Feb 06, 2021
Master Document in Word - Part 3
In today’s blog we will explore creating a Table of Contents from the Master Document. The Master Document now contains a collection of linked Subdocument files [...]
Feb 03, 2021
Custom AutoCorrect entries in Microsoft Office
The main purpose of AutoCorrect is to automatically fix commonly misspelled words. The idea is simple; you type a word incorrectly and, as soon as you press the spacebar [...]
Dec 13, 2020
Sharing a Word Document on OneDrive
If your organisation uses Office 365 then you have the ability to save files to the Cloud – to OneDrive. Saving files to OneDrive provides some benefits to both [...]
Nov 25, 2020
How to: Create a company style guide
One of the most essential documents any business can have is a company style guide. Yet, not many do. A style guide ensures that all internal or external [...]
Oct 25, 2020
Master Document in Word - Part 1
The Master Document in Microsoft Word is a tool that gets highly overlooked but can provide a great level of efficiency when working on company files. If you have [...]
Oct 12, 2020
Working with Styles - Part 5
Previously on Word Styles we looked at creating new styles over a document that will create, in effect, a company style guide. Now the company has a complete style guide [...]
Sep 21, 2020
How-to: Make dates and currency in Excel show properly in a Word Mail Merge (Part 2)
In my previous blog I talked about one way to make your dates and currency show properly in a Microsoft Word mail merge. This time I’ll be showing you 2 other [...]
Sep 08, 2020
Working with Styles - Part 4
Previously on Word Styles we looked at changing the Style attributes of the Normal Style and Heading Styles that would mean a company font theme can be applied to new [...]
Sep 01, 2020
Are you using these features in Microsoft Word?
We are all familiar with Microsoft Word – and many of us use it every day of the working week. Despite our frequent use, many of us are yet to discover some really [...]
Aug 18, 2020
Working with Styles - Part 3
In part 3 of my Working with Styles series, we are going to look at modifying the formatting attributes of Word Styles. When you create a new document by default it’s in [...]
Aug 15, 2020
Quick Tuts: Word 2010 - Easily align text with leader tabs
It's time to stop using spaces and full stops to align your documents, and start using leader tabs. In our QuickTuts video, Liz French shows how to use leader tabs [...]
Aug 01, 2020
Tailoring your document with Styles
The process of applying direct formatting is tedious and can often result in a document that looks messy and inconsistent. A simple solution to this is to use Styles. [...]
Nov 06, 2020
Decorate Your Office
The Microsoft Office applications can be customised to use a different colour scheme and, in the case of Office 2013 and 2016, a background. The background is purely [...]
Nov 03, 2020
Microsoft Word: Make an Exclusion Dictionary
Previously, we’ve talked about adding extra words to a ‘custom dictionary’ so that the spellchecker of Microsoft Word marks them as correct. But what about when you are [...]
Oct 09, 2020
Non-Breaking Spaces & Non-Breaking Hyphens in Word
Most of the time we separate words with a space. But occasionally we use a hyphen. There are also En Dashes and Em Dashes, but let’s not overcomplicate things! When we [...]
Sep 11, 2020
Creating a layout for Word and Excel
How many times have you wanted to test a layout in Word or Excel before actually putting the content in? In this post, I'll show you a couple of simple ways of [...]
Aug 31, 2020
Creating Labels in Microsoft Word
You can create pages of labels using an Excel list and a Microsoft Word mail merge. Start in a blank document in Microsoft Word and click on the Mailings [...]
Aug 31, 2020
Creating Labels in Microsoft Word
You can create pages of labels using an Excel list and a Microsoft Word mail merge. Start in a blank document in Microsoft Word and click on the Mailings [...]
Jul 13, 2020
Selecting Text in Microsoft Word
Before we do anything to the text we’ve written in Microsoft Word, such as formatting or copy and paste, we first have to select the text, or as some people say, [...]
Jun 02, 2021
Creating Quick Parts in Microsoft Word
Quick Parts are a type of building block in Microsoft Word that allow you to insert a ‘standard clunk’ into your Word documents. They are great for ‘bits of a document’ [...]
Apr 24, 2021
Automate your table of contents in Microsoft Word
In order to create an automatically generated table of contents (TOC) in Microsoft Word, you need to ensure you apply heading styles throughout your document. That is, [...]
Mar 13, 2021
The Spike
The Spike in Microsoft Word is a feature that has been around for years. I can remember it being featured in courses I taught back in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. [...]
Feb 10, 2021
Master mail merge to email in Microsoft Word
Have you ever needed to send the same letter out to 100 clients? It would be very time consuming to have to create each of those on your own. A better option is to [...]
Oct 21, 2020
Inserting an online video in Word 2013
Microsoft Word 2013 introduces a new feature which I think is pretty great: the ability to insert a link to an online video. The most likely source of the video would be [...]
Oct 17, 2020
The mystery of mail merge in Microsoft Word
There seems to be some mystery surrounding the process of performing a mail merge in Microsoft Word. People are often daunted by the thought of having to use this [...]
Oct 10, 2020
Why use section breaks in Microsoft Word?
So you just got told that you are going to have to write the next training manual for your job. No problem. Just type everything up and then print it out, right? Hold [...]
Sep 01, 2020
Heading styles in Microsoft Word
Recently, one of the students in a Microsoft Word training course asked me whether it was a good idea to use the existing Heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2 Heading 3, [...]
Jun 27, 2020
Protecting content in Microsoft Word with 'Restrict Editing'
I often ask people "what is the main reason for converting a Microsoft Word document into a PDF?" One of the most common answers is “to stop people from changing the [...]
Jun 16, 2020
Multi-level sorting made possible in Microsoft Word
Did you know that in Microsoft Word, you can sort your information up to 3 levels? This means that when all things are equal in the first column then it will do a second [...]
Jun 02, 2021
Borders and shading in Microsoft Word 2010
Don’t you hate it when you can’t get the borders to appear on all sides? Or when the frame of the border goes all the way to the edge of the margin when you really want [...]
May 13, 2021
How to create fillable forms in Microsoft Word
When you create a form in Microsoft Word to capture information that is to be entered by another user, a few problems may arise. The problem that occurs will depend on [...]
Apr 17, 2021
Insert an online video into Word 2013
A picture says a thousand words and now in Microsoft Word 2013, we can say it with moving pictures. The new Online Video button found in the Insert tab makes it possible [...]
Feb 10, 2021
The fundamentals of styles in Microsoft Word
Styles in Microsoft Word are one of the most misunderstood features and yet, ironically it's one of the most important aspects of formatting for the end-user. Styles [...]
