Message #64864

[msmarieh]

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