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It's super easy to put generic text into a Word document for all of your filler text needs (especially useful during demos and presentations). Just start a new paragraph and: Type "=rand()" and press Enter for three paragraphs of text Type "=lorem()"and
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I'm a big fan of Excel's ability to freeze rows and columns. If I'm looking at a large set of data, I can keep some of the rows and columns fixed and scroll though the rest. After all, this is pretty much useless: …while this gives me the context I need
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I'm a fan of Tim Ferris , author of The Four Hour Work Week . Given this, you can imagine my horror when I found out via this video that Tim doesn't do much of his text editing in Word. Not big on documents (in the traditional sense of the word) and more
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As discussed in this previous post , table of contents and the Document Map are designed to work best with documents that use styles. Styles not only apply a look and feel to a document, but also provide semantic structure. For example, applying a Heading
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Note: This post is an extended reply to Ilya's comment on my last post If you've ever worked document with more than one person, then you've likely had to deal with this type of nonsense: Sally likes to emphasize text by making it 13 point and bold, Sam
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If you haven't seen the show Alias , I highly recommend it. My fiancée [formerly referred to as my girlfriend…picture from the big day below J ] and I are about half way through the first season, and it's so good that I've decided to become an operative
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Have you ever wanted to make some text in your document look like other text in your document? Or maybe you made a picture look just right in last week's status report and really don't want to start from scratch on the picture in this week's status report.
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In Word 2007, when you end a sentence with an ellipsis…i.e. you tap the period key four times…you get an ellipsis and a period, not four periods. Ellipsis and a period : I wanted an easy way to refer to specific lines in the document during conversations.
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If you need something to watch over lunch, check-out the following new Word 2007 How To videos from Office Online [text below reused from Office Online]: Add and remove page breaks : Frustrated with the layout of your document? By taking advantage of
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I recently had a friend email me a Word document where just about every line was part of a numbered list. When I asked my friend why he did this he replied: "I wanted an easy way to refer to specific lines in the document during conversations. Now I can
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While I’m obviously a fan of Word 2007, there are only a few things in Word 2007 that literally left me speechless the first time I experienced them. Picture Styles are one of those things. It’s hard to do justice to the simplicity and impact of this
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Hi everyone. My name is Leslie Cole and I write help content for Word. This is my first blog entry, and it was prompted by a number of customer questions about the subject of widows and orphans. Let me know if I answered your question; I look forward
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We saw some questions around columns and text wrapping in Word popping-up in the blogosphere recently, so in today's Q&A: How do I layout part of my document in columns? How do I get my figures/images/objects on the right side of my document and the
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Thanks to some great comments from Jeremy and PamC on the Who is "Author?" post it looks there are a few additional points worth making about the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Document Inspector. Since this is only mentioned briefly in Who
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Personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot-button issue these days. If you've ever had your identity stolen, you'll understand why. Personally, I spent about six months clearing up my identity being stolen about a year ago. Lame. If are concerned
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