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July 17, 2013June 26, 2013Editing the Normal TemplateThe Normal template is the document that stores all of Word’s formatting defaults: the font, paragraph, margins, and page size information. It’s used whenever you create a new, blank document. All that stuff can change, but to do so you first need to hunt down the Normal template file and edit it directly. That isn’t easy.
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June 12, 2013Columns of Word’sMicrosoft Word’s column format is an odd concept, but one that can be easy to understand once you accept the quirky way Word does things.
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April 10, 2013Table Formatting FunCrafting a table in Microsoft Word need not be a source of pain, woe, and frustration.
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March 27, 2013Tips and Tricks for Numbered Lists in WordWord’s automatic line numbering feature fills you with glee or drives you to despair. Either way, the feature is more clever than you think, especially when you know some tips and tricks.
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March 22, 2013Text Highlighting AdventuresRecently a reader wrote to ask my how to get more text highlighting colors in Word. The short answer: You can’t. The skimpy 15 color palette is Microsoft gives you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t highlight text in zillions of colors.
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March 15, 2013Changing Page Numbers in the Middle of a DocumentI get this question a lot: How can you write a document so that page numbering goes from i through iv for the first four pages, then restarts number at 1 on page 5? Confused?
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February 25, 2013The Power of the ¶
January 18, 2013Fake AutoText in Word 2007, 2010, and 2013Microsoft trained everyone to love AutoText from Word zero through Word 2003. Then that happy feature was abused in Word 2007, mugged in Word 2010, and stands for execution in the up-coming Word 2013. What’s an Autotext lover to do?
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January 7, 2013Word Content ControlsHave you ever started up a template in Word 2010/2007 and seen those fill-in-the-blanks items? Have you wanted to create them yourself? Here’s how!
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Whenever I look at a Word document and it’s all screwy, the first thing I want to see is what doesn’t show up on the screen: Those tiny characters that affect the text in strange ways, but which are hidden. Somewhere in that mess is the solution to the formatting problem.