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How to Find and Remove Section Breaks

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Here are a couple ways to get rid of section breaks. Keep in mind that by removing section breaks you can affect things like headers and footers, section-based page numbering, different margins or a different page orientation. If You Know Where the Section Breaks Are And there aren't many of them. Turn ...

Word 2007 Q&A: Check Boxes, Hard Spaces, Find & Replace

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Where do I find the check box for forms in Word 2007? Go to the Developer tab, Controls group, Legacy tools, it’s under the Legacy Forms. What is the keyboard shortcut to go to the next paragraph? Ctrl + up or down arrow. Why use a hard (or nonbreaking) space (Ctrl + Shift + ...

Use Reading Highlight to Bring Words to Light in Word 2007

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The Reading Highlight can be found in the Find and Replace box. What it can do for you is highlight every instance of a word or phrase in your document and make proofing or review of a printout (or onscreen) a little easier. In the Home tab, Font group choose a ...

Using Find and Replace with Formatting and Special Characters in Word 2007

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Find and Replace can do more than handle the standard characters from the keyboard. It can also look for hidden formatting symbols, spaces, special characters, and formatting. The More>> button in the Find and Replace box gives more options to use with Find and Replace. Have you ever pasted some text ...

Using Find and Replace with Text in Word 2007

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Many programs have a variation on Find, if not on both Find and Replace. Find (by itself) allows you to direct a program to look for and stop at specific characters. In most every program, Ctrl + F starts Find. Replace takes finding the specific characters a step further, and allows ...