WordTips Ribbon 2019 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2019 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

• Displaying the Full Ribbon
• Speeding Up Document Display
• Speeding Up Cursor Movement
• Nifty Zooming with the Mouse
• Cascading Document Windows
• Shortcut for Full Screen Reading View
• Viewing Multiple Pages
• Increasing the Size of the Draft Font
• Formatting In Your Outline
• Making Save As Display the Save As Dialog Box
• Allowing Only Comments In a Document
• Creating Custom Document Properties
• Using Document Properties to Ensure Consistent References

Editing Tips

• Jumping to the End of a Word
• Selecting Just the Word
• Inconsistent Availability of Drag and Drop Editing
• Inserting Foreign Characters
• Adding an Inverted A
• Inserting a Bullet
• Capitalizing after a Sentence Ending with a Number
• Capitalizing the Word "I"
• Forcing a Word to Lowercase
• Using the Copy or Move Text Keys
• Getting Rid of the Paste Options Box
• Unknown Non-Printing Characters
• Using Non-Printing Notes
• Changing Measurement Units
• Adding an Optional Break
• Adding Tabs at the Beginning of a Line
• Counting Document Lines
• Dealing with Run-On Sentences
• Breaking Into Sentences
• Changing the Maximum Undo Levels

Searching Tips

• Finding an Unknown Character
• Quick and Dirty Paragraph Count
• Searching for Tabs
• Searching for Paragraph Marks and Line Breaks
• Using Find and Replace to Change Text Case
• Changing Formatting for a Portion of Found Text
• Smart Quotes are Incorrectly Replaced
• Applying a Character Style to Bracketed Text
• Moving Footnote References Using Find and Replace
• Changing European Dates to US Dates
• Removing All Comments

Markup Tips

• Changing How Changes are Noted in Word
• Specifying How Changes are Marked
• Turning Off Track Changes Change Bars
• Permanently Turning Off the Tracking of Formatting Changes
• Tracked Changes Won't Go Away
• Disabling Track Changes Completely
• Consolidating Changes under a Single User
• Finding Changes Made by Two People
• Using Different Colors with Tracked Changes
• Getting a Warning for Markup
• Viewing Comments
• Inserting Initials and Date in a Comment

Building Block Tips

• Understanding Building Blocks
• Creating a Building Block
• Reloading Building Blocks
• Specifying a Default Building Block Location
• Synchronizing Building Blocks for a Network
• Backing Up Building Blocks

Character Formatting Tips

• Accurate Font Sizes
• Finding Word's Font Substitutes
• Font Substitution Problems
• Adjusting Text Pitch
• Reducing the Size of Spaces in a Selection
• Smushing Text Together
• Making a List of Words Italic
• Understanding Strikethrough Formatting
• Changing One of Three Fonts
• Changing All Text of a Particular Color
• Controlling the Bold Text Attribute

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Indenting a Paragraph
• Controlling Automatic Indenting
• Creating a Hanging Indent
• Quickly Adjusting Paragraph Spacing
• Getting the Expected Space Before a Heading
• Applying Formatting in Lists
• Changing the Types of Numbers in a Numbered List
• Turning Off Automatic Numbered Lists
• Adding Borders to Paragraphs
• Quickly Displaying Formatting Specs
• Last Paragraph Line Strung Out Incorrectly
• Squeezing Lines Together
• Reducing Leading without Cutting Off Text
• Characters in the Margin Next to Paragraphs
• Turning Off Line Numbering
• Tabbing Beyond the Right Margin
• Deleting Tab Stops
• Using Dot Leaders in a Paragraph
• Strange Tab Settings in Bulleted Items

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Starting a New Section on an Odd Page Number
• Automatic Blank Pages at the End of a Section
• Incorrect Page Counts Shown in Status Bar
• Making Bottoms of Pages Line Up
• Same Number of Lines per Page
• Lining Up Bottoms
• Publishing Manuscripts
• Non-printing Page Borders
• Detailed Measurements
• Adding Columns to Your Page Layout
• Quickly Changing Columns
• Adding Vertical Lines Between Columns
• Making Columns the Same Length
• Losing All Formatting in a Document
• Absolutely Getting Rid of Formatting
• Embedding TrueType Fonts
• Embedding TrueType Fonts by Default

Styles and Templates Tips

• Using the Style Area
• Displaying the Styles You Want Displayed
• Automatically Updating Styles
• Reapplying Styles Seamlessly
• Cleaning Up a Document that Mixes Styles with Direct Formatting
• Getting Rid of Variant Styles
• Using Hidden Styles
• Making Custom Heading Styles Appear in the Navigation Pane
• Ensuring that Spell Checking is Enabled in All Styles
• Intelligently Starting a New Paragraph
• Using Alternating Styles
• Editing a Template
• Adding Individual Styles to the Template
• Tracking Changes to Templates
• Saving a Preview with Your Template
• Putting Template Macros in a Document
• Examining Styles and Macros in a Template
• Create a Template that Stops Styles from Being Added to a Document

Tables Tips

• Creating a Table Using the Keyboard
• Converting Text Into a Table
• Adjusting Column Width Using the Ribbon
• Resizing Table Columns with the Mouse
• Squaring Table Cells
• Clearing the Contents of a Table
• Limiting Lines in a Table Cell
• Formatting an ASCII Table with Tabs
• Keeping Table Rows Together
• Hiding Table Rows on a Printout
• Inconsistent Repeating of a Table Header Row
• Check for Multiple Tables
• Check the Text Wrapping Setting
• Don't Set All Rows to be Header Rows
• Don't Work with Nested Tables
• Cannot Set Heading Rows in a Table
• Getting Rid of Background Color in All Tables
• Hiding Table Gridlines, by Default
• Expanding Width of All Tables
• Resizing Very Large Tables
• Preventing Overlapping Tables
• Alphabetizing By Last Name
• Controlling How Word Sorts Text

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes
• Inserting Footnotes Using Custom Footnote Marks
• Changing What Follows a Footnote Number
• Sequentially Numbering Footnotes
• Restarting Footnote Number after Page Breaks
• Footnotes for Chapters
• Formatting Endnote Reference Marks
• Endnotes by Chapter
• Putting Your Index after Your Endnotes

Header and Footer Tips

• Changing Headers and Footers
• Changing Body Text to a Heading
• Moving Headings to the Next Page
• Putting Document Names in Headers or Footers
• Paragraph Numbers in Headers or Footers
• Adding Page Numbers
• Using Last-page Headers and Footers
• Floating Footer

Fields and Forms Tips

• Controlling Field Shading
• Protecting Fields
• Locking a Field
• Locating Locked Fields
• Inserting Custom Properties with Fields
• Calculating Dates with Fields
• Fields in Footnotes Won't Update Automatically
• Starting Chapters on Odd-Numbered Pages
• Using Continued Lines
• Getting a Proper Total Page Count
• Different Ways of Inserting Dates
• Understanding Forms
• Saving and Using a Form
• Working with Form Fields
• Using Mandatory Form Fields
• Handling Returns in Form Data
• Lines that Don't Change When You Type
• Protecting Parts of a Document

Printing Tips

• Understanding Page Sizes
• Collating Copies
• Saving Print Specifications with a Document
• Defining Default Printers On a Document Level
• Unwanted Cover Pages with Print Jobs
• Leaving Even Pages Blank
• Printing AutoCorrect Entries
• Problem Printing Quotation Marks
• Booklet Printing in Word
• Forcing a Final Blank Page
• Changing Label Sizes
• Return Address Isn't Saved
• Calculated Dates
• Using Merge Fields
• Using Mail Merge to Complete Documents
• Creating Files with Mail Merge
• Conditional Processing During a Mail Merge
• Creating Labels

Graphics Tips

• Resize Graphics Outside of Word
• Using the Drawing Grid
• Nudging a Graphic
• Positioning Graphics Evenly
• Absolutely Positioning a Graphic
• Keeping Callouts Positioned
• Writing On Top of Locked Graphics
• Moving Object Anchors
• Anchoring Objects by Default
• Disappearing Graphics Groups
• Securing Your Signature
• Adding Lines to a Document
• Missing Left Border
• Gradient Prints as Stripes
• Understanding WordArt
• Unlinking an Excel Chart Automatically
• Saving Embedded Images to Individual Files
• Only Inline Figures Can be Seen and Printed
• Turning Off Overlapping, by Default
• Rounded Corners for a Text Box
• Columns in a Text Box
• Creating See-Through Text Boxes
• Changing Defaults for Text Boxes and Callouts
• Determining Picture Size in a Macro
• Scaling Graphics in a Macro

Files Tips

• Opening a Word Document when Starting the Computer
• Opening Multiple Documents at Once
• Limiting What is Shown in the Open Dialog Box
• Default Sort Order in the Open Dialog Box
• Cannot Open Multiple Word Documents
• Understanding MRU Files
• Creating Two Versions of the Same Document
• Saving Personalized Copies of a Document
• Mirroring Documents
• Creating a Document Clone
• Setting a Document Naming Convention
• Inserting a File Name without an Extension
• Removing All File Properties
• Blocking the First Sentence from File Info
• Getting a List of Folder Contents
• Saving Information in a Non-Document Text File
• Using Seek In a Macro

Online and Other Programs Tips

• Making Live URLs Into Normal Text
• Creating an E-mail Message from the Current Document
• Turning E-mail Addresses into Hyperlinks
• Embedding Linked Documents
• Breaking a Document Link
• Unexpected Error Exporting a PDF
• Embedded MP4 Files in a PDF Document
• Creating an Excel Workbook from within Word
• Very Slow Document Opening with Excel Links

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Spell Checking when Closing Documents
• Disappearing Readability Statistics
• Creating a Spelling Exclusion List
• Allowing Passive Voice in Writing

Tools Tips

• Multiple Envelopes in One Document
• Making Sure Word Doesn't Capitalize Anything Automatically
• Make AutoCorrect Pay Attention to Character Case
• Backing Up Your AutoCorrect Entries
• Using Text Boundaries
• Automatic Italics of Newspaper Names
• Translating Text
• Creating a List of Cross-References
• Specifying a Table of Contents Entry
• Using TC Fields for Notes
• Creating a Table of Contents from TOC Fields
• Creating an Index Entry
• Creating an Index Entry for a Range of Pages
• Creating Many Index Entries at Once
• Using Subentries in an AutoMark File
• Specifying an Index Entry Separator
• Specifying an Index Page-Range Separator
• Creating a Normal Index
• Ignoring Hyphens in Word Counts
• Calculating Expressions
• Understanding and Using Bookmarks
• Reusing a Bookmark
• Protecting Bookmarks
• Understanding Master and Subdocuments
• Creating a Master Document Using Existing Subdocuments
• Tools to Boost Motivation and Productivity

Macros Tips

• Displaying the Developer Tab
• Renaming a Macro
• Assigning a Macro to a Shortcut Key
• Removing a Macro from a Shortcut Key
• Adding a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar
• Automating a Manual Process with a Macro
• Understanding the Select Case Structure
• Understanding Document Variables
• Setting a VBA Variable From a Bookmark
• Quickly Clearing Array Contents
• Converting Strings to Numbers
• Converting Numbers to Strings
• Converting Numbers to Text
• Protecting Macros in the Normal Template
• Running Macros from Macros
• Using Call to Run VBA Macros
• Determining If a File Exists
• Renaming a File
• Removing a Directory
• Determining a Random Value
• Determining a Paragraph's Style in VBA
• Determining the Number of Paragraphs in a Document
• Determining an Integer Value
• Determining the Hour of the Day
• Selecting to the Next Punctuation Mark
• Moving the Insertion Point to the Beginning of a Line
• Controlling the Hidden Text Attribute
• Highlighting Every Thousandth Character
• Changing Roman Numerals to Arabic
• Updating an Entire TOC from a Macro
• Examining Tracked Changes in a Macro
• Inserting a Break with a Macro
• Displaying a Column Number
• Managing the AutoCorrect List

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