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Introduction A common question that comes up is about the difference between multilevel lists and list styles. Stuart discussed these two list types in his post The Many Levels of Lists . What I hope to do in this blog post is an in-depth look at the
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Hello! My name is Stephen Oliver and I'm a programming writer at Microsoft. From time-to-time, I'll post Office developer-oriented tips—specifically around Word. Today's post is simply to alert you to a great resource for sharpening your Office automation
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Table Styles are my favorite type of Style in Word. They allow you to quickly and consistently format the table itself (e.g. borders, shading, etc.), the content within the table (E.g. line spacing, font color, font size, etc.), and they can also can
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In my first post on WordMail , I talked about how we fully integrated Word within Outlook for reading and writing emails. From a feature perspective, Word and WordMail are functionally the same. In other words, you have access to much of the same features
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Intro Building off of my last Behind the Curtain post , this post will dig into the "other 20%" and specifically answer the following three questions on Styles: How do Document Defaults relate to the Normal Style? How do Style Sets relate to Styles? How
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Intro: What's a Style In Word, a style defines a set of formatting properties that are indirectly applied to characters, paragraphs, list, or tables. Instead of directly applying bold, then 14 point font, and then red to text, you can use a style to indirectly
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Note: This is the first of a series of "behind the curtain" posts where I'll share some of the inner workings of Word. These types of post will be less "tippy" and more "techie." While they will likely not be as immediately applicable as my traditional
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