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TIPS AND TRICKS FOR  MICROSOFT WORD 2000
1. ACCESSING HEADERS AND FOOTERS QUICKLY 7
2. ADDING A FOLDER OR DOCUMENT TO FAVORITES 7
3. ADDING A FRAME TO A WEB PAGE 7
4. ADDING A MISSPELLED WORD TO AUTOCORRECT 8
5. ADDING A NOTE CONTINUATION SEPARATOR TO FOOTNOTES 8
6. ADDING A SHADOW TO AN OBJECT 8
7. ADDING A VIDEO CLIP TO A WEB PAGE 9
8. ADDING A WATERMARK TO A DOCUMENT 9
9. ADDING A WEB DIVIDER TO A WEB PAGE 10
10. ADDING AUTOCORRECT WORDS 10
11. ADDING AUTOSHAPES TO A DOCUMENT 11
12. ADDING CAPTIONS TO GRAPHICS IN A DOCUMENT 11
13. ADDING CLIP ART TO THE FAVORITES CATEGORY 11
14. ADDING CLIPART TO AN ENVELOPE 12
15. ADDING EFFECTS TO TEXT 12
16. ADDING FILL COLOR TO A TEXT BOX 12
17. ADDING GRADIENT EFFECTS TO A BACKGROUND 13
18. ADDING LINES BETWEEN COLUMNS 13
19. ADDING LINES BETWEEN COLUMNS 13
20. ADDING OR REMOVING TOOLBAR BUTTONS 14
21. ADDING SHADE TO A PARAGRAPH 14
22. ADDING SHADING TO A PARAGRAPH 14
23. ADDING SHADING TO TABLE CELLS 14
24. ADDING SOUND TO A WEB PAGE 15
25. A BETTER WAY TO USE ACCENT MARKS 15
26. A DESCRIPTION OF HEADER AND FOOTER COMMANDS--PART 1 AND 2 15
27. A FASTER WAY TO PRINT MULTIPLE COPIES OF ENVELOPES 16
28. A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR COLUMN BREAKS 16
29. A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR INSERTING NOTES 17
30. A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR REPEATING COMMANDS 
31. A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR SELECTING A SENTENCE 
32. A NOTE ABOUT NORMAL VIEW 17
33. A NOTE ON CHANGING MARGIN SETTINGS 18
34. A NOTE ON CONVERTING TEXT TO A TABLE 18
35. A NOTE ON SPLITTING TABLE CELLS 19
36. A QUICK KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR CHANGING THE CASE OF A WORD 19
37. A QUICK METHOD FOR DRAWING LINES 19
38. A QUICK METHOD FOR REMOVING TAB STOPS 20
39. A QUICK WAY TO ACCESS FIND AND REPLACE 20
40. A QUICK WAY TO ACCESS PAGE SETUP 20
41. A QUICK WAY TO EDIT FOOTNOTES 20
42. A QUICK WAY TO EDIT HYPERLINKS 20
43. A QUICK WAY TO FORMAT ADJACENT PARAGRAPHS 21
44. A QUICK WAY TO JUMP TO A PAGE 21
45. A RULE OF THUMB FOR NUMBERING PAGES 21
46. A SHORTCUT FOR USING THE FIND COMMAND 22
47. A USEFUL OFFICE TOOL 22
48. ADDING THE DELIVERY POINT BARCODE TO AN ENVELOPE 22
49. ADDING THE ENGLISH POUND SYMBOL AS A KEYBOARD COMMAND 23
50. ADDING YOUR OWN SHORTCUT KEYS TO SYMBOLS 23
51. ADJUSTING CELL MARGINS IN A TABLE 23
52. ADJUSTING CELL MARGINS IN TABLES 24
53. ADJUSTING LABEL PROPERTIES 24
54. ADJUSTING THE SIZE OF BULLETS 24
55. ALIGNING HEADER TEXT VERTICALLY 25
56. ALLOWING OTHERS TO COMMENT ON BUT NOT REVISE YOUR DOCUMENTS 25
57. ALTERING AUTOCORRECT TO ALLOW FOR TWO INITIAL CAPITALS 25
58. AN INTRODUCTION TO LAYERS 26
59. ANIMATING TEXT 26
60. APPLYING ACCENTS TO LETTERS 26
61. ARRANGING HEADINGS FOR YOUR DOCUMENTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER 27
62. ASSIGNING A KEYWORD TO CLIP ART 27
63. ASSIGNING A TITLE FOR A WORD DOCUMENT SAVED AS A WEB PAGE 27
64. AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTING A WORD MACRO WHEN WORD LAUNCHES 28
65. AUTOMATICALLY RESIZING TABLE CELLS TO FIT CONTENTS 28
66. BRINGING BACK THE OFFICE CLIPBOARD 28
67. BROWSING A DOCUMENT 28
68. CALLING TOOLBARS WITH A TOOLBAR 29
69. CHANGING A COLOR CLIP ART IMAGE TO GRAYSCALE 
70. CHANGING AUTORECOVER SETTINGS 29
71. CHANGING FONT SIZES FOR AN ENTIRE DOCUMENT 30
72. CHANGING HEADERS IN A DOCUMENT 30
73. CHANGING PAPER SIZE 30
74. CHANGING THE DATE FORMAT 31
75. CHANGING THE DEFAULT DIRECTORY FOR SAVED DOCUMENTS 31
76. CHANGING THE DEFAULT FONT SIZE 31
77. CHANGING THE DEFAULT PAGE LAYOUT OPTIONS 32
78. CHANGING THE DEFAULT SAVE FOLDER 32
79. CHANGING THE IMAGE FOR A TOOLBAR BUTTON 32
80. CHANGING THE MARGINS OF A TEXT BOX 33
81. CHANGING THE NUMBER OF RECENTLY USED FILES 33
82. CHANGING THE POSITION OF A VIDEO CLIP ON A WEB PAGE 
83. CHANGING YOUR DEFAULT FONT 34
84. CHANGING YOUR PRINT TRAY 34
85. CHARTS--PART 1 TO 5: AN INTRODUCTION 34
86. CHECKING FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC WORDS 36
87. CHECKING YOUR DOCUMENT FOR CLICHES 36
88. CHOOSING TO PRINT IN REVERSE PAGE ORDER 36
89. CONVERTING NUMBERED LISTS TO TEXT 37
90. COPYING AND PASTING SECTIONS 37
91. COPYING TEXT BOXES 37
92. CORRECTING ACCIDENTAL USAGE OF CAPS LOCK 38
93. CORRECTING YOUR COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS AUTOMATICALLY 38
94. CREATING A CHAPBOOK WITH HALF-SIZE PAGES 38
95. CREATING A HANGING INDENT FOR LISTS 39
96. CREATING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR PASTE SPECIAL 
97. CREATING A NEW LABEL FROM SCRATCH 39
98. CREATING A NEW WORD DOCUMENT FROM THE WINDOWS DESKTOP 40
99. CREATING BACKUP COPIES 40
100. CREATING BACKUP COPIES OF DOCUMENTS 40
101. CREATING FLOATING TOOLBARS FROM MENUS 41
102. CREATING MULTIPLE COPIES OF AN ENVELOPE 41
103. CREATING NEW DEFAULT MARGIN SETTINGS 41
104. CREATING PARAGRAPHS IN A NUMBERED LIST 42
105. CUSTOM MENUS--PART 1 TO 4 42
106. DECODING THE STYLE SYMBOLS 43
107. DELETING A TABLE 43
108. DELETING ALL FOOTNOTES OR ENDNOTES 44
109. DIFFERENT KINDS OF SECTION BREAKS 44
110. DIFFERENT ODD AND EVEN HEADERS 44
111. DISABLING BROWSER-SPECIFIC FEATURES WHEN CREATING A WEB PAGE 45
112. DISTRIBUTING TABLE COLUMNS EVENLY 45
113. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 1 TO 6: TRACKING CHANGES 45
114. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 2 OF 6: ACCEPTING OR REJECTING CHANGES INDIVIDUALLY 46
115. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 3 OF 6: ACCEPTING OR REJECTING CHANGES ALL AT ONCE 46
116. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 4 OF 6: TRACKING CHANGES WITHOUT HIGHLIGHTING REVISIONS 46
117. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 5 OF 6: MERGING VERSIONS OF AN EDITED DOCUMENT 47
118. DOCUMENT REVISIONS--PART 6 OF 6: ADJUSTING FORMATTING OF REVISIONS 47
119. EDITING A FOOTNOTE QUICKLY 47
120. EDITING A TEMPLATE 48
121. EDITING WORDS IN YOUR CUSTOM DICTIONARY 48
122. ENABLING LINE NUMBERING 48
123. ENABLING TOGGLE KEYS 49
124. ENSURING THAT TABLE ROWS DON'T BREAK ACROSS PAGES 
125. ENTERING PROPERTIES AUTOMATICALLY 49
126. EXPANDING AND CONDENSING CHARACTER SPACING 
127. EXPANDING AND CONDENSING HEADINGS TO MAKE THEM FIT ACROSS THE PAGE 50
128. FAXING A WORD DOCUMENT 50
129. FIELDS AND HTML DOCUMENTS 51
130. FINE-TUNING A SHADOW 51
131. FIXING THE DATE 51
132. FRAME BORDER SETTINGS FOR WEB PAGES WITH FRAMES 52
133. GAUGING ROW HEIGHT WHEN RESIZING TABLES 52
134. GETTING A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF LINES PER PAGE 52
135. GETTING DOCUMENT PROPERTIES WITHOUT OPENING THE DOCUMENT 53
136. GETTING RID OF THE OFFICE CLIPBOARD 53
137. HIDING SPELLING ERRORS FOR A SPECIFIC DOCUMENT 53
138. HIDING TABLE GRIDLINES 54
139. HIGHLIGHTING WORDS IN A DOCUMENT 54
140. HOW TO AVOID CAPITALIZING AFTER PAGE BREAKS 54
141. INCLUDING FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES IN A WORD COUNT 54
142. INDENTING PARAGRAPHS AUTOMATICALLY 55
143. INSERTING A BACKGROUND SOUND INTO A WEB PAGE 
144. INSERTING A BORDER ABOVE A FOOTER 55
145. INSERTING A COLUMN BREAK 56
146. INSERTING A DROP CAP 56
147. INSERTING A DROP CAP INTO A WORD DOCUMENT 56
148. INSERTING A PICTURE FROM A SCANNER 57
149. INSERTING A TEXT BOX INTO A DOCUMENT 57
150. INSERTING AN EXISTING DOCUMENT INTO THE CURRENT DOCUMENT 57
151. INSERTING AND MOVING GRAPHICS FILES 57
152. INSERTING BLANK SPACE ABOVE A TABLE 58
153. INSERTING EM DASHES AUTOMATICALLY 58
154. INSERTING LINE BREAKS WITHOUT CREATING A NEW PARAGRAPH 59
155. INSERTING NUMBERED FIELDS INTO A PARAGRAPH 59
156. INSERTING ONE DOCUMENT INTO ANOTHER 59
157. INSERTING RECORDED COMMENTS INTO DOCUMENTS 
158. INSERTING ROWS AND COLUMNS INTO A TABLE 60
159. INSERTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS 60
160. INSERTING THE DATE INTO THE DOCUMENT FOOTER 
161. INSERTING THE TIME INTO THE DOCUMENT FOOTER 61
162. INSERTING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES IN A DOCUMENT FOOTER 61
163. INSERTING WRITTEN COMMENTS INTO DOCUMENTS 
164. INSTALLING A PRINTER TWICE FOR SPECIAL PRINT SETTINGS 
165. JUMPING TO A SPECIFIC PAGE 62
166. KEEPING LISTS FROM BREAKING ACROSS PAGES 63
167. KEEPING TABLE ROWS FROM BREAKING ACROSS PAGES 
168. KEEPING TABLE ROWS TOGETHER 63
169. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR ALIGNING TEXT 63
170. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR BULLETS 64
171. LAYING OUT TEXT ON AN ENVELOPE 64
172. LINKING TEXT BOXES 65
173. LOOKING AT DOCUMENT PROPERTIES FROM THE OPEN WINDOW 65
174. MAKING A DOCUMENT REVIEW A TASK 65
175. MAKING A QUICK EDIT DURING PRINT PREVIEW MODE 
176. MAKING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE 66
177. MAKING AN OBJECT 3-D 66
178. MAKING COLUMNS THE SAME LENGTH 66
179. MAKING SURE A PARAGRAPH APPEARS AT THE TOP OF A PAGE 
180. MERGING CELLS TO CREATE A SUBHEADING IN A TABLE 
181. MERGING TWO TABLES 67
182. MOVING A WORD DOCUMENT TO POWERPOINT 68
183. MOVING ENDNOTES TO THE END OF A SECTION 68
184. MOVING OBJECTS BETWEEN LAYERS 68
185. MOVING TABLE ROWS QUICKLY IN OUTLINE VIEW 69
186. MOVING TEXT BOXES 69
187. NONBREAKING HYPHENS 69
188. NOTES ON STYLES--PART 1 OF 5: BASING ONE STYLE ON ANOTHER 70
189. NOTES ON STYLES--PART 2 OF 5: DELETING STYLES 70
190. NOTES ON STYLES--PART 3 OF 5: UPDATING STYLES AUTOMATICALLY 70
191. NOTES ON STYLES--PART 4 OF 5: COPYING STYLES BETWEEN DOCUMENTS 71
192. NOTES ON STYLES--PART 5 OF 5: TURNING OFF AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNED STYLES 71
193. NUMBERING PAGES IN THE RIGHT AND LEFT MARGINS 
194. NUMBERING PAGES WITH ROMAN NUMERALS 71
195. NUMBERING TABLE CELLS 72
196. OPENING A COPY OF A DOCUMENT FROM THE DESKTOP 72
197. OPENING A DOCUMENT AS A COPY 72
198. OPENING A DOCUMENT AS READ-ONLY 73
199. OPENING A NEW DOCUMENT USING THE WINDOWS TASKBAR 73
200. PASTING AS A HYPERLINK 73
201. PASTING UNFORMATTED TEXT 73
202. PLACING A BORDER AROUND A PICTURE 74
203. PLACING PAGE NUMBERS IN THE LEFT OR RIGHT MARGINS 74
204. PRESERVING FORMATTING WHEN COPYING TEXT 74
205. PREVIEWING A WEB PAGE IN INTERNET EXPLORER 75
206. PRINTING A SELECTION FROM A DOCUMENT 75
207. PRINTING A SEPARATOR PAGE FOR YOUR PRINT JOBS 
208. PRINTING AN OUTLINE 75
209. PRINTING AUTOTEXT ENTRIES 76
210. PRINTING KEY ASSIGNMENTS 76
211. PRINTING PAGES IN REVERSE ORDER 76
212. PRINTING THUMBNAIL COPIES OF DOCUMENT PAGES 
213. PRUNING YOUR AUTOTEXT ENTRIES 77
214. PUTTING TOOLBARS WHERE YOU WANT THEM 77
215. QUICKLY DELETING A WORD 78
216. QUICKLY INSERTING A FOOTNOTE 78
217. RAISING AND LOWERING LETTERS 78
218. READING FOOTNOTES WITHOUT SCROLLING 78
219. REFINING SEARCH CRITERIA TO SPEED SEARCHES 78
220. REMOVING A COMMAND FROM A MENU 79
221. REMOVING BORDERS FROM TEXT BOXES 79
222. REMOVING DOUBLE SPACES BETWEEN SENTENCES 79
223. REMOVING HIGHLIGHTED TEXT PRIOR TO PRINTING A DOCUMENT 80
224. REMOVING THE FOOTNOTE CONTINUATION LINE 80
225. REMOVING THE PAGE NUMBER FROM THE FIRST PAGE OF A DOCUMENT 80
226. REPAIRING WORD 2000 INSTALLATION ERRORS 81
227. REPEATING A TABLE HEADER 81
228. REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE HYPHENS WITH EM DASHES 81
229. REPLACING TEXT WITH THE CLIPBOARD 82
230. REPLACING TEXT WITH THE CONTENTS OF THE CLIPBOARD 82
231. RESIZING AN DRAWING OBJECT 82
232. RESTARTING SPELL-CHECK AFTER EDITING A DICTIONARY 83
233. RESTORING A COMMAND TO A MENU 83
234. RESTORING A TOOLBAR TO ITS ORIGINAL SETTINGS 83
235. ROTATING CLIP ART 83
236. SAVING WORD DOCUMENTS IN OTHER FORMATS 84
237. SAVING WORD SEARCHES 84
238. SCROLL BAR SETTINGS FOR WEB PAGES WITH FRAMES 
239. SEARCHING FOR CLIP ART WITH A KEYWORD 85
240. SEARCHING FOR DOCUMENTS BY SUMMARY INFORMATION 85
241. SEARCHING ONLINE FOR CLIP ART 86
242. SELECTING A BACKGROUND FOR YOUR WEB PAGE 86
243. SELECTING A LABEL MANUFACTURER 86
244. SELECTING A LINE OF TEXT WITHOUT THE MOUSE 87
245. SELECTING MIRROR MARGINS FOR DOCUMENTS THAT ARE TO BE BOUND 87
246. SELECTING TEXT IN TRICKY SITUATIONS 87
247. SENDING A DOCUMENT AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT 
248. SENDING A DOCUMENT TO POWERPOINT 88
249. SETTING A DEFAULT FOR NEW TABLES 88
250. SETTING FONT SUBSTITUTION 88
251. SETTING LINE SPACING IN A TABLE 89
252. SETTING THE TYPE OF ENGLISH 89
253. SETTING WORD TO ACCEPT DOUBLE SPACING BETWEEN SENTENCES 90
254. SHORTCUTS FOR SELECTING ROWS AND COLUMNS 90
255. SHOWING CURRENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES 
256. SHOWING RECENTLY USED MENU COMMANDS FIRST 
257. SHRINKING DOCUMENTS TO FIT A PAGE 91
258. SNAPPING OBJECTS TO A GRID--PART 1 AND 2 91
259. SPLITTING A DOCUMENT WINDOW 92
260. TELLING THE SPELL-CHECKER TO IGNORE TEXT 92
261. TOUCH OF GRAY 92
262. TURNING A SUBMENU INTO A FLOATING TOOLBAR 93
263. TURNING FOOTNOTES INTO ENDNOTES 93
264. TURNING OFF AUTOMATIC HYPERLINK GENERATION 
265. TURNING OFF AUTOMATIC NUMBERING 94
266. TURNING OFF AUTOMATIC STYLE DEFINITION 94
267. TURNING OFF FIELD SHADING 94
268. TURNING OFF THE DRAG-AND-DROP TEXT EDITING 95
269. UNDOING AUTOCORRECT ENTRIES 95
270. UNDOING RECENT KEYSTROKES 95
271. UNDOING SMART CUT AND PASTE 96
272. UNDOING SPELLING CHANGES 96
273. USING AUTOFIT TO WINDOW TO LAY OUT TABLES FOR WEB PAGES 
274. USING CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP TO VIEW FORMATTING 
275. USING FIRST-LINE INDENTS 97
276. USING SECTION BREAKS TO CHANGE PAGE ORIENTATION
277. USING THE ADDRESS BOOK IN THE LETTER WIZARD 98
278. USING THE DECIMAL TAB SETTING 98
279. USING THE DELETE ALL COMMAND 98
280. USING THE DOCUMENT MAP TO NAVIGATE THROUGH A LARGE DOCUMENT 99
281. USING THE FORMAT PAINTER TO COPY FORMATTING 
282. USING THE KEYBOARD WHEN SIZING OBJECTS 99
283. USING THE LETTER WIZARD FOR FORMATTING 100
284. USING THE NUDGE COMMAND TO MOVE AN OBJECT 
285. USING THE ORGANIZER TO CHANGE FORMATTING 100
286. USING THE SAVE OPTIONS WHEN SAVING 101
287. USING THE SPIKE 101
288. USING WILDCARDS TO CHECK MISSPELLED WORDS 
289. USING WORD AS YOUR EMAIL EDITOR 102
290. VIEWING CONTACT DATA IN A WORD DOCUMENT 102
291. VIEWING FAVORITES WHILE WORKING IN WORD 102
292. VIEWING SEVERAL PAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY 103
293. VIEWING SHORTCUTS ON THE TOOLBARS 103
294. VIEWING SPECIFIC FORMATTING MARKS 103
295. VIEWING SPECIFIC FORMATTING MARKS 103
296. VIEWING TOTAL EDITING TIME 104
297. VIEWING YOUR DOCUMENT IN FULL SCREEN MODE 
298. WRAPPING TEXT AROUND A TABLE 104
299. WRAPPING TEXT AROUND OBJECTS 105
300. Word 2000 SR-1 Mail Command Security Update 105
301. Word 2000 users, ACT! now 105
302. WORD TROUBLESHOOTING TRICKS: 106
303. Bulleted Lists 106
304. Drawing Tools 107
305. Font Properties 107
306. Formatting 108

307. Graphics 108
308. Keyboard Shortcuts 109
309. Moving Text and Graphics 110
310. Navigating Documents 111
311. Opening Documents 112
312. Printing 112
313. Saving and Closing Documents 112
314. Sharing Documents 112
315. Tables 113
316. Templates 113
317. Typing 114
318. What's This? 114
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