Training and Tips for Using Microsoft Word

You may be seeing wavy blue lines in your Word documents and wondering, “what’s up?” The answer is, “it depends.” That’s because Microsoft u...

Insert a Page Number Field One of the most common reasons for creating a header or footer in a document is to add page numbering. Word 200...

It seems you can’t swing a chain saw in Oregon without hitting someone urging you to be “green.” And really, why wouldn’t you want to save t...

Switching Between Open Documents I usually have three or four Word documents going at the same time. I like to have my Inbox and Calendar ...

A recent Keyboard Shortcut of the Week  detailed how to easily toggle Formatting Marks. Now that you can easily see them, what do they mean?...

Zoom Zoom I’ve had a terrible cold this week, so I’m dreaming of a keyboard shortcut that pops up a Kleenex, or fires a cough drop out of th...

Avoiding Awkward Page Breaks with Keep With Next The concepts in this article apply to both Word 2003 and 2007, however the steps listed are...

Show/Hide Formatting Marks Showing Formatting Marks (also called “non-printing characters”) in Word is a valuable tool in determining the me...

Avoiding Awkward Page Breaks with Keep Lines Together The concepts in this article apply to both Word 2003 and 2007, however the steps liste...

Single and Double Line Spacing Lucky you, it’s a bonus week with two keyboard shortcuts for the price of one. They go together so nicely, ...

Cue the mood music Avoiding Awkward Page Breaks with Widow/Orphan Control I consider a page break awkward when the lines of a paragraph are ...

Extend Selection - F8 Selecting text with the mouse can be frustrating, especially when you’re grabbing a large block of text that spans pag...

This one’s for my friends in legal and applies to both Word 2003 and 2007. If you are not already familiar with the table of authorities fea...

Go To Previous Revision - Shift + F5 One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts is Shift + F5 , Go To Previous Revision. This feature toggles am...

Do you miss the old Mail Merge Helper from Word 97-2000? It was so simple! It only had three steps: create the main document, select the dat...

Change Case - Shift + F3 Changing the case of text you’ve already typed can be time consuming. For example, you may decide that a heading i...

This article applies to both Word 2003 and Word 2007. Text in Word documents can look the same, but actually be formatted with different fon...

Pete and Repeat - F4 While editing documents, particularly when cleaning up documents created by piecing together bits of text from lots of ...

The Mini Toolbar is part of the Microsoft Office 2007 Fluent User Interface . It appears automatically in Word whenever you select text and ...

Office 2007 has been out for some time now, and most of us have gotten used to the Ribbon, but do you know where the it came from? Why did M...