Have you ever worked on a lengthy Word document, pasting text from other documents / programs, to then find your final document is a mishmash of different styles and formatting? Well there’s a simple way to avoid this. Here’s how: Paste the text at the appropriate point within your document; A clipboard icon with Paste […]
In Part 1 we looked at refining search results when seeking out specific content within your Word document and, in Part 2, the best ways of sifting through those results using the Navigation pane tabs (Headings | Pages | Results). Now let’s look at Advanced Find (Word’s legacy Find). Advanced Find enables even greater refinement
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Have you ever spent time setting up an Excel spreadsheet to then decide it would work better if your data ran horizontally rather than vertically? What do you do? Well, you could copy each cell individually, moving down the column as you go and pasting the data across your chosen row, but this is really
In Part 1 of this series we looked at refining search results when seeking out specific content within your Word document. Part 2 focuses on sifting through your results using the Navigation pane tabs (Headings | Pages | Results). If you’re a Word 2010 user, you have the same Navigation tabs, however shown as icons
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Section breaks are a bit of a mystery but if there’s one thing you should know about them, it’s this: section breaks control the formatting of the pages before it. This includes formatting such as: Headers / footers; Page orientations – portrait versus landscape; Page layouts, e.g. standard one column page versus two columns; Page numbering.
It’s all about the journey – such a lovely sentiment but when it comes to editing those long Word documents whilst facing looming deadlines, it’s not such an easy concept to fly with. And when you’re searching for specific content within your document, you need to find it quick! So here’s the first part (of
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