Archive for the ‘Screen Parts & Views’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
These shortcut keys can help you control the Word window without leaving your keyboard.
Maximize = Alt + F10
Restore = Alt + F5
Close or Exit = Alt + F4
Toggle between open files = Ctrl + F6
Previous window = Ctrl + Shift + F6
Next window = Alt + F6
Split document window horizontally ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
If your status bar isn’t giving you enough information, you can customize it by right-clicking anywhere on the Status bar. The Customize Status Bar menu will pop-up, select the items you’d like to see more of. Checked items are those already showing or potentially showing.
Note that the Shortcuts option will ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
This is a new feature that streamlines using old features in Word: it basically automates arranging two open documents when you want to view both at once.
To use it, open two files in Word, then click the View tab, and look in the Window group. There will be a ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Tabs
Back in the day, when we started our programs from the DOS prompt and when we used the function keys for everything, we knew how to use tabs. If you took a word processing class, you would spend weeks learning tabs, setting tabs, using tabs, counting characters to calculate where ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Indents
Indents can be used to control the distance between text and the left and right edges of a page. They also over-ride margins and can be applied to multiple or single paragraphs at a time. Each paragraph has only one set of indents that can be changed.
Types of Indents
First line ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Margins
The margin is the white space that frames your document. There are four margins that can be potentially changed: top, bottom, left, and right.
Margins and the Ruler
By using the ruler to change the margins you must change each margin separately by dragging the margin indicator on the ruler. The ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The ruler is a graphical way to change margins, indents and tabs in Word, but there are two contradictory problems with it. One, because it's on screen by default, users accidentally click on it and end up changing settings that didn't realize they changed. Problem two is that for users ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The difference between line spacing and paragraph spacing is about the paragraph marks. Every time the Enter key is pushed a paragraph is created; paragraph spacing adds space before or after a paragraph. A paragraph can be made up of multiple lines of text or just a few words.
Line spacing ...
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