Title: What is your best tip for using Microsoft Word?
Post by: susans on May 13, 2008, 04:25:50 pm
What is your best tip for using Microsoft Word? (don't be shy, even if it just Ctrl C for copy, let us know!)
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Post by: itsme_calista on May 13, 2008, 04:30:33 pm
I'll have a think on it but for me the first thing I do is to change the toolbars to suit the functions I need. I always add "shrink to fit" and "envelopes and labels" buttons to the toolbar.
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Post by: msmarieh on May 13, 2008, 05:04:39 pm
Oh, gosh I have so many great tips in Word, I wouldn't know where to start. I've taught entire classes on it and I am in the process of writing a book on the subject (great tips for Office, not just Word).
I would say Find and Replace - which is so much more powerful than people realize... You can replace white space (i.e. when you bring over text from an email and it has a thousand tabs and spaces in every line). You can replace the yellow highlighter some helpful coworker used to make comments (instead of using Word's built in comment feature). You can replace all occurences of a font with a different font and so much more.
My other favorite tips include:
Format Painter - which fixes automatic numbering when you want paragraphs between the numbered lists that are NOT numbered and
Styles - a vastly underutilized feature that allows you to use so many more functions in Word (table of contents, document map) and gives your larger documents consistency.
Marie
I would say Find and Replace - which is so much more powerful than people realize... You can replace white space (i.e. when you bring over text from an email and it has a thousand tabs and spaces in every line). You can replace the yellow highlighter some helpful coworker used to make comments (instead of using Word's built in comment feature). You can replace all occurences of a font with a different font and so much more.
My other favorite tips include:
Format Painter - which fixes automatic numbering when you want paragraphs between the numbered lists that are NOT numbered and
Styles - a vastly underutilized feature that allows you to use so many more functions in Word (table of contents, document map) and gives your larger documents consistency.
Marie
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Post by: gee4 on May 14, 2008, 08:22:43 am
Everyone forgets the right click option on your mouse. I always use it especially when assisting others who are not au fait with Office, they appreciate any tips I give them.
The other day I assisted a co-worker - whilst using Outlook she seemed to lose the 'From' field in her Deleted Items. All I did was right click in the menu area, selected field chooser, and dragged and dropped the 'From' field where she needed it.
The other day I assisted a co-worker - whilst using Outlook she seemed to lose the 'From' field in her Deleted Items. All I did was right click in the menu area, selected field chooser, and dragged and dropped the 'From' field where she needed it.
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Post by: Jackie G on May 14, 2008, 07:46:26 pm
The F4 key which repeats your last action - invaluable!!
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Post by: diamondlady on May 15, 2008, 03:01:22 pm
That little undo arrow has saved me more times than I care to count.
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Post by: Katie G on May 15, 2008, 04:16:29 pm
Seconding the "Undo" arrow. I'd have been fired by now without it!
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Post by: JessW on May 15, 2008, 06:22:51 pm
I would have to say smell-checker!(get-it?) It may have its bad moments, but all in all I like it!
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Post by: ControlledChaos on May 16, 2008, 10:23:18 am
I'd have to say AutoCorrect, the amount of times I spell the as hte or and as nad...........
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Post by: izzy53 on June 18, 2008, 10:37:48 pm
I love Autotext; I love to show people how it works and how much time they can save by using it.
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Post by: peana on June 27, 2008, 08:17:50 am
shift f3 for changing case when you suddenly realise you've hit the caps lock.
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Post by: lucie33 on June 28, 2008, 03:47:04 pm
THANK YOU!
I knew there was a way of doing that, but I couldn't think what it was. I had exactly that problem the other day, and ended up retyping a couple of lines while grumbling that I'd forgotten how to change it!
I knew there was a way of doing that, but I couldn't think what it was. I had exactly that problem the other day, and ended up retyping a couple of lines while grumbling that I'd forgotten how to change it!