Tips on Using Microsoft Word2007


 

 

I've put together some tips and common problems on this page. I hope you find these help files useful..

 

alphabet

CAPITALS: I have a large document that's written entirely in capital letters. Is it possible to change it so that it's shown using lowercase letters an uppercase at the beginning of sentences?

 

Simply highlight the passage you want to change, or to select the whole document, hold down the Ctrl key and press A. Then hold down Shift and press F3. This will cycle through the various case options. The first convert all the text uppercase, so you may not see any difference. Still holding down the Shift, press F3 again, which will change everything to lowercase. Press F3 a third time (still holding down Shift) and this will convert the passage to what word calls sentence case, which is how we normally write sentences, with capitalised first letters.

portrait

PORTRAIT/LANDSCAPE MODES: How do I use portrait and landscape orientation in the same document?

  1. Select the pages or paragraphs that you want to change to portrait or landscape orientation.

     

  2. On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Margins.
  3. Click Custom Margins.
  4. On the Margins tab, click Portrait or Landscape.
  5. In the Apply to list, click Selected text.

 

symbols

SYMBOLS: How can I quickly insert a ticker symbol into a Word document?

Basically you need to sign what is called a keyboard shortcut.

Click on the insert menu and then on symbol: in this case the tick can be found in the Wingdings font.

Find your symbol and left click once and then select the shortcut key button.

Left click in the text box labelled "press new shortcut key" and press the keyboard shortcut you would like to use.

Make sure the save changes in option is set to normal.dot otherwise the changes will not appear in new documents, only the current one.

Click on "save" and then click on close.

Click on cancel to close the insert symbol window.

rows

TABLES AND ROWS: How do I insert multiple rows into a table in Word 2007?

 

A shortcut for doing all of this: first highlight multiple rows then press Alt + A + I + A repeat this again until you have the right number of row you want

 

You can assign a new shortcut key for inserting multiple rows in a table.

a. Click on the Tools menu, click Customize.

b. Click Keyboard.

c. Under Categories, locate table.

d. Under Commands, select TableInsertrow.

e. Place the cursor under the box, Press New shortcut key.

f. Type the shortcut key suitable for you. Just like u can use Ctrl + Shift + I.

g. Click on the Assign button on the right side.

h. Click Close.