Category: Word
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Rotate an Image
There are two ways to rotate an image: Fixed rotation: Use the Rotate option found in the Picture Format tab Arrange group. From the menu, you can choose to rotate the image 90 degrees to the left or right or to flip the image horizontally or vertically. Free rotation: Use the mouse to grab the…
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Cropping an Image in Word
You’re likely already familiar with the terms “crop” and “cropping” an image. It’s when you make an image smaller by eliminating content rather than sizing the image down. Like when you have to remove your cheating-scumbag ex from all your pictures or just because there’s too much space around the subject. See examples below. To…
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Resizing an Image in Word
As graphics programs go, Word is not among them. However, there are some basic adjustments you can perform within the program. For any major editing Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, or even MS Paint are better performers. Yeah, I said it, Paint. For this section, you will frequently use the Picture Format tab, which only appears when…
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Commenting in Comments – the Badness
Now that you’ve learned how to isolate reviewers so that you can skip through a specified user’s changes and comments, it may seem obvious why it’s bad to leave notes in someone else’s comments. In the example below, you’ll notice Laura (LB) has responded to my comment within the same bubble. If we were to…
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Changing View Options
As people make changes, such as deleting content, Word automatically strikes through the text and changes the color of the text. When a user changes the font options such as making something bold or italic, a balloon will appear at the right margin of the window. If markups such as these get to be too…
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Page Breaks as Formatting Options
Say you have a header style that you want only to appear at the beginning of a page. You can add a page break as part of your paragraph style. Begin by clicking in the paragraph or style you want to format. Then, from the Layout ribbon, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher. Then, choose…
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Using Section Breaks with Headers and Footers
By default, your document footers will have the same content including pages with section breaks. This works for most people, but one reason to have section breaks is to change the look of the footer for say different chapters or document parts (e.g., a letter has one footer different from attachments, but they’re all in…
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Page Breaks in Word
Word provides many break options with the most frequently used being the Page Break. If you’ve never used a page or the other type of break options, this post will provide information on each. First, to find the break options available go to the Layout ribbon, select Breaks from the Page Setup group. A dropdown…
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Lines vs. Borders
I received the following form a friend the other day. A simple enough form. The lines aren’t even vertically nor horizontally but all we need to do is add our information. The lines are fixable. Until you type in the form that is. Yes, looks… terrible. Awful. I’m sure it’s acceptable but… it could look…
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PDF It
Ever go to save your Word document as a PDF and Word doesn’t like you that day because it keeps removing your links? Or you printed your document to PDF, and again all your links are gone? Let’s understand what the difference is between the two actions – no let’s back up further: there’s a…
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