Archive for the ‘Text Formatting’ Category
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 »
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 »
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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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 »
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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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
With the cursor anywhere in the table to be converted, look in Table Tools, then the Layout tab, Data group. Click Convert to Text. In the Convert Table to Text box, use the Separate text with option to layout the converted text.
Paragraph marks will make the text from each ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A quick way to add a little graphic enhancement to a heading (or title) in a document is to add a bottom border to it.
As with all Word projects, it will work best if you type up your text first, and then apply any formatting (like borders).
Creating the Practice Word ...
Posted in Borders & Shading, Practice, Projects & Practice, Styles, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
There is a PDF download available, Learning to Use Word 2007 - Poster Project.
It was written for users that are new to Word 2007 or those that haven't used formatting and graphics very much. It is 12 pages long, with clear directions and images to work from. It walks you ...
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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 + ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Find & Replace, Shortcut Keys, Special Characters & Symbols, Tables, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | 7 Comments »
