UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: September 2006 Archives

Some of the secondary menus used in Word can be made into floating toolbars, if you know the trick. It's not that hard; just click on the bar at the top of the menu and drag it to a new location, as described in this tip.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0839

If you have two tables separated by a couple of blank lines, you can easily join the tables by simply removing those blank lines. When you do, you are still faced with the task of making the column widths of the two tables the same. How you perform the task depends on the version of Word you are using.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0825

For some types of documents, you may need to include more than one table of contents. For instance, you might have a document that includes multiple chapters, and each chapter needs its own TOC. This tip explains how easy it is to create multiple tables of contents in your own documents.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0772

Granite State College has announced some computer workshops for fall of 2006.

Included in their fall offerings are:

Excel - 2 levels
Access - 2 levels

Courses cost $120, but UNH staff is eligible for a tuition break. (See: http://extension.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/unh_disc.htm )

For further information on these and other courses offered through Granite State College, call 603-334-6060.

Granite State College's web site is at: http://www.granite.edu/

The Find and Replace feature in Word allows you to easily search for lots of different items or characteristics in your document. One of the things you cannot natively do, however, is to search for borders on paragraphs. This tip introduces two macros that make short work of finding any bordered paragraphs in your documents.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1378

Word can either print your document in the foreground or in the background. If you want to stop a print job that is in progress, the way you do it depends on which way you are printing the document. This tip explains the differences.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0865

Word allows you to print return addresses on your envelopes. You may run across a scenario where the return address is being stubborn, and you need to track down how to fully get rid of it. This tip examines all the places where your return address could be cropping up and leads you through getting rid of it once and for all.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0726

Turn on Track Changes, and Word will automatically notate where you make edits in your document. Normally these change marks print when you commit your document to hard copy. If you don't want the marks to print, then you'll appreciate the information in this tip.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1782

The text within comments can be formatted using the same techniques used to format regular document text. In addition, you can modify the style on which comments are based in order to completely control how comments look. This tip explains how to get the formatting you want.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1784

When using Track Changes, Word normally notes the originator of a particular comment or change. This information can then be displayed so that other readers can know who did what. If you want comments and changes to be anonymous, then there are a couple of things you can do, as described in this tip.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1783

When using pattern matching (wild cards) in searching, Word allows you to specify how many of a particular character should occur in order for a match to be made. This tip describes the parameter, surrounded by curly braces, and gives examples of how it can be effectively used.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1333

One of the units of measure understood by Word is the pica, which is equivalent to 1/6 of an inch. This tip explains how to enter picas into dialog boxes where measurements are required.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0696