Word: format painter
Self-tutoring about using Microsoft Word: the tutor mentions using the format painter. The format painter is the paintbrush that appears in the Home menu of Word. On the version I use, it’s in the top left corner. It’s a great …
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Microsoft Word: sorting paragraphs
Self-tutoring about Microsoft Word: the tutor mentions an impressive thing it can do. Yesterday I was working on the references (APA style) for a paper. I finally had them all typed, two pages of them, but I had done them …
Word: put a line above a table or list on top row
Self-tutoring about Word: the tutor mentions a trick he uses. Sometimes I find that, if I’ve got a table or list at the top of a page in Word, I can’t add lines of text above it, because they become …
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Word processors: LibreOffice Writer: typing French accents, part0
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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Word: separating paragraphs
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.
Word: 100 undos?
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 …
Word: underline color
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 …
MS Word: alt-x
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. …
MS Word: autocorrecting and auto formatting, part 0
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: removing all hyperlinks with Microsoft Word 2016
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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