by Colin Foster | Jan 22, 2019 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
The other day, I was approached by one of my training contacts – Audrey Bodman from the Outshine Group – for some assistance with one of her Word Questionnaires as, rather than getting her delegates to complete the form by hand (with the challenges that reading other...
by Colin Foster | Nov 19, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
Looking at formatting in Word In last month’s Word Tips, I mentioned the “Show/Hide button” or Pilcrow (or “backward P”) & how it can be used to reveal the various formatting features that have been used in a Word document, so here we...
by Colin Foster | Oct 8, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
Using Section Breaks to split up your document I had a call from a client last week who needed his Word document to have both Portrait and Landscape pages within the same document as, in addition to narrative information, he had to include some large tables of data,...
by Colin Foster | Sep 14, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
Wildcards to extend the Find & Replace options Last month, you’ll recall, I took you through the process of using Find & Replace to help complete a sorting process within a document (as a reminder… http://us4b.co.uk/2018/08/sorting-in-word/) In addition...
by Colin Foster | Aug 13, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
What do you mean, Sorting in Word – that’s Excel, surely? Normally, I’d agree with you – we use Excel for “Number crunching”, working with lists, etc and we use Word for writing articles or letters – or even Blog posts – but occasionally, it...
by Colin Foster | Jul 9, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
When do you need a Table of Contents? In my view, it doesn’t really make sense to go to the trouble of creating a Table of Contents (easy though the process is) until you’ve a document that’s a few pages long that incorporates a number of headings....
