Secrets of microsoft word

On the desktop, click on the shortcut of the desired program with the right mouse button and select the "Properties" section. In the dialog box, find the tab "Shortcut". In the field "Quick call" enter the desired key.

Once in the last tab, you can set a digital signature, restrict or prohibit file editing, set a password. But be careful: if you forget the password, you will not be able to have access the document again. If radical ways of protecting the document are not needed, try to limit yourself to adding a watermark: go to the "Design" tab, then "Page Background" and "Watermark".

The standard Word package includes four templates, but no one forbids creating your own custom watermark. Many Word users need to translate texts from one language to another, and often use online solutions like Prompt, Google Translate, etc.

Word will save the style into the template. You can set your document to use Word styles, which will reduce a lot of the extra spacing that the Word styles have built into them. One generally unpopular change that Microsoft introduced with Word and carried forward to Word is a new paragraph default style that includes excessive amounts of space between paragraphs.

This action applies the Word paragraph styling to the document, causing the excess spacing to disappear. If all you want is a plain text file, or if you prefer a clean document that you can format from scratch, you can remove the existing formatting quickly and easily. If you want to format a document from scratch, use the Clear Formatting command to strip unwanted styles and formatting from the text. Select all of the text in the document by pressing Ctrl-A , and then press Ctrl-Space to remove any special formatting.

If the text paragraphs have styles associated with them, the styles will remain in place, but any additional formatting will vanish. If you press Ctrl-Q , all styles will return to their original look. So if someone has altered a styled paragraph by, say, changing its alignment, your key command will undo that alignment change, and the paragraph will revert to the style defaults.

To get rid of absolutely everything, press Ctrl-Shift-N to set the entire document to normal style. Alternatively, you can click the Home tab, display the Styles Gallery drop-down menu, and click Clear Formatting.

As I mentioned earlier, Word saves styles with a document. On top of that, you can copy styles from one document to another; all you need to do is launch the Document Template Organizer. To do that, however, you need the Developer tab to be visible on the Ribbon.

Look over in the right panel, place a check next to Developer , and click OK. When the Organizer dialog box appears, click the Styles tab. Click the Close File button below the right pane, so that you can open another document in this pane. Learn everything you need to know to create attractive and professional documents in Microsoft Word. In just a few lessons, you'll harness the power of Word and do more than just open a document and start typing. Throughout this course, you'll learn insider secrets and time-savers that some advanced users don't know about.

Unlocking the Secrets of Microsoft Word teaches how to apply text formatting; work with bullets and numbering; control page setup with margins, columns, headers and footers; work with images, charts and diagrams; work in track changes mode; compare documents; and more! Why is it that I create a newsletter… and I have inserted solid colored shapes… and over the shapes I have images, but many times when I save the document the solid colored shapes come forward hiding the images which have been pushed backward.

I then go and select one by one all the solid colored shapes and change the order to send them all backwards… one by one. I save the document and many times they revert back to the front hiding my images once again. How does one insert a paragraph instead of a page in Word?

Life since discovering the Snipping Tool has been so much sweeter! When table is copied from MS Word and pasted in Excel, number figures does not come in number format. I have to do it manually to change from general to number format one-by-one.

Is there any shortcut for this problem? Hi Liz, there is no such facility in MS Word. You can use Auto Insert and Auto Correct, but using these features would be more of a task than typing the names manually. Guess, good old copy-paste method is probably the best in this scenario. Yes Liz, you can do it thru predictable text. Go in settings, typing, hardware keyboard and switch on show text suggestion as I type.

One common problem i face is, my attorneys frequently come across certain words and incorrect use of punctuation marks such as to use comma or period inside quotes instead of putting it outside which they do not want to see in the application.. Can u pls help?? In the find string and replace string you should write CHR 34 instead of double quote mark. That should solve the issue and the macro will be able to find quotation marks as well.

However I need to modify that image. How can I select all copies of the image there are probably a hundred of them and replace it with the modified version.

Hi Bre, I have written an article to answer your question. See how to find and replace images in a document. While creating a document, how can I lock the 2nd page that is already edited so that a change on the 1st page will not affect the 2nd page? How can I achieve this? If I understood your question properly, I think all you need to do is to insert a page break at the end of the first page.

This will keep the content of second page static until you fill the first page. In a Word table I want to increase the date by 1 day in each cell. Hi Bryan! As you know, it can be easily done in Excel. The table has 7 consecutive days across the top. I would have thought there was a simple way to just enter the first day and have the next 6 days magically appear without extra effort. I can easily do this in Excel but thought Word would be able to do this as well, as it is rather simple.

Hello again Bryan, In such a situation, I think the easiest way would be to put Calendar Controls in seven cells. This control will not auto increment the date, but it will make the manual date input easier.

The control icon will appear in the Quick Access Toolbar. Click it to insert it at desired place. In MS Word I have 15 page document. Consider that I was typing in 15th page and then I saved and closed the document. The next day when I open the document, it should open for me in 15th page instead of first page.

Whenever I open a document I need to open the last page I worked. Do we have any shortcut or option to do the same? Each and every time I hate scrolling to last page.

Please provide me some solution. Hello, yes, it is possible to go back to the last editing position. I have a detailed article on this option. I have one word file of pages. In this file there are some tables. I want to convert these tables into images. I already did this by using ms office picture manager in which there is a facility of taking photo of selected portion by clicking on camera icon.

But now I have forgotten. For taking screenshots of the tables and then use them as images, you can use Snipping Tool which comes as part of Windows. Search for Snipping Tool in your programs. I wish to make multiple word file for different people and the content being the same.

What is the fastest possible way to do so. Example: Mr xyz, …… Content …… There are like 40 people i want to address, which means copy pasting 40 words files and replacing the names. Is there a way to do so faster? Well, Prateek, the proper way of doing this is to use Mail Merge.

But as you have just 40 files to make, I guess the effort of setting up mail merge could be more than saving the the same file 40 times with different names. Interesting question. Hi there! It may also be a command name that already exist. In such cases, user-chosen names are not allowed. Change the name and then try again to save your macro.

How about using good-old copy and paste technique? In addition after you do it once you now have two lines, copy both and paste now you have 4 lines, copy four and paste and you now have 8 lines, copy the 8 and now you have