UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: March 2006 Archives
March 30, 2006
Graphics and Line Height
If the inline graphics in your document appear "chopped off," it could
be directly related to the formatting within the paragraph containing
the graphic. This tip explains why this chopping happens and how you
can adjust formatting so that the entire graphic shows up.
Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0788
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
11:05 AM
Displaying Nonprinting Characters
There are several different characters that are routinely contained
within a document, yet these characters don't show up on any printout.
Things such as spaces, tabs, optional hyphens, and the like are all
important parts of your document. A handy feature is to configure Word
so it displays these characters on-screen. This tip explains how.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
11:04 AM
Searching for Character Formatting
Word doesn't limit you to searching only for text. You can also, among
other things, search for text formatted in a specific manner. This tip
explains how you can easily perform such a search.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
11:03 AM
Automatic Question Numbering
Sometimes an automatic number isn't the only thing you need at the
start of a paragraph. For instance, this tip explains three different
methods of how you can put a standard underline space before the
numbers in a numbered list. This can come in handy if you need to
include the underlines as an "answer area" for each question.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
11:01 AM
YOUTH SQL to suppress Social Security numbers
This SQL will delete Social Security numbers from the member records in 4-H YOUTH software.
Update “Youth2a.db”
Set SocSec = Null
This can be copied and pasted into Help|Troubleshooting|SQL .
Go File|Execute and social security numbers are gone.
Posted by Barbara Wright at
10:47 AM
Printing a Bookmark List
You can define and use bookmarks to reference all sorts of text and
text positions within a document. If, at some point, you want to print
a list of the bookmarks you've created, you'll be interested in the
macro in this tip. It provides a very simple way to create a list and
then print it.
Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0644
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
10:43 AM
Determining Page Layout
Word allows you to specify quite a few parameters concerning the pages
in your documents. Collectively, these parameters define your page
layout. This tip explains some of the considerations you need to take
into account whenever you create your own page layout.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
10:41 AM
March 29, 2006
Extra Spaces after AutoText Substitutions
AutoText can be a great way to insert large amounts of text with a
minimum of typing. If your AutoText entries seem to be followed by
unwanted spaces, it could be due to how the AutoText entries were
defined in the first place. This tip explains the potential problem
and how to fix it.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
3:36 PM
Standardizing Note Reference Placement
When placing footnotes and endnotes in a document, it is normal that
the references for these notes be placed after any punctuation that
ends the clause or sentence to which the note refers. If you have a
document that has many misplaced note references, you may be
interested in this tip, which will switch the relationship of the note
reference and the punctuation.
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
3:33 PM
March 20, 2006
Smart Quotes in Word
As you type a document, Word automatically converts your quote marks
and apostrophes to "curly" versions that look more professional. When
working with a document from a different source that doesn't include
these smart quotes, you may want to convert them all so they look the
same. This is easy to do simply by using Word's Find and Replace
function. This tip explains how.
Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0586 Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips
Posted by Barbara Wright at
9:58 AM
