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Welcome to the first issue of Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks, a monthly supplement to our very popular ComputerFAQs newsletter. Many of our readers have expressed an interest in receiving more tips and tricks about their favorite applications. So, we've put together a series of Tips & Tricks newsletters to supplement ComputerFAQs. If you wish to receive our other newsletters, including our Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, Access, and many other Tips & Tricks newsletters, please let us know online at www.ComputerFAQs.net/signup. Font Sizes Want to change the font of your text to something other than a number on the font drop-down list? You can! Just type in the size you want and press ENTER. For example, you can go from 28 to 36 points on the font menu, but if you want - for example - 30 point, just type in "30" in the box, and press ENTER. As a related tip, if you highlight some text, you can use the CTRL-[ and CTRL-] buttons (left and right square brackets) to increase and decrease the font size incrementally, respectively. For example, press the CTRL-] button, the font size will go up one point. This allows you more control to visually increment and decrement the font size. It's a similar function to the Font-Size-Up and Font-Size-Down buttons in PowerPoint. Keep Words Together Have you ever wanted to keep words together on a line, but Word automatically pulled some of them down to the next line because of spacing? Try this: instead of just hitting the spacebar between words, try using a "non-breaking space" by pressing CRTL-SHIFT-SPACEBAR. This will force the words to stay together on the same line. Close All If you work with multiple Word documents at the same time, and you'd like to close all of them, or save all of them, try this neat trick: hold the SHIFT key down while you click on the File menu option on your menubar. Notice the two new options available: Close All and Save All. You can now use these two options accordingly.
Opening Documents There are several ways to open documents in Word. Starting
with the easiest, you can click on the File > Open option from the
menubar. This will take you to your documents folder (usually the
same as your My Documents folder). You can also click on the Open
You can also access recently used documents from Windows by clicking on the Start Button and then selecting Documents. You'll see a list of the last several files you've accessed - whether they're Word Documents, Excel Workbooks, or anything.
Finally, if you use certain documents over and over again, you can create Shortcuts to them on your Windows Desktop or your Quick Launch Bar, so they're ready to access at a moment's notice. We've put together a free training video to show you how to create shortcuts on your desktop.
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Changing Bullets If you're unhappy with the default bullets you get when you click on the Bullets button, you can change them. Simply highlight all of your bulleted text, right-click on it somewhere and select Bullets & Numbering and make sure you're on the Bulleted tab. You'll get a dialog box where you can select from various styles of bullets. Once you click on a bullet style, you can also click on the Picture or Customize buttons on the bottom to change that bullet with almost anything you can think of! Default Documents Folder If you save your documents somewhere other than your My Documents folder (like a file server folder), you can set your default document location so that when you click to Open a document, you're placed right in the proper folder. Just click on Tools > Options. Click on the File Locations tab. Click on Documents. Click on the Modify button. Browse to the location you would like to have as your default Documents folder, and click on OK. Now, whenever you go to open or save a document, that's the folder you'll start off in. Learn Microsoft Word If you would like to learn more about Microsoft Word, we have several training options available for everyone - from beginner to advanced users. All of our courses start out with the basics: formatting documents, setting up margins and columns, and so on. We then move into the intermediate topics such as mail merge, graphics, and paragraph formatting. Finally, we cover many advanced topics, such as macros, templates, forms, and such. By the end of our Word courses, you'll know just about all you need to know to use Word with mastery. We have several different formats in which you can learn Word. The choice is up to you - whatever style of learning you feel would suit you best. You can learn in our Training Center here in Amherst NY, or on your own computer right from your home or office - anywhere in the world! Classroom Based, Word Complete Course. This is our traditional instructor-led, sit-down class where each student gets her own computer to follow along on. This is the best format for the student who learns by doing, and who prefers the immediate interaction with the instructor. There are three, 3-hour classes. The cost of the entire course is $259 and that includes a 50+ page workbook and course CD-ROM. The CD has step-by-step videos with all of the lessons on it that is a great review after the course. Students who sign up for this course also get a free pass to attend our Live Online Seminar (see below). Click here for a schedule of hands-on courses. Word Boot Camp. Our Boot Camp is taught in our Lecture Hall. It covers about the same material as our Complete course, but it's taught at a faster pace. Students sit and watch the instructor go through the examples on the big screen at the front of the hall. This format is designed for the student who learns by watching, and you can still ask questions of the instructor. The cost for the Boot Camp is $39 and includes a course outline, and you can download the full workbook from our Web site. Click here for a schedule of Boot Camps. LIVE Online Interactive Seminar. No matter where you are, whether at home or the office, you can learn online with our Live Online Interactive Seminars. You log on to our web site and watch the class right in your web browser. You see the instructor's screen and listen to him cover the examples. You can ask questions in our Chat Room and have them answered live, on the air. Best of all, you can come back after the class at your leisure and re-watch the class at your own pace - pausing as needed. The cost of the seminar is $29 and includes the downloadable workbook from our web site. Click here for more information on our Live Web Seminars. If you have any questions, or would like to speak with one of our computer training professionals to determine what course is best for you, please call 716-837-4685 or email us. You can also page a consultant for a live chat!
Drawing Toolbar You can open up your Word documents to a whole new world by adding arrows, boxes, circles, WordArt and all kinds of crazy objects from the Drawing Toolbar. Just click on View > Toolbars > Drawing. You'll notice a new toolbar pops up with all kinds of new toys on it for you.
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button on your standard toolbar which
does the same thing. For documents that you have recently accessed, you can
just click on the File menubar option and at the bottom of the list
you will see the last four documents you have opened. Just click on one of
those to open it.
