Archive for the ‘Fields & Quick Parts’ 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 »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
A question that recently came in through the comments is:
I need to number a Word 2007 document in the following manner
Cover page - no number and I don't want to use the default Word cover page
Section A….i, ii, iii, iv etc
Section B Page 1 of 55
I can do most ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Page Numbering, Sections, Word 2007 | 7 Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2008
If you use page numbering or have the current date insert automatically, you are using fields. Many Word users rely on manually inserting fields to automate their documents, and use fields to insert the file name and path, the total number of pages, bibliographies, table of contents or indexes, or ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, File Related, Headers & Footers | 9 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
These directions will give you the steps to add form fields (Content Controls) to a Word document. The final, filled-in document could be saved, printed or emailed.
First, if you don't see a Developer tab, that needs to be turned on. Go to Office button, Word Options, and click the Popular ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Practice, Printing, Projects & Practice, Tables, Templates, Word 2007 | 33 Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Hyperlinks make it easy for you to reference and link to other files from your original Word document. By adding a clickable link in a digital copy of the document, a reader can easily jump from the link to the referenced file. Any hyperlinks added into your document will continue ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | 43 Comments »
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Here’s how to have text (could be a header or footer, heading, or title) run along the left or right side of a page, while the page text runs horizontally.
Start with either a blank Word document or the document you want to work on open.
The vertical text will be made ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Text Formatting, Text boxes, Word 2007 | 7 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 »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
You can add a time to a document just like you could add the date. In the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Date & Time (or if you are in a Header or Footer, Header & Footer Tools, Design tab, Insert group). In the list of Available formats: ...
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