Before anything else, you need to make sure Word won’t damage the quality of your graphics, especially if you are going to print your document. Open Word’s Options > Advanced, go to the Image Size and Quality section at the right, and select any resolution equal or greater than 300 ppi. You can disable compression, […]
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Fun4Word (a Microsoft Word add-in) integrates with Word through a menu and allows you to apply funny formatting to parts of a selected text, or to a whole document. Fun4Word can write mirror words or whole sentences, mix up the words of a sentence, remove all the vowels from the words, color every word of […]
Sometimes we give a name when we create a Word document, that later on as our work advances we prefer to change, to make it conform better with the content. Is it possible to change the name of our Word document without locating it in Windows Explorer before we open it or after we close […]
When you mark an Index entry, Word enters this “XE” code behind the scenes: {XE “Some keyword”} When you insert in your document the list of entries, that is the Index itself, Word uses this “INDEX” code: {INDEX} To view field codes in your document, press Ctrl+Shift+Asterisk Both codes, that of the entries and that of the […]
OfficeIns is a small utility that displays the details of all installed Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and so on…) add-ins on your computer, and allows you to disable / enable them. OfficeIns doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, just copy all files from the ZIP archive […]
It sounds complicated, but it’s not! If your main Table of Contents contains a lot of entries, you may like to add to each of your main sections a smaller table of its own contents to help your readers refresh their memory and gain a better orientation. First, you need to create a distinct Word […]
Word is able to format footnotes in columns, even if your body text does not use columns at all! Or you may have a body text in 2 columns and your footnotes in 4 columns. Note that this is possible in footnotes only, you cannot have columns in end-notes. To take advantage of this feature […]
Since 2013 Microsoft Word hyphenates polytonic Greek documents even automatically; for older Word versions you can download Ancient Greek Hyphenator, a convenient free template that adds accurate hyphenation macros. I have tried it in a long document (900 pages) written in polytonic (ancient and modern) Greek, and it worked without faults and very fast. A help file […]
Newer Word versions offer a “Resume Reading” option, but not convenient enough, since it won’t drive you immediately to your last editing position, it will pop up a message you have to click — if you manage in time! Unfortunately there are no options you can change to make the transfer automatic — you will […]
Used independently of any style, this option influences a single word and nothing else: if you select a word and disable Spelling for this particular (instance of a) word, it won’t be hyphenated. This can prove very useful, when you find that hyphenation leaves a single letter on a different line! I even created an […]