WordTips Ribbon 2025 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2025 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

• Horizontally Viewing All Your Text
• Controlling Scroll Bars
• Making the Show/Hide Setting Persistent
• Displaying Only Some Non-Printing Characters
• Embedding Your Phone Number in a Document
• Automatically Updating Fields and Links
• Avoiding the Update Links Message
• Adjusting Gridline Spacing
• Direction Arrows Confused
• Generating a Shortcut Key List
• Using an Older Font with Word
• Increasing Font Size in the Editor Task Pane

Editing Tips

• Moving Text Using the Mouse
• Slowing Down Mouse Selection
• Overcoming Automatic Word Selection
• Entering a Degree Sign
• Output Error when Pasting Right-to-Left Text
• How Word Handles Abbreviations
• Highlighting Text Using the Keyboard Only
• Shortcut Key to Delete a Paragraph
• Pasted Text is Surrounded by Boxes
• Placeholders for Stamps
• Overlining Characters
• Pasting Text in a Specific Language
• Finding Long Paragraphs
• Lines Breaking between Double Spaces
• Converting Citations from Chicago to APA Style

Searching Tips

• Putting Shift+F4 On the Quick Access Toolbar
• Replacing without Automatically Finding
• Highlighting Found Text
• Using Search Text in the Replacement
• Finding Text Not Using a Particular Font
• Finding Text Boxes
• Copying Found Items to a New Document
• Available Caret Codes
• Finding Quoted Text in VBA
• Flagging Incorrect Commas in Numbers
• Setting Table Values to Three Decimal Places
• Replacing First-Line Indents with Tabs
• Removing HTML Tags from Text
• Finding Text Using a Specific Highlighting Color

Markup Tips

• Using Track Changes
• Protecting Tracked Changes
• Tracked Changes Notification when Opening
• Turning Off Document Protection
• Deleting All Comments
• Counting Changed Words
• Removing an Irritating Comment Icon

Character Formatting Tips

• Quickly Changing Font Sizes
• Changing Kerning
• Fixing Vertically Cramped Text
• Changing the Language Setting for All Document Text
• Understanding Underlines
• Formatting Currency
• Special Symbols Display Incorrectly
• Copied Text Prints in Gray
• Italic Typing Doesn't Stay Italic
• Applying Bold Italics
• Adding Vertical Lines at the Sides of a Word

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Forcing a Page Break Before a Paragraph
• Automatic Numbers with Leading Zeroes
• Hanging Indent Shortcut
• Decreasing a Paragraph's Indent
• Continuing Your Numbering
• Converting List Types
• Converting Lists to Text
• Hidden Numbered Items Still Affect Numbering
• Automatically Setting Right Leader Tabs
• Formatting All Headings At Once
• Formatting E-mail using AutoFormat
• Breaking Lines in E-mail
• Removing a Multilevel List
• Creating Sideheads
• Including a Leading Zero in Numbered Lists
• Reversing Type
• Flush Left and Flush Right On the Same Line

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Setting a Precise Custom Paper Size
• Ensuring Space Before at the Start of a Page
• Adding a Break to Your Document
• Adding a Background to Your Document

Styles and Templates Tips

• Defining Styles
• Deleting Unused Styles
• Turning Off Automatic Hyphenation for Parts of a Document
• Keeping the Styles Pane Open by Default
• Conditional Style Application
• Marking Directly Formatted Text
• Adding Text before Numbering
• Protect Your Document Templates
• Templates and Page Setup
• Listing the Settings in a Template
• Blocking a Theme Change

Tables Tips

• Drawing a Table
• Resizing Your Table
• Quickly Moving Your Table
• Nudging a Table
• Changing Cell Alignment
• Setting Consistent Column Widths in Multiple Tables
• Formatting a Table Using a Macro
• Increasing Space between Cell Borders and Cell Contents
• Shading Table Rows
• Noting Table Rows Containing a Character
• Finding Text at the End of a Table Cell
• Removing Whitespace from Table Cells
• Blank Page Printing after Table at End of Document
• How to Stop a Table Row from Splitting Over Two Pages
• Unwanted Numbering on Pasted Tables
• Copying Tables to a New Document

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Replacing Just in the Footnotes
• Using Both Find and Replace
• Using Styles
• Using Views
• Replacing Asterisks with a Footnote
• Moving Text to a New Footnote
• Printing or Extracting Footnotes
• Converting Individual Endnotes and Footnotes
• Changing the Way Endnotes Are Numbered
• Searching for Footnote and Endnote Marks
• Making Endnotes Part of the Footnotes
• Creating Unnumbered Endnotes

Header and Footer Tips

• Editing Headers and Footers
• Quickly Formatting Footers in Documents with Many Sections

Fields Tips

• Selecting a Field
• Inserting the Date Your Document Was Last Printed
• Generating Dynamic QR Codes
• Inserting Page Number Cross-References
• Showing a Dynamic Number Range in a Header
• Differences between SEQ and LISTNUM Fields
• Standard Text before a Sequence Number
• Special Characters in Fields
• Implementing a Dynamic Document Control Table
• Printing Index Field Codes

Printing Tips

• Printing All Open Documents
• Printing a Draft of a Document
• Turning Off Printing of Document Properties
• Printing Custom Properties
• Making Use of Extra Labels
• Specifying a Label Stock for Saved Documents
• Printing Non-Printing Characters
• Printing via Macro without Messages
• Printing in White
• Printing Duplex for a Portion of a Document
• Understanding Background Printing
• Errors while Printing

Envelope, Label, and Mail Merge Tips

• Controlling Page Numbers in Mail-Merged Documents
• Controlling Date Formats in a Mail Merge
• Getting Rid of Blank Labels in a Filtered Merge
• Changing the Return Address Location
• Maintaining Delivery Address Information for Envelopes
• Default Envelope Margins
• Sorting Inventory Labels
• Vertically Centering Labels

Graphics Tips

• Filling A Drawing Object
• Getting Higher Resolution Images
• Rotate a Graphic Using the Keyboard
• Adding Custom Page Border Art
• Understanding Fill Effects

Files Tips

• Changing the Default Document Format
• Document Shows as 'In Use' by Another User
• Saving Documents as Read-Only by Default
• Turning Off HTML Conversions
• Determining the Length of a Non-Document Text File
• Appending to a Non-Document Text File
• Determining If the End of a Text File Has Been Reached

Online Tips

• Editing a Hyperlink
• Changing Hyperlink Display Text
• Hyperlinks Not Found
• Generating a List of Hyperlink Targets
• Pop-up Windows in Word

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Making Ignore All Work for a Document on All Systems
• Spell Check Misses Misspelled Words
• Adding a Group of Words to the Custom Dictionary
• Expanding a Custom Dictionary

Tools Tips

• Sorting an Album List
• Recording an Audio Version of a Document
• Automatic AutoCorrect Exceptions for Beginning Sentences
• Inserting a Frame
• Stopping a Two-Word Phrase from being Flagged as an Error
• Insert a TOC without Upsetting Pagination
• Adjusting Location of a Heading Code in a TOC
• Code Appears in Both Headings and TOC Entries
• Code Appears in TOC Entries, but Not Headings
• An Important Caveat
• Numbering Equations
• Changing the Document Inspector's Comment Name
• Understanding Outlining in Word
• Changing Outline Structure
• Controlling How Body Text is Displayed
• Inserting the Line Number of a Bookmark
• Printing a Bookmark List with Contents
• Deleting Unused Bookmarks
• AutoText Entries for Multiple Users
• QuickWords in Word

Macros Tips

• Declaring Variables
• Understanding Subroutines
• Understanding the While...Wend Structure
• Defining a Shortcut for a Macro
• Detecting an Open Dialog Box
• Getting User Input in a Dialog Box
• Counting Words the Old Fashioned Way
• Checking for a Text Selection Length
• Inserting Text with a Macro
• Controlling the Italic Text Attribute
• Automating a Two-Column Section
• Finding Long Sentences
• Determining the Day of the Year
• Determining the Length of a String
• Adding Parentheses
• Deriving an Absolute Value
• Occurrences of a Text String within a Document
• Determining an ANSI Value
• Getting the Names of Defined Bookmarks
• Changing Lots of Title Properties
• Extracting INCLUDEPICTURE File Names
• Adding Automatic Time Stamps

Order Your WordTips Archives Today!

Each download item shown below includes the size of the download file. If you have a slow connection to the Internet, you can save precious time by ordering your archives on CD-ROM, instead of as a download.

The WordTips archives include PDF documents. To read these documents, you need to have either Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader on your system. Adobe Reader is free to download; click the link to get the latest version.

When you click on a "Buy Now" link above, that product is added to your shopping cart. You can then click the shopping-cart icon, in the lower-right corner, to begin the checkout process.

Important Ordering Notes:

If you live in a European Union (EU) country, please do NOT order the CD-ROM. Your order will go through, but I will need to then cancel the order. The reason is simple: The EU requires the procurement of a special shipping license (for the lack of a better term) that makes it onerous and economically untenable for a small company such as mine to ship physical products into EU countries. Please, order the archive download, instead. There are no restrictions (yet) on downloadable products.

If you live in a country that imposes value-added taxes (VAT) and you order a CD-ROM, you will need to pay the VAT when the order is delivered to you. I do not collect VAT at the time of ordering, nor is the VAT included in your purchase price.