Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s a day for friends and lovers. The world needs a little more love from the looks of things but I won’t get into that! It has snowed, iced and rained in my region of late and I have to say I am really tired of it even though we have not
This is a really handy shortcut that will quickly display the Tabs dialog box. It’s so simple that all you do is to double-click on your Ruler just below the markings appearing there. Make sure you double-click at the bottom of the ruler, not at the top. If you double-click at the top, the Page
I am not one to advertise or promote software on my blog. Having said that, I do make exceptions for software that I find helpful if not invaluable. The software I am about to tell you about is most definitely invaluable to me and to many others who avail themselves of it. As I have
When using huge point sizes for making signs, or even large headings, you may wonder how you can reduce leading to where the lines can be squeezed very tight, with almost no vertical space between them. In typesetting, “leading” is the term used to reference the distance from the baseline of one line of text
This tip applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. Fields are very handy when working in a document—they allow you to place dynamic information in your documents. Sometimes you may want a field to remain static (i.e., not change). You can do this by selecting the field and
This tip applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 20210, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Office 365. One of my subscribers had a document in which footnote references were in the wrong place relative to the period at the end of a sentence. She wanted to search for all instances where the footnote reference is before the period
It is not unheard of to have a document that mixes different column layouts on a single page. For our purposes, we will assume you have a six-page document, and you want to format the center part of page two as three columns. You want the rest of the document to remain a single column.
Many of the tips I post rely on the use of the special fields available in Word. Many times, these fields are updated, automatically, when you make changes in a document or actually print the document. There may be times when you would like to make sure a field does not get updated. You can
Suppose you have a table that you do not want to extend past three lines vertically in any given cell. You may wonder if there is a way to lock how many lines there can be in any given cell of a table. Normally the height of a row (which, of course, controls the height
Well, the holidays are over, but winter is not. We had our first snow today! It really is beautiful but I personally am counting down to Spring time! I loathe being cold and it’s in the twenties tonight! We all had a lovely holiday and I hope that you did as well. I did my
