WordTips Ribbon 2024 Archive (Table of Contents)

WordTips Ribbon 2024 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 Unicode Characters
• Selecting Tabs in Dialog Boxes
• Default Units that Change
• Unwanted Graph Paper Effect
• Print Layout Zoom Settings
• Updating Automatic Links
• Calculating Average Word Length
• Making Draft View the Default View
• Word's Native Measurement Unit
• Keeping with British English
• Getting Audible Feedback
• Changing the Document Page Color
• Automatically Capitalizing Day Names
• Resetting a Single Shortcut Key
• Resetting All Shortcut Keys
• Displaying the Navigation Pane when Opening a Document
• Resetting Word

Editing Tips

• Quickly Changing Document Windows
• Better Ways to Insert Symbols
• Using the Insert Key to Insert Text
• Selecting the Entire Document with the Mouse
• Using Optional Hyphens
• Shortcut for Em and En Spaces
• Using an En Dash, by Default
• Inserting Dashes between Letters in Words
• Copying Red Text to a New Document
• Creating Compound Characters
• An Automatic Two Spaces After a Period
• Putting Character Codes to Work
• Checking for Matching Parentheses
• Font Changes when Pasting to Another Document
• Pasted Text Converted to a List
• Checking for a List of Phrases in a Document
• Compound Page Numbering
• Editing a Document with Many Pages
• How Your Document is Saved
• What Your Document Contains
• Potential Document Corruption
• Modify Word's Configuration
• Final Things to Check

Searching Tips

• Searching for Non-Black Text
• Finding and Replacing in Headers and Footers
• Getting Rid of Trailing Spaces in Footnotes and Endnotes
• Adding an Ellipsis to the Beginning of Some Paragraphs
• Applying Styles and Removing Characters using Find and Replace
• Changing the Position of the Dollar Sign
• Converting Text Inside Double Asterisks to Bold
• Changing the Formatting of All Instances of a Word
• Finding and Replacing Text Boxes
• Finding and Replacing when Only a Portion of the Text is Superscripted
• Replacing Some Smart Quotes
• Replacing the Space between the Last Two Words of Each Paragraph

Markup Tips

• Turning Track Changes Off for Selected Areas
• Stopping Automatic Changes from Being Tracked
• Pasting Text with Track Changes
• Making Sure Changes and Comments are Anonymous
• Copying, Moving, and Deleting Notes and Comments
• Pasting a Comment into Your Document
• Changing the User Name in Existing Comments
• Inserting Notes

Character Formatting Tips

• Copying Character Formatting
• Letters Turn Into Squares
• Changing the Color of a Tab's Leader Character
• Intelligent Title Case
• Using Very Large Font Sizes
• Automatically Formatting Text within Quotes
• Changing the Default Highlighting Color
• Creating Thin Spaces
• Shortcuts to Change Text Colors
• Default Font for Page Numbers
• Tracking Down Phantom TOC Entries
• Protecting Hidden Text

Paragraph Formatting Tips

• Adjusting Space Before
• Triple-Spacing Your Document
• Keeping Three Short Paragraphs on the Same Page
• Keep with Previous
• Ensuring Standardized Numbering
• Numbering on New Paragraph Doesn't Work as Expected
• Counting Lists
• Changing the Bullet Type
• Clearing All Tabs in a Document
• Adjusting Dot Leader Spacing
• Adding Automatic Lines
• The Line that Won't Go Away
• Borders on Multiple Paragraphs with Differing Indents
• Margins Automatically Move to Indent

Section and Document Formatting Tips

• Removing All Formatting from a Document
• Changing the Starting Page Number
• Maintaining Formatting when Inserting Documents
• Margins for All Documents Changing

Styles and Templates Tips

• How Word Applies Styles
• One Change Affects Everything
• Changing the Language for All Styles
• Copying Styles
• Using Copy and Paste
• Using the Format Painter
• Saving As a Template
• Using the Organizer
• Using a Macro
• Problems with TOC Styles
• Changing the Style Gallery
• Changing What Appears
• Ordering Styles
• Starting with a Clean Slate
• Future Documents
• Sizing What is Displayed in the Styles Gallery
• Bold Turning On by Itself
• Stopping Styles from Changing with Multiple Users

Tables Tips

• Erasing Table Lines
• Formatting Lots of Tables
• Distributing Table Rows Evenly
• Aligning Decimal Numbers in Tables
• Setting Decimal Tabs in a Table Using the Keyboard
• Changing the Direction of Table Contents
• Fitting Your Text In a Table Cell
• Removing Leading Spaces in a Table
• Getting Rid of Trailing Spaces in Table Cells
• Copying Fill Color in a Table
• AutoFitting Tables
• Counting Values in Table Cells
• What If a Table Row Cannot Be Displayed on One Page?
• Automatically Referencing Info Entered in a Table
• Footnotes for Tables
• Finding an Optimal Table Height
• Filling Table Cells with Sequential Numbers
• Preventing a Frame when Converting a Table to Text
• Turning Off Automatic Resizing of Tables by Default

Footnotes and Endnotes Tips

• Using Multiple References to the Same Footnote
• Deleting Footnotes and Endnotes
• Deleting All Footnotes
• Creating a Bibliography from Footnotes
• Adding Information after the Endnotes
• Suppressing Endnotes
• Getting Rid of Hard Returns before Endnotes
• Accessing Footnote Text in a Macro

Header and Footer Tips

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

Fields Tips

• Displaying Fields
• Deleting All Fields
• Printing Field Codes
• Inserting a Dynamic Word Count in Your Document
• A Quick-and-Dirty Word Count
• Inserting a Document's Path
• Conditional Calculations in Word
• Using the GotoButton Field
• Counting Fields in a Document
• Manual Line Breaks in STYLEREF Results
• Inserting the Text of a Cross-Reference
• Field Reference to Number of Prior Pages

Printing Tips

• Printing Odd or Even Pages
• Easily Changing Print Order
• Printing Close to the Edge
• Removing Blank Pages at the End of Your Document
• Printing a Font List
• Printing Style Sheets
• Automatic Font Color Won't Print Properly
• Two Printed Copies to Different Paper Trays
• Printing Reversed Images
• Printing an Outline
• Selecting Printing of Color Pictures
• Using Unique Document Serial Numbers
• Printing Personalized Copies of a Document
• Entire Document Won't Print
• Printing Document Properties

Envelope, Label, and Mail Merge Tips

• Setting the Return Address Used in Word
• Printing Just the Envelope
• Delivery Address Won't Print on Envelopes
• Printing Return Address Labels
• Creating Custom Labels
• Saving Money on Printing Labels
• Conditionally Adding a Period in a Mail Merge
• Formatted Merging
• Checkboxes in a Merged Document
• Printing Portions of Mail Merged Documents
• Getting Rid of Mail Merge Section Breaks
• Merging Only a Date from Access

Graphics Tips

• Duplicating Drawing Objects
• Wrapping Text Around a Graphic
• Wrapping Text around a Graphic in a Text Box
• Grouping Images Changes Text Wrap to Inline
• Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front
• Moving Images Behind Text
• Changing a Shape
• Understanding Grayscale Images
• Can't Edit Org Charts in Word
• Turning Off Borders for Data Series
• Problems Pasting Large Pictures
• Meeting Accessibility and Remediation Testing Requirements
• Reducing Document Size with Many Images
• Understanding Image Resolution
• Picking the Right Image Resolution for Your Needs
• How You Insert Pictures Matters
• A Note on Image Preparation
• Setting Image Specs in Word
• Inserting a Text Box
• Resizing a Text Box

Files Tips

• Use Filenames that Sort Properly
• Limits on Path Length in Word
• Combining Documents
• Finding Where the Current Document is Saved
• Finding Out the Folder for an Open Document
• Creating Multiple Blank Documents in One Step
• Lost Data in Word
• AutoSave and DOC Files
• Disk Full Error
• Turning Off Protected View for a Document
• Getting Input from a Text File

Online Tips

• Formatting of Removed Hyperlinks
• Non-Printing Hyperlinks
• Making Hyperlinks from Coded Text

Spelling and Grammar Tips

• Hiding Errors
• Spell Checking Not Catching a Misspelled Word
• Ignoring Punctuation in Names
• Catching Single-Letter Spelling Errors
• Resetting Spelling and Grammar Checking on Multiple Documents
• Configuring Spell Check for Internet Addresses
• Enforcing a Do-Not-Use Word List
• Using Older Spelling and Grammar Checking
• Compiling Misspelled Words from Documents

Tools Tips

• Hyphenating Your Document
• Finding Related Words
• Only Showing Readability Statistics
• Correcting Student Papers
• Updating Document Links
• Dictionary Shortcut Key
• Special Symbols Followed by a Non-Breaking Space
• Using AutoCorrect
• Using Building Blocks
• Punctuation Marks that Don't End Sentences
• Stopping EHR from Correcting
• Removing Confusion When Using AutoCorrect
• Smart Quotes in AutoCorrect Entries
• Transferring AutoCorrect Entries
• Unformatted AutoCorrect Entries
• Formatted AutoCorrect Entries
• Easier AutoCorrect Management
• Sorting Single-Column Addresses
• Cross-Reference to a Line Number
• Returning to the Source of a Cross-Reference
• Changing Existing Captions
• Using Multiple Tables of Contents
• Updating an Entire Table of Contents
• Incomplete Table of Contents
• Creating a TOC that Includes Specific Styles
• Stopping the TOC from Appearing in the Navigation Pane

Macros Tips

• Understanding the For ... Next Structure
• Editing Word's Built-in Commands
• Creating a String
• Swapping Two Strings
• Reversing a String
• Automatically Inserting Brackets
• Determining the Number of Bookmarks Defined in a Document
• Detecting if the Insertion Point is Inside a Bookmark
• Counting Open Document Windows
• Finding a Change in Typeface
• Adding Smart Quotes through Macro Text
• Saving in Document Format from a Macro
• Reversing All the Paragraphs in a Document
• Determining Differences Between Dates
• Automatically Inserting Tomorrow's Date
• Changing the Format of Existing Dates
• Persistent AutoFormat as You Type Settings
• Saving in a Macro Using a Desired File Name
• Character Frequency Count
• Automatically Running a Macro
• Removing All Text Boxes In a Document
• Random OLE Bookmarks
• Assigning a Macro to a Button in Your Text
• Making Macros Available without Using the Normal Template
• Testing if Word is Running on a Windows or Mac System

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