106 tips with Microsoft Office - Part 3

Microsoft Word

Draw a straight line

You can easily draw a horizontal line of your text in a very simple way as follows
- You type consecutively 3 dashes (-) and press Enter you will have a single line.
- You type consecutively 3 underscores (_) and press Enter you will have a bold line
- You type consecutively 3 equal signs (=) and press Enter you will have a double line.

Computers are available in Word

Did you know that you can add a computer to Word? Yes, it is absolutely possible and will help you get a lot more convenient in your work.

In MS Word into View | Toolbars | Customize or you can right-click any toolbar and select Customize. In the Customize window - you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with this window in the previous section of the article - select Tools in the Categories on the left and select the Tool Calculate icon in the Commands pane on the right. Click and hold the left mouse button on the Tools Calculate icon and drag and drop any tool you like.

Now you can easily perform calculations in Word by typing the calculation and then selecting the entire calculation, click on Tools Calculate then press Ctrl-V to paste the result.

Circulate Smart Tags and Spelling, Track changes

Have you ever been bothered by the red underlined lines in blue? You do not know where it came from? It is the function of spell checking and grammatical error checking in MS Word. This feature is only effective for English documents, and for Vietnamese documents, it is extremely annoying. To remove this hassle, go to Tools | Options and then switch to Spelling & Gammar. In this section, remove the check mark before Check spelling as you type and Check grammar as you type, then Ok is done.

Smart Tags can be said to be one of the new features that are relatively effective in recent versions of Word. However, many times users also feel uncomfortable about the date tags, phone numbers, copy-paste . continuously appear. If you don't like Smart Tags, go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options and switch to Smart Tags in the AutoCorrect Options window and uncheck the Smart Tag categories you don't want to appear.

There is another feature in Word that also has a lot of annoying annoying red lines that are Track changes. This feature is really effective when you let others edit your text. These changes will be recorded by Track changes and listed immediately in the text. To leave, go to View and then uncheck the Markup before it is finished.

What does Status Bar have for you?

Have you ever noticed the status bar in Word? It also has a lot of interesting things. But if your Word never has a Status bar, go to Tools | Options switch to View. In this section, notice the Show section and check the Status bar.

The status bar is just like its name showing you information about your text, your current page order, section, line, mouse pointer coordinates . Double-click on the Order Number of the page you will call the Go to menu.

Besides, on the status bar, you can see REC - TRK - EXT - OVR. Double click on any item you will turn on that feature. Double-clicking on REC will enable macro recording - also called automatic operation, TRK will help you keep track of any changes you have made to the original document, allowing EXT to choose Text that just uses the up and down arrow keys to the left and OVR will turn on the override feature - that is, each character you type will replace the adjacent character instead of appearing right next to it.

AutoText customization

106 tips with Microsoft Office - Part 3 Picture 1 You probably noticed a lot when Word automatically replaced and suggested to help you with phrases like "Best Wishes", 'Best regards' . This is Word's AutoText feature. You can completely customize the list of automatically replaced MS Word words to help you. Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options and then switch to AutoText. In the AutoText window, type the phrase you want Word to automatically help you insert the Enter autotext entries here and click on Add. To remove any autotext, select it and click on Delete.