Word Tips Archives - Out of the Hat Ltd

2010-11-10T11:02:28+00:00

One of the key skills in using Word is to manage white space on your page. Look at any magazine or newspaper article, advert, or other piece of printed text, and you'll see that the white space helps you read it. Often, there is a small amount of white space between each paragraph, which helps the reader separate these blocks of text, and thereby helps with understanding. May people achieve this by simply adding a blank line into their text, which has several negative effects, as well as only being one size (unless you go through the manual pain of resizing [...]

Styles are the key to using Word efficiently

2010-09-21T18:15:15+01:00

If you don't know about Styles in Word, you should. When I discovered Styles, they fundamentally changed how I use Word. To give you an idea, with Styles you can Apply your formatting (any formatting!) with a single click Ensure consistency of formatting Automatically generate tables of contents Move large chunks of document with a single click Make your document text flow more efficiently ...and much, much more. Microsoft obviously believe that styles need highlighting, because they have moved from being an obscure menu item to the middle of the Home tab. If you've never done anything with styles, you need [...]

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Create a space between paragraphs

Styles are the key to using Word efficiently

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