Archive for the ‘Paragraph Formatting’ Category
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
A gutter is used when you will have a bound edge on your printouts. If your printout will be bound in a 3-ring binder, you would have a gutter of one-half to three-quarter inch. The margins would be measured in from the gutter, so your printed page would continue to ...
Posted in Margins, Page Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Printing, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 15th, 2008
The Format Painter is a tool that allows you to copy formatting from text to text, or from one graphic or table to another. You can copy formatting between documents, too. It will copy text and paragraph formatting. It's a tool I go to when numbered or bulleted lists don't ...
Posted in Bullets & Numbering, Cut, Copy & Paste, Paragraph Formatting, Shortcut Keys, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
The easy way to remember which keys are for Cut, Copy and Paste is in their location on the keyboard: X C and V are all next to each other. Add Ctrl and you know all you need to. Add to those that Ctrl + Z is Undo, and you ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Whenever you have formatting that will be used repeatedly within a single document or in different documents, that formatting could be saved as a Style. Here’s an example of a saving a simple, quick Style.
Select some text to format, something short for a heading or side heading. Apply the following ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Creating numbered lists in Word is terrifically easy; click the Numbering button, start typing the list, Word automatically numbers each item after you push Enter, push Enter twice (or click the Numbering button) to stop numbering.
But, you may occasionally need to create lists where the numbering needs to continue ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Here are a few tips for working with long tables.
Repeat Heading Rows
Word 2007 gives you the option of automatically repeating your heading rows on multiple-page tables.
Select the heading row to repeat.
In Table Tools, Layout tab, Data tab, click Repeat Header Rows.
If you make any formatting or text changes to ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Tables, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Follow up to: Practice: Making Labels in Word 2007
Once you have a sheet of mailing labels created, here are a few things you can do to improve their appearance.
Remember that labels are laid out in a table. You will be using table formatting to change the labels.
Be sure to click ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Paragraph Formatting, Projects & Practice, Tables, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Open Word 2007, and generate some paragraphs to work with. Do this by typing either:
=rand() (This will give you three paragraphs in English)
or
=lorem(4,5) (This will generate 4 paragraphs in Latin that are 5 sentences apiece.)
What you are going to do is apply each of the different indent styles ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
A Little Exercise with Tabs
Open Word, or start a new document.
Make sure the Tab button is on Left.
Click the 1" mark on the ruler; you should see the left tab.
Click on the Tab button to change the tab type to Center.
Click at the 3" mark to place a center ...
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