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• Word Tutorials

  • Bend Word to Your Will (written for Word for the Macintosh, this article has broad applicability to all versions of Word).
  • How to save yourself hours by using Outline View properly
  • What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean?
  • Typographical Tips from Microsoft Publisher
  • Some of the most useful Word keyboard shortcuts
  • Word commands, and their descriptions, default shortcuts and menu assignments
  • How can I insert special characters, such as dingbats and accented letters, in my document?
  • Setting tabs
  • Ruler of all you survey: How to make the best use of Word's rulers
  • The strait and narrow – using columns
  • Working with sections
  • How can I automatically generate an index in Word?
  • How to control the page numbering in a Word document
  • Finding and replacing non-printing characters (such as paragraph marks), other special characters, and text formatting
  • Finding and replacing characters using wildcards
  • Is there life after “Reveal Codes”?
  • How Word differs from WordPerfect
  • The draw layer: a metaphysical space (and how to bring it back down to earth)
  • Cleaning up text pasted from the Web

• Merging External Data

  • How to create a Mail Merge
  • Creating a Mail Merge Data Source
  • Making your mail merge “intelligent” by using IF fields
  • Turning Word into a pseudo-database by using Mail Merge Query Options 
  • Using MacroButton fields

• Using Templates

  • Part I: Creating simple templates
  • Part II: Creating complex book and report templates

•  Troubleshooting

  • How can I recover a corrupt document or template – and why did it become corrupt?
  • How to recover a Master Document
  • Why Master Documents corrupt

• Using Tables

  • I have a “Name” column which I want to split into “FirstName”, “LastName” – how can I do it?

• Forms, Fields and Macro Programming

  • How to add pop-up lists to any Word document, so you can click your way through changes in seconds
  • Creating a macro with no programming experience using the recorder
  • Run a macro automatically when Word starts or quits
  • Run a macro automatically when a document is created, opened or closed
  • Getting to grips with VBA basics in 15 minutes
  • The art of defensive programming
  • Why variables should be declared properly
  • How to cut out repetition and write much less code, by using subroutines and functions that take arguments
  • When to use parentheses to enclose subroutine and function arguments
  • Early vs. Late Binding
  • Getting help with calling Word's built-in dialogs using VBA (and why doing so can be much more useful than you'd think)
  • How to create a Userform
  • Useful WordBasic commands that have no VBA equivalent
  • Working with bookmarks
  • Determine the index number of the current paragraph
  • How to customise the Control Toolbox in the VBA Editor
  • Intercepting events like Save and Print
  • Writing application event procedures

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