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Adding a Table of Contents to a Word Document

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Adding a table of contents (TOC) to a Word document can make your Microsoft Word document look professional.You might want to create a report or a free e-book to give away, or maybe you are making something for your job. Either way a table of contents added to a document is a fantastic way to [...]

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How to make an anchor text link in a Word document?

August 26, 2010

What is an Anchor text link? When writing a word document and attempting to insert a hyperlink, it always looks better if you use anchor text instead of a messy URL. For example instead of putting just http://www.wordpresswebsitehost.com you can put something like this WordPress Website Host. Obviously it looks more professional using anchor text [...]

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Add a watermark to your Word 2007 document

May 31, 2010

Sometimes when you have an important document you need to place a water mark on it to stop people from copying or sharing the information. Maybe you have an E-book that you sell and you want to remind your customers that is cannot be shared around freely. Either way putting a watermark on a document [...]

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How to link to a heading, title or bookmark in a word 2007 document

May 31, 2010

When you are writing a long Microsoft word document, sometimes you need to link to parts of the document instead of having to find different sections manually. This allows a reader to jump from one section to another by clicking a link. You might have a table of contents at the beginning of your document [...]

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How to make headings and titles in a word 2007 document?

May 31, 2010

I do not know about you, but I like documents with clear headings or subheadings that label sections in a document. It makes it easier to see sections that interest you and it defines the area you are reading. In Microsoft word 2007 it has been made so easy to format text into headings and [...]

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How to remove text formatting in word 2007 document

May 31, 2010

When you are creating a document, if you want it to look professional, you need to have the text formatted in a uniform manner. Having different text formatting throughout a document just looks terrible. See the screenshot below. There are a few different formats of test here and it just looks messy. This happened because [...]

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Type abbreviations and use autocorrect to finish words for you

May 31, 2010

If you write all the time like me you will love this little trick. Well its not a trick, I am just using autocorrect in Microsoft Word to my advantage. I am going to show you how to make Word translate your text abbreviations you use into finished words. Yes, Word is going to finish [...]

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Select all text with a similar format style in word 2007 document

May 31, 2010

In a Microsoft word 2007 document it has this great feature that enables you to select text throughout the document that has a similar formatting style. This means that you can select all the headings or subheadings throughout a word 2007 document and then change their style and font all in one go. How to [...]

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How to use a custom watermark on different pages in your document

May 31, 2010

When you add a watermark to a document in Word 2007, by default, it will be added to your entire document. Therefore if you add a watermark to your document it seems that you have no control over where it will appear. Sometimes this is not what you want. Having the words confidential or do [...]

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How to save a word 2007 document to be compatible with Word 97-2003

May 31, 2010

When I first started using Microsoft Word 2007 I had no idea that the files were not compatible with earlier versions of Word. It was not until I had sent a document created using Word 2007 in an email and received complaints from recipients not being able to open the file. At first I thought [...]

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How to open a word document in Photoshop?

May 29, 2010

A Microsoft word document cannot be simply opened in Photoshop. Word documents are saved in .doc or .docx file formats which are not compatible with Photoshop. Photoshop deals with .psd, .jpeg, .gif, and other various image file formats. This is probably a strange tutorial as I usually talk about cutting out images using Photoshop. Free [...]

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