WordTips Ribbon 2017 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2017 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

• Changing the Document Window Background Color
• Understanding Unicode Characters
• Updating Automatic Links
• Unwanted Graph Paper Effect
• Default Units that Change
• Calculating Average Word Length
• Page Layout Zoom Settings
• Selecting Tabs in Dialog Boxes
• Understanding Default Insert Date Formatting
• Resetting All Shortcut Keys
• Shortening Word's Font List
• Resetting a Single Shortcut Key

Editing Tips

• Quickly Changing Document Windows
• Arranging Paragraphs
• Jumping Back in a Long Document
• Creating Compound Characters
• Checking for Matching Parentheses
• Better Ways to Insert Symbols
• Copying Red Text to a New Document
• Selecting an Entire Section
• Overlining Characters
• An Automatic Two Spaces After a Period
• Generating a Count of Word Occurrences
• Font Changes when Pasting to Another Document
• Inserting Dashes between Letters in Words
• Using Optional Hyphens
• Using an En Dash, by Default
• Putting Character Codes to Work

Searching Tips

• Changing the Formatting of All Instances of a Word
• Finding and Replacing Text Boxes
• Changing the Position of the Dollar Sign
• Replacing Some Smart Quotes
• Adding an Ellipsis to the Beginning of Some Paragraphs
• Applying Styles and Removing Characters using Find and Replace
• Finding and Replacing Table Cell Color
• Getting Rid of Trailing Spaces in Footnotes and Endnotes
• Quickly Changing Tab Alignment

Markup Tips

• Pasting Text with Track Changes
• Turning Track Changes Off for Selected Areas
• Converting Text to Comments
• Changing the User Name in Existing Comments

Auto Tips

• Adding Automatic Lines
• Backing Up Your AutoText Entries
• Automatically Using Smart Quotes
• Punctuation Marks that Don't End Sentences
• Smart Quotes in AutoCorrect Entries
• Removing Confusion When Using AutoCorrect

Bookmark Tips

• Random OLE Bookmarks
• Detecting if the Insertion Point is Inside a Bookmark
• Automatically Referencing Info Entered in a Table

Character Formatting Tips

• Quickly Displaying the Font Dialog Box
• Changing Text Case
• Intelligent Title Case
• Using Very Large Font Sizes
• Letters Turn Into Squares
• Creating Thin Spaces
• Shortcuts to Change Text Colors
• Changing the Color of a Tab's Leader Character
• Discovering the RGB Value of a Custom Text Color
• Changing the Default Highlighting Color
• Highlighting Information Using Shading

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Extending a Paragraph into the Left Margin
• Margins Automatically Move to Indent
• Borders on Multiple Paragraphs with Differing Indents
• Clearing All Tabs in a Document
• Triple-Spacing Your Document
• The Line that Won't Go Away
• Getting Rid of Choppiness in Justified Text
• Keep with Previous
• Ensuring Standardized Numbering
• Randomly Resetting Numbering
• Changing the Bullet Type

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Maintaining Formatting when Inserting Documents
• Margins for All Documents Changing

Styles and Templates Tips

• How Word Applies Styles
• One Change Affects Everything
• Copying Styles
• Using Copy and Paste
• Using the Format Painter
• Saving As a Template
• Using the Organizer
• Using a Macro
• Making Sure Styles Don't Update Automatically
• Bold Turning On by Itself
• Keeping the Styles Pane Open by Default
• Changing the Style Gallery
• Problems with TOC Styles
• Stopping Styles from Changing with Multiple Users
• Finding Where Templates Are Stored
• Listing the Settings in a Template
• Quick Access Toolbars and Templates

Tables Tips

• Erasing Table Lines
• Deleting a Table
• AutoFitting Tables
• Formatting Lots of Tables
• Removing Leading Spaces in a Table
• Distributing Table Rows Evenly
• Aligning Decimal Numbers in Tables
• Filling Table Cells with Sequential Numbers
• Fitting Your Text In a Table Cell
• Setting Decimal Tabs in a Table Using the Keyboard
• Counting Values in Table Cells
• Printing Only Selected Rows from a Table
• Creating Tables with Specific Column Widths
• Suppressing a Zero In a Calculated Sum
• Copying Fill Color in a Table
• Preventing a Frame when Converting a Table to Text

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Deleting All Footnotes
• Deleting Footnotes and Endnotes
• Changing the Footnote Continuation Notice
• Footnotes for Tables
• Getting Rid of Hyperlinks in Footnotes

Header and Footer Tips

• Keyboard Shortcut to Access Header and Footer
• Protecting Headers and Footers
• Placing the First Two Words from the Following Page In the Footer
• Including a Printer's Name in a Footer

Fields and Forms Tips

• Inserting a Document's Path
• Inserting the Text of a Cross-Reference
• Deleting All Fields
• A Quick-and-Dirty Word Count
• Field Reference to Number of Prior Pages
• Using the GotoButton Field
• Printing Field Codes
• Implementing a Dynamic Document Control Table
• Updating Calculated Fields in a Form
• Conditional Calculations in Word
• Copying Form Field Contents
• Filling Forms and Editing Documents
• Referencing Fields in Another Document

Printing Tips

• Removing Blank Pages at the End of Your Document
• Printing Odd or Even Pages
• Easily Changing Print Order
• Printing Style Sheets
• Printing a Font List
• Automatic Font Color Won't Print Properly
• Non-Printing Hyperlinks
• Using Unique Document Serial Numbers
• Selecting Printing of Color Pictures
• Two Printed Copies to Different Paper Trays
• Shortcut Key to Make Print Preview Active
• Shortcut to Save as a PDF
• Preparing Files for a Commercial Printer
• Printing Personalized Copies of a Document
• Getting Rid of Mail Merge Section Breaks
• Printing Portions of Mail Merged Documents
• Conditionally Adding a Period in a Mail Merge
• Merging Only a Date from Access
• Proper Comparisons for Dates in Merge Fields
• Checkboxes in a Merged Document
• Printing Return Address Labels
• Creating Custom Labels
• Saving Money on Printing Labels
• Adding Text to an Envelope
• Delivery Address Won't Print on Envelopes
• Setting the Return Address Used in Word

Graphics Tips

• Understanding Grayscale Images
• Duplicating Drawing Objects
• Changing a Shape
• Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front
• Wrapping Text Around a Graphic
• Resizing a Text Box
• Finding and Removing Stubborn Graphics
• Problems Pasting Large Pictures
• Turning Off Borders for Data Series

Files Tips

• Combining Documents
• Converting Many DOC Files to DOCX
• Opening a Text File and Template from the Command Line
• Jumping Around Folders
• Limits on Path Length in Word
• Use Filenames that Sort Properly
• Finding Out the Folder for an Open Document

Online and Other Programs Tips

• Making Hyperlinks from Coded Text
• Smart Quotes with Dragon Naturally Speaking
• Word Link to Create a New Excel Workbook

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Hiding Errors
• Resetting Spelling and Grammar Checking on Multiple Documents
• Limiting a Spelling Check
• Changing How Word Flags Compound Words
• Ignoring Punctuation in Names
• Catching Single-Letter Spelling Errors
• Spell Checking Forms

Tools Tips

• Sorting Single-Column Addresses
• Hyphenating Your Document
• Turning Off Hyphenation for Individual Words
• Creating a Table of Contents from Heading Levels
• Creating a TOC that Includes Specific Styles
• Using Multiple Tables of Contents
• Multiple Indexes in a Document
• Finding Related Words
• Correcting Student Papers
• Only Showing Readability Statistics

Macros Tips

• Editing Word's Built-in Commands
• Creating a String
• Reversing a String
• Automatically Running a Macro
• Assigning a Macro to a Button in Your Text
• Making Macros Available without Using the Normal Template
• Saving in a Macro Using a Desired File Name
• Saving in Document Format from a Macro
• Determining Differences Between Dates
• Adding Smart Quotes through Macro Text
• Temporarily Changing the Printer in a Macro
• Getting Input from a Text File
• Character Frequency Count
• Determining the Number of Bookmarks Defined in a Document
• Counting Open Document Windows
• Reversing All the Paragraphs in a Document
• Finding a Change in Typeface
• Automatically Inserting Tomorrow's Date

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