MS Word
How and Why to Convert a MS Word Document from Compatibility Mode to Normal Mode
Sometimes MS Word will display the “Compatibility Mode” message right after the file name on the Title Bar: That means you have opened a file saved in an earlier version of MS Word in a newer version of MS Word. For example, if you open a file saved as a MS Word 2003 file in…
Read MoreHow to Print Pages of a MS Word Document in Reverse Order
There are times when you might want to print the pages of an MS Word document in reverse order. You may want to do this, for example, when your printer prints the pages in reverse order by default. Then by directing the MS Word to print in reverse order, you’d in effect be printing page…
Read MoreHow to Display Dynamic Pop-Up Menus in MS Word 2007
© Ugur Akinci MS Word will display pop-up menus dynamically when you select any document component and press Shift + F10 The content of the pop-up menu that displays will differ from one component to another. For example, if you select plain text and press Shift + F10, this is the kinf od pop-up menu…
Read MoreHow to Create and Use Autotext Building Blocks in a MS Word 2010 Document
There may be cases when you’d like to use the very same MS Word text snippet, or “boilerplate text”, repeatedly in different documents. Wouldn’t be nice just to insert the same frequently-used text automatically rather than copy-pasting, or worse, rewriting it? You can accomplish that easily with MS Word’s Autotext Building Block feature. What a…
Read MoreQuality Assurance Audit System (QAAS) – A MS Office Add-In for Quality Assurance Management
The Quality Assurance Audit System (QAAS) is a MS Office Add-In that provides a formal environment through which Users can: Generate Audits Input audit findings Track and trend audits and findings Electronically address audit findings and provide responses, resolutions and CAPAs. Generare ad-hoc metrics and scorecards with built-in search engine Progress audits from Draft to Approval with a full workflow, electronic signatures…
Read MoreHow to Create a MS Word Form Letter in 15 Seconds
Are you sending the same letter over and over to different individuals on different dates? There is a way to automate that process. You can actually create such a form letter within 15 seconds: 1 second to create the letter, and 14 more to change the name and address as appropriate. In this method even…
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How to Split a MS Word Paragraph into Individual Sentences
Introduction In MS Word, a paragraph is a block of text that follows one after the other. It is a block of text that follows one after the other and is indicated by a blank line between paragraphs. How to Split a Paragraph Imagine you have a long text made up of a single paragraph.…
Read MoreHow to Insert Text Above a Table in MS Word
© Ugur Akinci Sometimes it’s difficult in a MS Word document to enter text before a table, especially if the table is the very first thing on the first page of a document, like the following: To insert a text before the table, just insert your cursor in the first cell of the table (top-left…
Read MoreHow to Use MS Word’s Hide Text Function to Create a Conditional Text Effect
MS Word does not have a dedicated “Conditional Text” functionality like Adobe FrameMaker does. But by using Word’s “hidden text” functionality, you can achieve a similar “conditional text” effect. Imagine you are writing a Thank You letter to your customers for buying two different types of products, with hard-to-remember serial numbers and images: MAXI JUICER…
Read MoreHow to Remember When to Spell Out Numbers in MS Word
Here is an easy way to remember when to spell out numbers in MS Word… You probably wonder when to write a number in Arabic numerals and when to spell it out openly. You don’t have to guess that anymore. MS Word has a grammar setting that lets you know whether you are doing it…
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