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Citing Sources
A bibliography is a list of works cited in a piece of writing. Professional researchers, scholars and students routinely write research papers that contain bibliographies. Citing sources in the proper format (that is, the format your school requires, or the format expected by members of your profession) can be a daunting task because there are [...]
Full StoryMake A Resume In Word 2010
Word 2010 has all the tools to enable you to create a good looking resume from scratch. However, it will save you a heap of time if you take advantage of Word’s huge selection of templates on which to base your new resume. At the last count there were nearly 100 resume templates that you [...]
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AutoText and AutoCorrect in Word 2010 perform similar functions, but are actually quite different. Office users often, mistakenly, use the terms interchangeably. AutoText AutoText in Word is the feature that displays helpful tooltips while you are typing text. If you press Enter when you see such a tooltip, Word will accept the suggested completion. For [...]
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If you run your own website, you may be interested in converting Word documents to HTML. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language that web pages are written in. This isn’t a HTML tutorial, so we won’t look at how to code in HTML, only how to convert Word to HTML. Some people use Microsoft [...]
Full StorySuperscripts And Subscripts In Word 2010
Typing Subscripts And Superscripts In Microsoft Word Subscripts and superscripts are numbers that appear in a smaller font size than the main text and are postioned slightly higher or lower than the baseline. A subscript appears lower, and a superscript appears higher than the baseline. Subscripts are often used to represent chemicals formulas, whilst superscripts [...]
Full StoryAdd A Bookmark In Word 2010
A bookmark in Word 2010 identifies a location or selection of text in your document. You might bookmark text for a variety of reasons: to quickly navigate to the text. to mark text out for your own purposes. For example, you might want to bookmark content you think you should revise later. to link to [...]
Full StoryMake Word 2010 Talk
Did you know that Microsoft Word 2010 can read your document aloud to you? Admittedly, the text is spoken using a very robotic sounding voice, but at least you can proof “read” your document with your eyes closed! The way we’re going to demonstrate speech in Word 2010 is by adding the Speak button to [...]
Full StoryThemes In Word Is Grayed Out
Many users experience the problem of having the Themes button grayed out in Word 2010 and don’t know how to fix it. The Themes button lives on the Page Layout tab and looks like this, when available: When it’s grayed out though, you won’t be able to use it and it looks like this: Notice [...]
Full StoryHow To Embed Fonts In Word 2010
You have a brand new spangly font that you want to use on just about every piece of text in your Word document. And you do. But you’re worried about the people who don’t have that font installed on their system. How will they see your fantastic document? The fear is that the document might be viewed as a crowd of random characters that strike fear into the heart of your readers.
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Although Microsoft Word is not an image editor, it can do some pretty impressive things to photos you insert into your documents. To showcase some of the image editing features of Word 2010, let’s look at an example. First of all insert an image into a blank Word document: go to the Insert tab and [...]
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