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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

  

Some features of Word you may not have seen before

The other side of Smiley's face

The paperclip tries to be helpful

Word under the bonnet

Making your toolbars work for you

Other bits and pieces

New release Palm PC

Another victim of too much email

Support as it should be: the chronicles of George

The toughest decision: should my loved one be placed in an Assisted Computing Facility?

Proof that Microsoft really IS scheming to take over the world

All at sea with technology

Macho programming

Well they're so easily confused ...

Don't do it, PLEASE don't do it

The bit they never let you see

Ah, so THAT'S what it stands for