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....
by Colin Foster | Jun 1, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
What are Styles in Word? At their most basic, Styles in Word are a quick way of applying a number of formats to a font in one go. By applying a Style to a block of text, you can, at a single click, change it from the default “Calibri 11” to Arial, Size 16,...
by Colin Foster | May 9, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
What are Themes? When using Word, whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re using a Theme – usually the Office default one. This decides what the basic fonts & colours will be and, used with Styles (which will be the subject of our next Word tip), can...
by Colin Foster | Apr 9, 2018 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
Black country or French accents? No, I’m not referring to the mellifluous tones of my Black Country accents, here, but the little marks above letters (usually in foreign languages, but occasionally in English, too when we’ve appropriated a word – such as...
