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Toggle italics or bold in a selection in MS Word completely, partially, alternating or not

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 […]

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If you are unable to open a Word document in Draft view

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 […]

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Get Word macros to copy text, delete section breaks, remove bookmarks and hyperlinks, change spacing, and more

You can use this set of Word macros to copy selected text to a list file, delete all bookmarks or hyperlinks in your document, delete section breaks, convert double space to single space. A Word macro included in this set lets you cleanup your text, deleting all instances of more than one space, replacing any […]

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Get Word macros for converting tables to csv or txt, adding borders, formatting, extract all tables

This is a set of Word macros that will help you to work with tables in your documents. The first macro automatically loops through all tables and uses commas to convert them to csv text. The second macro applies borders to all tables in a document (with a line of 0.5pt). The third and fourth […]

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Simple macros to add or remove blank lines in a Word document

You can download and import in Word this pair of macros that will let you add or remove blank lines / paragraphs. The first macro adds a blank line after each paragraph. The second macro finds and replaces all occurrences of two successive paragraph marks with a single paragraph mark, as well as successive line […]

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Word macros to resize images, convert, or wrap text around them

You can use this set of Word macros to control images in a Word document. The first macro lets you change automatically all your images from in-line to floating. The second macro deletes all of them. The third macro deletes images and closes the text gap. The fourth macro removes all frames in the selected […]

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Get Word macros to replace auto bullets or auto numbers, even revert your lists to normal text

Here is a set of Word macros that will let you manipulate numbers and bullets automatically. The first macro changes an auto-bulleted list to a list with hard bullets. This macro can be particularly useful when you need to copy a list from Word and paste it to some other text editor without loosing your […]

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Office Troubleshooter

Rename an active Word document without closing it

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 […]

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Best free MS Word productivity macros

Here is a selection of fine, free and safe MS Word macros you can use to make your life with Word easier! MS Word macro to create automatically Drop Caps will let you just put your mouse cursor to the beginning of a sentence to transform the first letter to a Drop Cap. Scroll a […]

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Assign Odd Page Section Breaks to Headings in MS Word

It is usual for certain publications to start new chapters on odd pages. If you have a Word document divided in sections / chapters without this natural and useful option of associating a section break with an odd page, don’t be sad! At this point there comes the help of Word Macros! You can download […]

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