It should be clear to you now that styles are THE most important aspect of Word: Without question, you MUST learn and understand styles. (The more you do learn the better Word will get for you.) However, the second most important, and the most confusing aspect of Words, is section breaks. They are perplexing for […]
This is a very short video to bring your attention and awareness to one of the important areas of the Microsoft Word interface – the status bar. There’s enough clutter in the Word interface, but regardless of what happens ‘up top’ the status bar always lets us know what’s going on in our currently selected—active—document. […]
The track changes functionality that Word offers is relatively straightforward and you shouldn’t have any problems with it. However, the purpose of this tip is regarding track changes when style formatting and conflicts are in play. What happens is that, despite what else is going on in your document, formatting in one specific area won’t […]
Only last week (at the time of writing, that is) I was working on designing a set of new templates for a client. They provided the original documents and wanted me to recreate these with best practice principles applied and all the rest of it. These original documents contained a series of lists. As always, […]