumping to a Table Row
• Jumping to the Ends of Table Rows
• Jumping to the Ends of Table Columns
• Putting Tables within Margins
• Quickly Inserting Tables that Don't Go From Margin to Margin
• Working with Table Columns and Rows
• Converting a Table Into Text
• Entering Tabs in a Table
• Table Rows Truncated in Printout
• Splitting Table Cells
• Centering Information in Table Cells
• Changing Spacing Between Table Cells
• Quickly Inserting Table Rows
• Moving Table Rows Quickly
• Centering a Table
• Setting a Default Table Border Width
• Hiding Gridlines
• Unwanted Vertical Lines in a Table
• Table Header Rows after a Manual Page Break
• Seeing the Height of a Row
• Merging Table Cells
• Last-Row Border Formatting
• Differing Column Widths when Pasting
• Table Won't Flow to Second Page
• Aligning Positive and Negative Whole Numbers in a Column
• Adjusting Column Width from the Keyboard
• Locking Table Contents

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Inserting Footnotes
• Inserting and Deleting Footnotes
• Inserting Endnotes
• Formatting Footnote and Endnote References
• Viewing Footnotes and Endnotes
• Copying and Moving Footnotes and Endnotes
• Copying and Moving Footnotes
• Jumping to a Footnote
• Jumping to a Relative Endnote
• Footnotes in Two Columns
• Footnote Numbers Missing on Printout
• Moving Footnote Text into the Document
• Removing Spaces before Footnote References
• Changing the Way Footnotes Are Numbered
• Brackets around Footnote References
• Controlling Endnote Placement
• Where Do You Want Your Endnotes?
• Endnotes in a Separate Document

Header and Footer Tips

• Creating Page Footers and Headers
• Positioning Headers and Footers
• Deleting a Header or Footer
• Deleting All Headers and Footers
• Changing the Type of Page Numbers Used in Headers or Footers
• Multiple Footers on a Page

Fields and Forms Tips

• Getting Information About Fields
• Copying and Pasting Field Codes
• Inserting the Document Creation Date
• Inserting a Document's Size
• Inserting the User's Initials
• Inserting the Author Name
• Understanding the Advance Field
• Creating an AutoText List
• Understanding DATE Field Formatting
• Using RD Fields with Chapter Headings
• Getting Rid of All TA Fields
• Calculating Page Count for a Range of Sections
• Age Calculation with Fields

Printing Tips

• Specifying the Exact Pages to Print
• Using Duplex Printing
• Reversing Print Order
• Changing Focus when Starting to Print
• Remembering Copies to Print
• Printing without Headings
• Controlling the Printing of Highlighting
• Getting a Double-Spaced Printout
• Printing AutoText Entries
• Generating a PDF that Uses CMYK Colors
• Printing Show/Hide Characters
• Printing a Key Assignment List
• Limiting Document Page Count
• Printing Images Based on Hidden Text Setting
• Making Banners in Word

Envelope and Mail Merge Tips

• Removing Return Addresses
• Printer Won't Print Envelope Font
• Rounding in a Mail Merge
• Merging and Printing a Series of Documents

Graphics Tips

• Drawing a Curve
• Moving Drawing Objects
• Stop Graphics and Text from Jumping Around
• Grouping Drawing Objects
• Selecting a Graphic that is Behind Text
• Hiding Graphics
• Flipping a Drawing Object
• Keeping an Image Centered in a Table Cell
• Making Resize to Fit Text the Default

Files Tips

• Determining if a Document is Corrupt
• Changing the Default Location for Saving a Document
• Saving Your Work Automatically
• Creating Documents that Don't Use Embedded Fonts
• Extra Document File Being Saved
• Grabbing the MRU List
• Can't Save Edited Document
• Limiting the Options when Saving as a Copy

Online and Other Programs Tips

• Differences in Behavior of Links
• Changing Many Link Locations
• Pasting a Hyperlink
• Adding a ScreenTip
• ScreenTips without Hyperlinks
• Changing from Absolute to Relative Hyperlinks
• Associating a Name with a Position

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Spell Checking Your Document
• Setting Spell-Checking Options
• Updating the Spelling Exclusion List Automatically
• Spelling Errors Resulting from Erroneous Spaces
• Keeping Words in the Custom Dictionary
• Spell-checking Uppercase Words
• Turning Off Error Checking for a Specific Word
• Accepting Capitalization of a Proper Noun
• Adding Phrases to the Grammar Checker

Tools Tips

• Automatically Adding Captions
• Changing the GoTo Default
• AutoFormatting a Document
• After Pressing Enter, Text Becomes a Heading
• Vertical Lines in Word
• Drawing a Line
• Using Bar Tab Stops
• Using Borders
• Lines between Columns
• Using Tables
• Changing AutoFormatting Rules
• Importing AutoCorrect Entries
• Getting Rid of an Unwanted AutoCorrect
• Correcting Capitalization with AutoCorrect
• Making Bookmarks Bold
• Printing a Bookmark List
• Changing Fonts for AutoText Entries
• Changing Sort Order
• Odd Sorting
• Hyperlinks from Headings to the TOC
• Creating a Custom TOC that Includes Portions of Paragraphs
• The Manual Method
• Using Style Separators
• Formatting Issues with Indexing Levels
• Putting Bold Words in an Index

Macros Tips

• Understanding Functions
• Understanding Variables
• Understanding Precedence
• Understanding the If ... End If Structure
• Repeating In a Macro
• Continuing Macro Lines
• Finding and Changing Word's Internal Commands
• Using Message Boxes
• Comparing Strings
• Dissecting a String
• Hiding Macros
• Deleting a Macro
• Protecting Macros in a Corporate Environment
• Formatting Text Files with VBA
• Using Sequential Document Serial Numbers
• Calculating a Future Date
• Cleaning Up Text in a Macro
• Can't Edit Macros
• Determining the Week of the Year
• Moving to the Start or End of the Real Document
• Moving Through a Table in a Macro
• Jumping to the Start or End of a Document
• Changing the Default Drive
• Creating a Directory
• Turning Off Screen Updating
• Aligning a Paragraph in a Macro
• Setting the Left Indent of a Paragraph in a Macro
• Repaginating in a Macro
• Accessing the Dirty Flag
• Determining the Current Page Number
• Determining the Day of the Month
• Determining if Overtype Mode is Active
• Determining the Horizontal Position of the Insertion Point
• Determining If a Number is Odd or Even
• Determining How Many Styles are Available
• Determining the Size of a File
• Printing Summary Information from a Macro
• Printing a Macro List
• Printing the Code for a Macro Procedure
• Printing Shortcut Key Assignments from a Macro

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