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I appreciate the .pdf of this article which I can share with my students. Each of the five tips can really make a difference in Word document production!
Thanks! Stuff they don't teach you in school - getting rid of the auto border would have been nice to know while I was typing all those essays. 
They are all the old tips which I have been using for long long time. There is nothing new, but a collection of few OLD tips.
Thanks for the .pdf version and a big thanks for NOT putting it in that annoying slide show form so many of your articles are in.
Thanks for making that comment. Slideshow presentation of information on websites is possibly the most over-used, irritating thing to hit the Internet since pop up ads.
Column selection in Word 2007 [ say, when one's wireless mouse battery has died ] can be done with CTL-Shift-F8 . Worked in Word 5.0 for DOS
Sure they are old tips, BUT, since many users can't spell DOS let alone define it (other than as a network attack) it is well worth while rehashing them periodically. For those users, they are very often only familiar with mousing and almost entirely ignore the F-Keys and their various combinations.
My collection of Word specific keyboard and mouse tips is a 170pg, 3.5MB doc file!
Techtrax has this very useful 20 page, user sortable table of default Word Commands and associated shortcut combos: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=137
DF agerstrom already made the point I was about Autocorrect Options ... button
My collection of Word specific keyboard and mouse tips is a 170pg, 3.5MB doc file!
Techtrax has this very useful 20 page, user sortable table of default Word Commands and associated shortcut combos: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=137
DF agerstrom already made the point I was about Autocorrect Options ... button
We could work even more efficiently if Word adopted some of the practices of WordPerfect, and I do not just mean Reveal Codes...
1. Ability to justify sections of text in same row independently, e.g. in a header allowing subject to be left-justified and page-numbering right-justified (also with simple "Flush right" right-click in front of the relevant text).
2. Much greater flexibility in bullet-point and paragraph-numbering layout - not being forced into what a Word programmer thinks is right.
3. Ability to change fonts or font elements in swathes of text by insertion of desired properties at start point of change, with everything thereafter displaying the new properties. (Of course in case only a section needs to be changed then that text should be highlighted, as in Word, or... just insert previous or new properties at new starting point.)
4. Generally more layout flexibility, less nannying.
There are more but I cannot think of them now. Furthermore, I no longer consider myself a power user as I mostly produce simple (or even just text) documents and I use Word on a number occasions, so I cannot comment on relative handling of contents lists, indexes and concordance files (as I have never tried the indexes and concordance files in Word).
Without thinking further, the three specific things I miss most in Word are
- Reveal Codes (that alone justifies WP for many people)
- More flexible approach to bullet-points and para numbering (2 in list above)
- Independent justification (1) in list above)
I should also like a less prescriptive approach to formatting etc.
Reminder: I still work with WP 2000, not the latest WordPerfect Office X6 (not to be confused with the new cut-down Corel Office). As regards Word I moved from 2000 to 2010 about 2 years ago.
2. Much greater flexibility in bullet-point and paragraph-numbering layout - not being forced into what a Word programmer thinks is right.
3. Ability to change fonts or font elements in swathes of text by insertion of desired properties at start point of change, with everything thereafter displaying the new properties. (Of course in case only a section needs to be changed then that text should be highlighted, as in Word, or... just insert previous or new properties at new starting point.)
4. Generally more layout flexibility, less nannying.
There are more but I cannot think of them now. Furthermore, I no longer consider myself a power user as I mostly produce simple (or even just text) documents and I use Word on a number occasions, so I cannot comment on relative handling of contents lists, indexes and concordance files (as I have never tried the indexes and concordance files in Word).
Without thinking further, the three specific things I miss most in Word are
- Reveal Codes (that alone justifies WP for many people)
- More flexible approach to bullet-points and para numbering (2 in list above)
- Independent justification (1) in list above)
I should also like a less prescriptive approach to formatting etc.
Reminder: I still work with WP 2000, not the latest WordPerfect Office X6 (not to be confused with the new cut-down Corel Office). As regards Word I moved from 2000 to 2010 about 2 years ago.
...and Save All (which I've added to the Command Bar) saves all unsaved files /without/ prompting. It's a great time-saver.
One of the reasons people aren't familiar with these shortcuts is that they don't bother to browse the documentation. How many people reading this /still/ put double lines between paragraphs? If you do, you have no right to complain Word's features (or lack thereof).
One of the reasons people aren't familiar with these shortcuts is that they don't bother to browse the documentation. How many people reading this /still/ put double lines between paragraphs? If you do, you have no right to complain Word's features (or lack thereof).
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