Posts Tagged ‘text’

Five Methods of Selecting Text with your Mouse in MS Word

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

We all know that selecting text in MS Word is a common task, but do you know how many different ways you can accomplish that task using your mouse?

I am all about saving time and keystrokes and love to show other folks how to as well.  Check out the five time-saving methods of selecting text in MS Word below.

  1. Double-click a single word to select it.
  2. Click in the left-hand margin next to a line of text to select it.
  3. CTRL + click anywhere in a sentence will select the entire sentence.
  4. Triple-click anywhere in a paragraph to have it selected. You can also highlight the entire paragraph by clicking twice in the left-hand margin.
  5. Click three times in the left-hand margin to select your entire  document.

How to Make Page Numbers Appear as Text in MS Word, Part Deux

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

In response to a previous post detailing how to have your page numbers appear as text in MS Word, I received an inquiry from a reader, asking:

“How do I get the pagination in my document to capitalize the numbers (words)? And can I get the pagination to read “one of Eight” for instance?

I assured the reader that this can be done and so I will now give you the steps to accomplish this as well:

  1. To display the page number in capitals, click inside the page number field and press SHIFT + F9 to display the field code. Add \*upper before closing the brace.  The code should look like this:
  2. {PAGE\*cardtext\*upper}
  3. Press F9 to hide the field code and update the field.

For the total number of pages, you use the NUMPAGES field instead of the PAGE field, so you would end up with field codes like this:

Page{PAGE\*cardtext} of {NUMPAGES\*cardtext}

It is important that you not type the field braces yourself. Either click CTRL + F9 to insert them or use Insert | Field to create a field.

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How Do I Make Page Numbers Appear as Text in MS Word?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

One of my subcribers recently asked me how the page numbers appear in the footer of her document as text, rather than as numerals.

It took some research, but I found the answer for her.  If you too have ever needed or wanted your page numbers to appear as text in your document, follow the steps below to learn:

  • Click on View | Headers and Footers.
  • Once your are in either your Header or Footer:
  • Click CTRL + F9 to insert field braces { }. Do not type them in manually, as it will not work.
  • Key in:
  •  page \*cardtext
  • between the braces.
  • Click on F9 to hide the field code and update the field.

The word “card” in cardtext is an abbreviation of cardinal. Cardinal numbers are the ones we use for counting (i.e. 1, 2, 3), while ordinal numbers indicate the order in a sequence (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd). If you used \*ordtext as a field switch, you would get first, second, third, etc.

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