Use Find/Replace to Format Documents in Word 2010
Posted on September 7, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | Leave a Comment
One of the little secrets of Word 2010 is the Format option that comes with the Find/Replace feature; with it, you can format certain parts of your document automatically, quickly and easily.
To see how, bring up a document or create a dummy document that you can use for testing formatting options. Here’s the one we will be using for demonstration purposes:
The first thing of course is to find the format options; to do that, first click on the Replace icon on the main ribbon:
Create and Use Automatic Macros in Word 2010
Posted on September 6, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | Leave a Comment
One thing many people may not know about Word is that it has several standard macros that run automatically depending on the circumstance.
For those that don’t know what macro’s are, they are Word commands that are stored in a file and executed one after the other, like a little program. As an example, if you find yourself creating a lot of tables, you could write yourself a macro to create a table, choose a style, format it and even add some initial data. Then each time you need to do a new table, you could just run the macro.
How to Write Equations in Word 2010
Posted on August 29, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | 1 Comment
One of the nice new features of Word 2010 is the update and expansion of the Equation Editor; where before writing equations in Word required the use of add-ons, and generally a lot of fooling around trying to get your equations to look just write in Word, now, it’s as simple as jumping into the Equation Editor.
To use the Equation Editor, click on the Insert tab on the main ribbon; find the Equation icon all the way on the far right on the ribbon:
How to Use Word 2010′s Advanced Sorting Features
Posted on August 26, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | Leave a Comment
One little known feature of MS Word 2010 is a sorting facility; a simple, easy to use feature that can come in very handy when all you need to do is a quick sort of a simple list.
To see how the sort feature works, type in a quick list of names, like this:
Highlight the whole list, and then click on the sort icon (it’s on the main ribbon):
You should get something like this:
How to Use Text Boxes in Word 2010
Posted on August 21, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | Leave a Comment
One of the nice things about Microsoft Word is that even the mundane features get little improvements the longer they hang around, and nowhere is that more apparent than with textboxes, something that Word has had for years. Now however, updates to Word 2010 that effect graphics and text in general, also apply to text boxes, to see how start by clicking the Insert tab on the main ribbon, then click the Text Box icon:
Create and Use Endnotes and Footnotes in Word 2010
Posted on August 15, 2011 - Filed Under MS Office Tips | Leave a Comment
Endnotes and Footnotes are something that have existed in various ways through most of MS Word’s history, but with each iteration it seems it gets easier to use them, though many people still seem using them as too difficult.
To create and use either Endnotes or Footnotes, you first need to understand the difference between the two: Footnotes go at the bottom of the page from which they are referenced, while Endnotes go at the end of the document.
To see how to create and use them both, first create a dummy document for testing, something like this: