Essential Microsoft Word Formatting Tips and Shortcuts
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Tabs: Format / Tabs
Automatically hyphenate text: Tools / Language / scripts / check the box for automatic text Division
Borders and Shading: Format / Borders and Shading
Bleeding: Increase Indent
Index and Tables: Insert / Reference / Index and Tables / Table of contents / formats: FORMAL
Margins: File / Page Setup / ex: top: 3.5, bottom: 2.5, Left: 2.5, Right: 2.5; Bookbinding: 0; Orientation: Vertical
To begin on the second page: Insert / Page Numbers / format / activity initiated in and writes 2
To insert a new page: control intro
Header and footer: See / Encabzado and footer
To begin on page 15: Insert / Page Numbers / Format / start at: Type 15
Word count: Tools / count words
To change font: size / source / preset
Columns: Format / Columns
To make templates:
- Margins: File / Page Setup
- Tools / Language / scripts / activate automatic division of the text
- Styles and Formatting: to put shading: Format / border / shading and choose a color
- To make sangria: Format / paragraph / sangria L: 1 (example)
- To make a new style, a style that degine call text: font .... Size ... Justify active bleeding and left push 1 cm (sample)
- To makehanging indent: Format / paragraph / Sangria / / special / French and it is aligned to the text in the left margin after the cartoons: Espaciado/posterior/0 pto
Tables: for art: Tables / Table AutoFormat
- Table cells for Combi: View / Toolbars / Tables and Borders / agreed and transformed cells in a single cell.
- Dividing cells: we click on a cell, And choose Split Cells dialog box that appears write the number of rows and columns k wish
Jump to page: Insert / jump .. / jump page
Index or glossary: Insert / Reference / Index and Tables / Mark Index Entry and press dial and you will show all the hidden characters .. Mark keywords and in the text box Input / mark .. Continues to mark all the important words and jump to page .. Aora choose Insert / Reference / Index and Tables and choose the Index tab format .. K mas te guste then you will index the words (vocabulary)
To insert afootnote on page or at end of document: Reference / Footnote ..
For will insert the title of an equation, an illustration or table: Reference / Title
Paragraph: It has two tabs
- Sangria and space where we can choose alignment, sangria and spacing
- Line and page breaks
Tabulations: Tabulations default. If we only introduce them some special tabs in Position / Alignment and padding (Format menu)
To change the language: Tools / Set Language / Translate fuiones or synonyms or, to put it in Arabic: Symbol 11
Insert multimedia objects: inset / clip art
MATH IN WORD:
add icons: Get on the toolbars off the toolbar source .. Give the right click / customize / commands / format / superscript and subscript drag .. And from the Insert symbol and drag equation editor