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- 15 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Beginners
- Open the Office Window on Two Different Views
- Move or Hide Shapes in a Word Document
- Combine Portrait and Landscape Pages in a Word Document
- How to Fight Back When Word Draws a Line Across the Page
- Drag Document Sections in Word's Navigation Pane
- Browse Search Results in Word
- Close Word Panes from the Keyboard
- Insert Screen Clips in Word
- Recover Unsaved Documents
- Create a Default Header or Default Page Numbering
- Create Default Page Numbering that Starts on the Second Page
- Change Other Layout Defaults in Word
- Put the Autoformat Command on the Quick Access Toolbar
- Make Word Warn You When You Save or Print a File with Tracked Revisions
- Turn Off Word's Red and Green Squiggly Lines
Who doesn't use Microsoft Word? The word-processing software is one of the most popular and well-known programs worldwide, having been with us in some incarnation since 1983. It's used in office workplaces, grade schools, universities, hospitals, and homes. Such a widespread tool should be easy to master, you'd think. But no. There are some quirky things that Microsoft Word does that frustrate people the world over daily. And there are other things that you want Word to do that seem impossible. Countless hours can quickly swirl down the drain if you get stuck trying to figure how to describe the problem so you can search for an answer, let alone actually solve it.
In this article, we've collected 15 essential tricks for beginners using Microsoft Word. "Beginner" doesn't necessarily mean you're new to the software. It just means you haven't yet had finesse your documents, with landscape and portrait pages in the same file, for example, or adjust your default page number. We'll show you how to turn off spell-check and grammar-check. And we'll explain how to remove that line that appears when you type one too many hyphens in a row—without ripping your hair out.
Each how-to tip is accompanied by a screenshot so that you can see exactly where in the menu panels some of these functions are hidden. Many of these tricks will become second nature after you practice them a few times. In the long run, they could potentially save you hundreds of hours of work in, thousands of keystrokes, and a whole lot of agita. You can either read our tips in the slideshow below or page through them in the Table of Contents.—Next: Open the Office Window on Two Different Views >
For more Office tips, see:
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• 15 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 10 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Intermediate Users
• 10 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 5 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 8 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Intermediate and Advanced Users
• 9 Essential Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Tips
• 10 Essential Microsoft Access 2010 Tips for Beginners