If you work on a large document (I am on a 14 MB document, 400 pages, 98000 words) you may find yourself struggling to just type! I’ve searched for a solution only to find out that I should disable hardware acceleration and the actual display of pictures! No joy! I guess those things might have […]
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You may change a heading in your Word document, to find out that your Table of Contents broke and instead of showing the page number for the new heading it gives you an error message, that the bookmark is not defined. If you right click your TOC you are not given the option of updating […]
BookWright is a free program by Blurb, you can use to prepare your book for publication. It supports the creation of photo and trade books, magazines, ebooks and it provides convenient templates. The interface is pleasant and easy to use. You can drag and drop images anywhere you like, add text using text boxes or […]
Even if you use a scheme that provides a large blinking cursor when you work with text, you may still be losing track of your cursor. Then you press the arrow keys to make it move and hopefully locate it! This may result to your document changing page! As you may know Windows provides in […]
I remember that in older versions of Word, pressing Ctrl+i would italicize all the words of a selection; pressing the same shortcut again would make all words normal. This behavior seems to have changed. Selecting text that contains both italicized and regular text and pressing Ctrl+i now alternates the italics, that is, words in italics […]
Normally when you check the Word option to “allow draft view”, when you save and close a document in draft view, next time it opens it will be again in draft view. However, in real world things won’t always work as we expect. You may have “allowed draft view” only to find out that your […]
You may have been using in MS Word a Quick Access toolbar that needed a lot of time to be created, updated, changed, until it reached a form that finally serves you best. Now that you installed Office in a different PC or you reinstalled Windows and Office in the same PC, or in similar […]
I opened MS Word the other day to face this prompt that “The Visual Basic environment could not be initialized”! The same message popped up (twice) when I closed Word! A help button was more informative, saying about “insufficient memory” and “low disk space” — but I have 8GB RAM and 6TB in my hard […]
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, […]
Repair My Word allows you to recover text from damaged or corrupt MS Word files (.doc) that will not open normally. The recovered text can then be saved as an error free Microsoft Word document. I have not tried it in Word 2016 or later, where perhaps is unable to help. Some common error messages which […]