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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
In a modified block letter, the date, closing, and signature start at the middle of the page; the rest of the letter is aligned with the left margin. The way to do this in Word is to set a left tab in the center of the margins. If you are ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Occasionally, you can run into text that is set up in tabbed columns, or with spaces between columns, or copied from a web page that would be easier to work with if it was set up as a table.
Example 1: Convert Tabbed Text to a Table
Start with a New, ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
If you’ve inserted a header or footer into a Word document, then made some of the pages in the document landscape, you might find that the header/footer retains it’s layout from the portrait pages, that what should be on the right side isn't and what should be in the center, ...
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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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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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