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How To Draw A Curved Arrow In Word
Using arrows in your Microsoft Word document are a good way to bring your reader’s attention to a particular point. Straight arrows are good, arrows with kinks and corners in them might work, but sometimes a curved arrow is just what the doctor ordered. One of the reasons that curved arrows are so good is that they can bend around other important elements in your document and avoid obscuring them.
Full StoryTurn Off The Mini Toolbar In Word 2010
The mini toolbar appears surreptitiously when you select text, and is designed to offer commonly used commands at the click of the mouse to speed up your workflow. It’s very cleverly done: as soon as you select some text, you’ll notice a very faded out small toolbar to the top right of the selected text. As you gradually move the cursor towards the mini toolbar, it solidifies and becomes clearer. You can then click on any of the commands to apply formatting to the selected text.
Full StoryInsert A Header In Microsoft Word 2010
Inserting a header in Word 2010 is very much like inserting a footer, so we shall cover both in this tutorial. When we look at inserting footers, we’ll also discover how to add page numbers to each page, too.
Full StoryDisable Paste Options In Word 2010
By default, when you paste text that you have copied from elsewhere, the paste options toolbar appears. Small though it is, many people feel that this panel is an intrusion and that often it gets in the way of other text on the page.
Full StoryTurn Off Insert In Word
By default, insert is turned on in Microsoft Word. This means that if you start typing in the middle of a sentence, the text you type is inserted wheree the cursor is and it pushes the rest of the sentence to the right. This is how you’d expect Word to work, so it makes sense that this is the default. However, sometimes you need to turn insert off in Word. And this is where it gets confusing.
Full StoryChanging Case In Word
There are many situations where you might want to change the case of some text on a grand scale. If you have to do more than just capitalise the first letter of one sentence, you might need some kind of command to do all the case changing automatically for you. For example, suppose you have copied several sentences of text with all letters capitalised, and you want the text to be all lowercase apart from the first letter of each sentence. Retyping the text in the correct case would be a real chore.
Full StoryTabs In Word
Tabs in Microsoft Word are the source of much confusion for many users. However, using them can give you a great deal of flexibility when laying out your document for maximum readability. To use tabs effectively, it’s important to understand the basics before you make a hash of things! Read on…
Full StoryCreate A Copyright Symbol In Word
There is an easy way to insert a copyright symbol in your Word documents, and there is a hard way. Let’s look at the hard way first!
Full StoryColumns Of Text In Word 2010
Often, presenting a section of text in multiple columns can aid readability, add interest, and conserve space in your Word document. Having your text appearing in several columns can also give it a “newspaper” feel.
Full StoryWord Save As PDF
In previous versions of Microsoft Word we needed third party utilities to enable us to save our documents in PDF (Portable Document Format). Word 2010, however, has this facility built in.
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