Word maintains a few pieces of personal information with each document file you save. Getting rid of this information can be a pain, unless you use the configuration setting that helps remove the information for you.
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If you don't like where your toolbars are located, just move them around.
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Justified text doesn't always produce the best-looking results. Here's how to avoid some of the choppiness that can occur.
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When you use Word to create your index, you'll normally only include a page number in the index. If you want to create an index that includes section numbers, Word can handle it using the two methods described in this tip.
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If you've got a lot of short footnotes in a document, you might be looking for a way to save space by "crunching up" the footnotes by running them together in a single paragraph on each page. This tip explores why this can't be easily done in Word.
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Do you need to find cells that are formatted with a particular color? How you accomplish this task depends on your version of Excel.
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Simple page numbering is easy to add to your documents. More complex numbering (such as two numbering schemes in the same document) are a different story. This tip provides some guidance on how you can approach your more complex numbering needs.
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Want to search for text that may appear in a text box rather than in a regular worksheet cell? You can only perform the operation using a macro, and a couple of such approaches are provided in this tip.
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Do you want to transfer fonts from one computer system to another? It is relatively easy to do, but there is one important item to which you need to pay attention.
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Want to convert the text in a cell so that it wraps after every word? You could edit the cell and press Alt+Enter after each word, but there's an easier way using a formula.
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When Word creates automatic backups of your documents, you may not like where Word stores them. This naturally leads to the question of where the files can be stored, as addressed in this tip.
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Before you go about deleting rows and columns helter-skelter, it is a good idea to determine if there is anything in the row or column you are going to delete. Here's the quick way to figure out whether a row or column is empty.
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If you need to find some synonyms for a specific word in your document, here's how you can do it. (Hint: All you need to do is right-click.)
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Got a table that you use over and over again? One way you can make quick work of such repetition is to save the table in an AutoText entry. This tip shows how easy this is.
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When you instruct Word to tell you how many words are in a document, it treats hyphenated words or phrases as if they are a single word. This tip examines why this is so and provides a way that you can force Word to give you a word count that "ignores" the hyphens.
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Sometimes it may be helpful for a macro to know exactly where it is being executed. This tip provides a way that you can build such functionality into a macro.
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Need to have a series of documents customized for individual users? Mail merge may be overkill, but the macro presented in this tip will help make short work of the individualized printouts.
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When creating an e-mail address hyperlink using the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, Excel allows you to enter a subject for the message to be created by the link. If you want to also specify some body text, you need to use the techniques described in this tip.
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If you save different versions of your document using the versioning feature of Word, you'll want to know how you can go back and review the different versions you've saved. This tip illustrates how easy it is to open up a previous version of a document.
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