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Self-tutoring about typing in French: the tutor begins…. I’m using my old Linux box, circa 2017, with LibreOffice. Some of my typing is in French. However, this is a laptop, and doesn’t exactly have a French keyboard. Actually getting the …
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Self-tutoring about Word: the tutor makes an observation. In my experience, in Word, for two paragraphs to behave as if they’re distinct, there must be a Return keystroke between them, and not Shift-Return.
Self-tutoring about Microsoft Word: the tutor makes an observation. Today, working with Word, I went down a rabbit hole, then didn’t like the result. I wanted to return to the earlier stage of the work, but could I? After an …
Self-tutoring about using MS Word: the tutor mentions underline color. I asked someone the other day if they realize that, in MS Word, you can underline text in a different color from the text itself. While they’ve used Word much …
Self-tutoring about Word: the tutor mentions a function for inserting special characters. The key sequence alt-x is very useful for inserting symbols in MS-Word. After entering the character’s code number, pressing alt-x will replace those digits with the actual character. …
Self-tutoring about MS Word: the tutor philosophizes…. I believe that MS Word’s auto formatting features are meant to be helpful, but often I find they aren’t. It calls me to wonder…should I be doing things differently, so that MS Word’s …
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Home computer use means, for me, constant self-tutoring. The tutor mentions a trick to remove all hyperlinks from a Word document at once. I do this with Word 2016. Does it work with other versions? I don’t know. To remove …
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Home computer use can mean self-tutoring. The tutor mentions how to assemble .docx files and .pdf files into a single one. I was posed the problem of assembling .pdf files with .docx ones into a single file. It can be …
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Tutoring business English, you might know of this preference of Word. The tutor shares a discovery about the abbreviation for Thursday. A few days back, I was typing on Word 2016. Thur was marked as a misspell, but of course …
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Tutoring Business English, date format is of interest. The tutor shows a date format available in English (United States), but perhaps not in English (Canada), in Microsoft Word 2007. In my April 14 post I mention that I prefer the …
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