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April 18, 2006

Word Tip: Double-Click Delights: Works with Word 97, 2000, 2002

 

 

Here are some shortcuts to dialog boxes and functionality you can invoke by double-clicking your mouse: 

 



1. Open the Page Setup dialog box, which provides access to margin, paper size and orientation (portrait and landscape), and layout (section start, header/footer control) options by double-clicking on the ruler bar. (If the ruler isn't shown, use the View/Ruler command.) Note: If you do not have a printer installed, the Page Setup dialog box may not appear. (Alternative: Use the File/Page Setup command.)

2. Double-click "TRK" in the status bar at the bottom of the work area to turn Track Changes on. This feature triggers Word to use a different color when displaying your changes, so the document's author can easily spot your work. (Alternative: use the Tools/Track Changes command.)

3. Double-click in the location information in the status bar (any spot within the area that shows the page number, section number, vertical position, line number, and column number of the blinking insertion bar) to open the Go To menu. By default, the dialog box is ready with "Go to Page" (you enter the page number). The tabbed dialog box also provides access to Find as well as Find and Replace commands. (Alternative: Press F5, Ctrl+G, or use the Edit/Go To command.)

4. Double-click in any empty area surrounding the top toolbar to open the Customize dialog box to tailor the toolbar to your liking. (Alternative: Right-click in the same area and choose Customize.)

5. Double-click on the speller icon in the status bar to begin the spelling checker. (Alternative: Tools/Spelling and Grammar menu command, or press F7.)

6. Double-click on the splitter bar (just above the up- pointing arrow in the vertical scrollbar) to open two equal- sized panes for the same document. This allows you to edit two different areas of the same document. (Tip: Double- click on the border between the two panes to return to a single-pane view.) (Alternative: Window/Split menu command.) 7. Select a word by double-clicking it. (Triple-click to select the current paragraph.) 

 

 

  Posted by Barbara Wright at April 18, 2006 9:26 AM
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