Word 2003 Tip – How to Zoom in and out of your documents

June 24, 2009

You know the feeling. You’ve been working hard on the computer all day. It gets hard to read anything. You could change the text size by using the Zoom control’s drop-down menu on the Toolbar… but even that’s too much hard work. 

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How to Change the Windows Desktop Theme

June 23, 2009

Like its brother-in-arms, the Screensaver, the Windows Desktop Themes eat away at your computer’s memory. Unless you really need them, uninstall! You’ll have a much quicker and more reliable machine.To change or remove desktop themes, follow these steps:  On the Desktop, right-click and click Properties.  Click the Themes tab.  3. In the Theme box, select [...]

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Word 2003 Tip – How to Change the Background Color in a Word Document

June 23, 2009

The bright white text area of most word processors can become a quite tiring on the eyes after a few hours. You can of course jiggle the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor but a far better solution is to give your blank pages a light grey tint.  Open Word so that you can [...]

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Word Tips on Twitter: 2009-06-22

June 22, 2009

Do you get this error message when submitting stories to Digg.com http://bit.ly/17ysOO # FYI: Achilles heel in Amazon Kindle – KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy http://bit.ly/ALgVs #

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How to Compare Fonts in MS Word

June 22, 2009

If you are constantly fussing over fonts for your documents then there’s a very handy feature in Windows that allows you to quickly compare typefaces according to style and design.

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How to Fix MS Word After It Crashes – Fix the Normal.dot file

June 22, 2009

How to Fix MS Word After It Crashes – Fix the Normal.dot file

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How to get rid of Crop Marks in Microsoft Word 2002 / 2003 / 2007

June 21, 2009

Crop marks are markers that appear in the top left and right of your Microsoft Word documents.
These are called ‘crop marks’. To remove these, you have to disable Asian language support.
This often appear after you open a file which has an Asian language setting; Microsoft Office might activate this setting to display embedded fonts. It’s just trying to be helpful. The thing is: how do you remove it? When you open a document in Microsoft Word, margin marks or crop marks may appear on each corner of the page.

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Word 2003 Tip – How to Search for and Remove Text Formatted As Hidden

June 21, 2009

In Word documents, it is possible to format text as hidden. Because hidden text can contain information you may not want to distribute, you may want to unhide and remove it. To remove all of the text in a document that is formatted as hidden, perform the following steps: On the Tools menu, click Options. [...]

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How to count the number of words in a technical document

June 20, 2009

If you want to know how many words there are in a paragraph, or block of copy, select the text and click on Word Count.  To create a keyboard shortcut to Word Count:  From the Tools menu, click Customize.  Select the Command tab and highlight Tools in the list of Categories.  Scroll down the list [...]

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How to create Giant Sized Fonts in MS Word

June 20, 2009

How to create Giant Sized Fonts in MS Word

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Word Tip – How to Automate Inserts into Technical Documents

June 19, 2009

If you frequently need to insert a word, line or block of text into MS Word documents you can easily automate the process with a simple keyboard shortcut.  Highlight the text and press Alt + F3, to create an AutoText entry, then give it a name or accept the default that appears in the dialogue [...]

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Word Tip – How to scroll through Technical Documents

June 18, 2009

Word Tip – How to scroll through Technical Documents

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Dual Screen Wallpapers

June 17, 2009

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How to Resize Fonts in Word 2003

June 17, 2009

To increase or decrease the font size in a Word document, follow these steps:

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How to Use Replace and Find in Word

June 17, 2009

What’s the quickest way to delete text?  Forget the backspace or delete keys. Instead, try this: Select the block of text you want to delete and CONTINUE TYPING. Word automatically deletes the text when you start to type. 

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