How to Change Highlight Color at Once in Word Documents
There are times when you need to locate a particular document in a hurry from a host of similar documents in the same folder; it can get very time consuming and cumbersome. One technique is to create identifiers like highlighting words in your document. If you want to change all the highlights in your document […]
How to do Customized Numbering for Pages in one Single Word Document
In addition to the table of contents, large documents often require special or different numbering for different pages of a single document. For example, the page numbers start only after the cover page or the table of contents has Roman numbers. The customized numbering of word documents helps provide better indexing of the file. Microsoft […]
Hide / Unhide, Toggle and Print Tasks of To Do Lists in Word
Let’s say you have a lengthy to-do list where some tasks are complete and some pending. Now, you might not want to see the tasks that have been completed, but you don’t want to delete them either. Here are some tips to simplify using tasks in MS Word. You can hide and unhide tasks of […]
Save Word Documents in Different Versions – Install Missing Components in MS-Word
If you are a person who regularly keeps on changing between work stations that have Word 97, 2003 ,2007 or higher versions installed, you might want to save your documents in these formats. Let us see how you can enable Word to provide you with this feature, in case it’s not already installed. To make […]
How to Create Quick Part / Reusable Content in Word
Creating a Quick Part in a Word document allows you to make a block of text easily accessible and reusable. This will make your document appear uniform, apart from saving your time. Word 2007 helps you capture content from one document and reuse it over and over again in other documents as a building block. […]
Create PDF from Office Applications – Save a Word or Excel File as PDF / XPS
Adobe’s PDF has established itself as a cross-platform document format. Even MS-Office can work with it directly. It is expensive to create PDF files from Adobe Acrobat Professional. Here is a small plugin for Microsoft Office allows you to save a Word or Excel file directly as a PDF or XPS. There are methods to […]
How to Prevent Automatic Table Formatting in Word Documents
Microsoft Word at times automatically changes the column width of a table at its own discretion. This jumbles up the entire page layout. You can always prevent automatic table formatting in Word documents. The procedure to do so is as follows.. Right-click any one cell of the table in the document and select the ‘Table […]
How To Compile/Create or Modify Your Own Dictionary in Word
When you are writing or editing word documents, you may see flagging words only because they are not in MS-Word’s dictionary. You can compile, create and modify your own customized dictionaries in Microsoft Word and run spell checks using them. By this you can insert new words into the dictionary and can remove flags. This […]
How to Change Back Up / Auto Save Frequency of Word Documents
If you experience frequent system restarts or shutdowns, or even power failures it can get very annoying and difficult to recover a lost document. You may also forget to save the document while working, and it may be a long time since you last saved the document. Although Word takes a backup of your documents […]
How to Set and Use Default File Format for Word Documents
When you create a document in Word, you need to save it in a particular format. Usually these formats are Word or Word version specific. This can cause a problem especially if you open your Word documents on more than one machine with different versions of Word. However, there are a few formats that are […]
How to Create Automatic Numbered Lists in Word
Microsoft Word provides you with multiple features that help you type out and create your documents with great ease and speed. One such feature is the automatic numbered list feature. This automatically formats the paragraph with a hanging indent, and creates a numbered list when you type an alphabet or a number followed by a […]
How to Add Voice Annotations / Audio Files to your Text in Word Documents
Microsoft Word allows you to easily add voice annotations to your text document. An annotation is a note or a special instruction that is added along with the document. It is an audio file which can be inserted into the document. These are mainly helpful in making guides or tutorials. We already discussed How to […]
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