Category Archives: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word – displaying table headings on each page with long tables

Posted on April 29, 2024 by jdonbavand

If you have a large table in Microsoft Word that is longer than one page, you may want to see the column headings on the top of each page. To do this: Find out more about our Microsoft Word training … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – creating a table of contents

Posted on April 18, 2024 by jdonbavand

A table of contents can be used to help you find your way through a long document by creating links to headings throughout your documents. Word can do this most effectively if you use styles Heading1, Heading2 and Heading3 when … Continue reading →

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Left Caps Lock on by mistake in Word, Outlook or PowerPoint?

Posted on April 2, 2024 by jdonbavand

Have you ever inadvertently left Caps Lock on in either Word, Outlook or PowerPoint, and have a length of text that has upper-case letters instead of lower-case ones and vice-versa? If you are using Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint, then … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – formatting pasted information

Posted on March 13, 2024 by jdonbavand

A client was copying information from one document into another Word document. The paragraph in the document to be added had shading round it, which was causing problems when copied over as shading was not wanted in the new document. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – using shortcut keys for symbols

Posted on June 28, 2023 by jdonbavand

Are there symbols that you use on a regular basis but going to Insert – Symbol and then finding them takes some time?? In that case you can assign shortcut keys to your preferred symbols – you will have to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – Superscripts and Subscripts

Posted on June 21, 2023 by jdonbavand

I was training a group of people recently who work wit the farming community. They needed to be able to do things like km3 in Microsoft Word but were not aware of the Superscript and Subscript icons on the Home … Continue reading →

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Don’t like the Word 365 Find facility – try using the Navigation pane instead

Posted on May 30, 2023 by jdonbavand

The Find facility in Word 365 is found on the Home tab in the Editing group. This opens up a pane on the right of your window. Type in what you are looking for and press Enter. I typed in … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – why is one of my bullet points showing in a different colour?

Posted on April 5, 2023 by jdonbavand

Occasionally you might find that one of your bullet points or one of the numbers in a numbered list is bold when the rest of them aren’t or in a different colour than the rest. Trying to change it for … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office – finding a command button on the Ribbon

Posted on February 7, 2023 by jdonbavand

Sometimes it is difficult to remember which ribbon a particular command button is on. Rather than going from tab to tab, try typing in the Search box on the Title bar of the application. So, if for example you are … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Word – deleting a whole page

Posted on November 18, 2022 by jdonbavand

I was asked the other day how to delete a whole page in Word – it isn’t always easy to just select the relevant text. First, click anywhere in the page to be deleted, then on the Home tab, in … Continue reading →

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