Shortcut to View All Word Toolbars March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : How do I ?, Tips , add a commentHere’s a great trick to make Word easier to use.
You can customize Word so that is shows all the different toolbars on your screen. This saves you time looking for those special fuctions you’re always after. Of course, you can also turn off the ones you dont want later.
Here’s how to view all the toolbars.
1. Press ALT. Then let go of the ALT key. 2. Press SHIFT+F10.
This displays a list which shows you all toolbars available in MS Word.
Choose the ones you want. If you use Word frequently, experiment with the toolbars that best suit your needs.
How to go back to your last edit March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc, How do I ?, Writing, Troubleshooting, Cool Tricks, Tips , add a commentYou can tell Word to undo a mistake you’ve made and to change it back to what you wrote a few minutes ago.
If you’ve made a mistake when writing, for example deleted a few paragraphs by accident, the first reaction may be to panic. How do I get it back? Do I have to write it all again?
One way to do this is to use the Undo feature in Word. This lets you go back in time, step by step, until you find the first version of the text you wrote.
Here’s how it works: 
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In the Word document, press Ctrl and Z. This performs one Undo. It undoes the last edit you made to the document.
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Press Ctrl and Z. This performs another Undo. It undoes the second last edit you made.
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Continue to press Ctrl and Z to undo as many edits as you want.
When you’ve found the text that you were after, save the document, preferably with some naming convention that makes sense to you, for example, June Report Draft 2.
Rather than keeping one version of a document, especially one you’ll re-write many times, save it with a different version number as you work on it. This avoids losing all your work if the document crashes, which can happen if you repeatedly format a document and make changes to its layout.
At the end of the project, delete the initial drafts, then create a Gold Copy of the final draft and save it in the Archives.