Archive for the ‘Building Blocks’ Category
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Here the positive things about Quick Parts:
It can be anything you use repeatedly in Word documents, and can be made up of any document part, like graphics, text, tables or fields, or any combination of those things.
Nothing to remember, you can insert them through a menu.
Easy to create ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The title is not meant to be deceiving: Word 2007 doesn't come with this, but you can set it up yourself. Here are the directions to customize Word so you can have the "two-click insert for file name and path" that many folks feel is missing from Word 2007. Yes, ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Practice, Word 2007 | 49 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
An Alignment Tab is a way to fix the problem of a document’s margins changing, but the header and footer margins not changing.
The Alignment Tab is found in the Header & Footer Tools, Design tab, Position group. To use it, move into a header or footer, click the Alignment Tab ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Headers & Footers, Margins, Page Numbering, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Themes (found in the Page Layout tab, Themes group) allow you to apply a consistent look to Word documents, and to easily change the overall look if needed. Word 2007 comes with a variety of themes, extra themes can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site, and you can create ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Styles, Word 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
AutoText can be a handy feature for when you have lots of boilerplate text to use in a project. It’s a lot like using Quick Parts, but AutoText can only be located on the Quick Access Toolbar, so it’s always visible with changing tabs (you could put a shortcut to ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Word 2007 | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
You have modified styles, building blocks (such as cover pages or headers), or other content that is stored in “Building Blocks.dotx”. Do you want to save changes to “Building Blocks.dotx”?
What this means is that you added, deleted, or changed something that is saved in the Building Blocks.dotx file. The Building ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Page Numbering, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Here are the steps to assign a keyboard shortcut to an AutoText entry, which is part of the Building Blocks in Word 2007. First, you will insert the file name and path field, then save it as an AutoText Building Block, and finally assign a keyboard shortcut to use with ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Shortcut Keys, Word 2007 | 15 Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Inserting Page Numbers
There are two ways to insert page numbers in Word, either as Building Blocks or as field codes.
Page numbers are part of the Building Blocks of Word: what that really means is that there are a number of pre-formatted, pre-positioned page numbers to use. The gallery of page ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Fields & Quick Parts, Page Formatting, Page Numbering, Word 2007 | 32 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
You also might want to look at
Word 2007 DIY: Insert a Footer with File Name & Path in Two Clicks and Word 2007: How to Assign a Keyboard Shortcut to the Insert File Name & Path.
You can use a field code to show a document’s file name and path ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Fields & Quick Parts, File Related, Word 2007 | 98 Comments »
