by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jul 10, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
If you’re creating a newsletter, flyer, or some other document, and the text hasn’t been written yet, insert placeholder text. This will allow you to work on the layout until the text is ready. Here’s how you do it: Type =Rand(#,#) where you want to...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jul 3, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
Problem: You copy and paste content into your document. Word maintains the original formatting and you have to manually reformat it to match your document. Solution: Use Paste Options to bring in just the content, and leave the formatting behind. Here are four options...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jul 1, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
Have you ever tried to highlight text by dragging, and your document starts running across your screen? Never again! Dragging across text to select it for formatting is just one of the possibilities. Here are 3 Microsoft Word selection techniques you should be using...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jun 25, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
I miss the days, decades ago, when Word featured an “Open Any File” command… it really could! We called it the “can opener” because we could throw anything at it, from WordPerfect to files created in other applications, and Word would...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Jun 18, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
Microsoft Word Navigation Pane 101 Have you ever heard of Word’s Navigation Pane? It’s a sidebar you can view on the left of your document that allows you to move more quickly through your Word document. Use it to browse your document by Headings,...