How to Create a Drop Cap in MS Word
Want to insert drop capitals for chapters or paragraphs using Microsoft Office Word 2003 or 2007? To create a drop cap in Word: Select the first letter in the paragraph. Select Drop Cap from the...
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How to Create ‘Vertical’ Text in MS Word
In MS Word, you can change the orientation of text from horizontal to vertical in a few quick clicks. This trick is useful if you want to have text run up the side of a page or along a column. To do...
View ArticleHow to Stop MS Word Crashing By Adding Images Correctly
Microsoft Word crashes for different reasons. One of the most common is related to images. While Microsoft Word lets you import different file formats, it struggles to support some more than others....
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How to change 100 screenshots with a single click
All the screenshots in your Word document are different sizes. What’s the quickest way to get them all the same size? Is there a shortcut? Yes! [ad#ad1] You’ve taking your screenshots and placed them...
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Guide to Fixing Corrupt MS Word Documents
How can you tell if your MS Word document is corrupt? For technical writers, discovering that your user guide has become corrupt is not good news. The effort you spent writing, editing and producing...
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Microsoft Word v Adobe Framemaker
This post needs an update as both Microsoft Word and FrameMaker have both improved in the past three years. So, bear with me as I work on the update. In the meantime, take out your red pen and see if...
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Using AutoCorrect To Fix Mistakes In MS Word
Do you keep making the same mistakes when typing? Microsoft Word has a couple of built-in features that fixes your mistakes as you type. It takes a bit of tweaking to get it right, but worth the effort...
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NEW – Quality Assurance Plan Templates (MS Word + Excel)
This week we created a new set of Quality Assurance Plan Templates. I sat templates as we developed more than just the MS Word template, but sample materials, and also seven pretty slick Excel...
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Where is the Character/Word Count in MS Word?
Want to find out how many characters or words there are in your document? There are two ways to find the Word count: Click the WORDS icon in the status bar at the bottom on the screen. It’s next to the...
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