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Square The Square option wraps the text squarely around the picture.
Tight With the Tight Option, Word 2007 figures out where the actual edges of the image are and snuggles the text up as closely as possible. When you choose Tight wrapping (or any other type of wrapping besides In Line with Text), the image becomes a free-floating object and is no longer tied to a specific position within the text. You can drag the picture anywhere you want. You can even put it right in the middle of a paragraph, and Word wraps the text around both sides. Behind Text Behind Text enables the text to spill right over the top of the picture, as if the image werent even there. The picture appears behind the text.
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Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks In Front of Text The In Front of Text option places the image on top of the text. The picture might obscure some of the text.
Wrap Top and Bottom As its name suggests, the Wrap Top and Bottom option places text above and below the image, but doesnt allow any text to appear beside the picture.
Through The Through option is kind of like the Tight option, but it results in an even tighter fit. If Word finds any blank spaces within the picture, it fills the space with text.
Edit Wrap Points This option lets you design your own wrapping shape around your picture by dragging little handles on a wrapping outline.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Keystroke Shift + F3 Function Toggles through capitalization options. Applies the Normal style. Notes This one isnt perfect for instance, it insists on capitalizing articles and prepositions in Title Case mode but its still a big timesaver. If you work with documents that are contain obscure and specialized styles, its handy to turn them into Normal paragraphs on the fly. Once youve copied the format, you can press Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the formatting onto a new selection. This shortcut remembers what you copied until you close Word.
Ctrl + Shift + N
Ctrl + Shift + C
F4
Repeats your most recent action. This might be the all-time best shortcut (except for Undo). The F4 shortcut will repeat nearly all the actions you take on document text: typing: formatting, and deleting. Opens the Find And Replace dialog box with the Replace tab selected. Replace functionality is my constant companion, so this one is essential for me. Ctrl + F opens to the Find tab if you just want to locate something in a document (or make sure something isnt in there). This is handy when you need to copy an object and control where that copy ends up. For example, a picture or other object that has certain positioning attributes may land in some unpredictable location if you use the standard copy and paste functions. This shortcut lets you drag it exactly where you want it.Just make sure you drop the text or object before you release the Ctrl key or Word will move the original instead of copying it. BONUS: If you hold down Shift along with Ctrl as you drag, Word will keep the copy aligned with the original.
Ctrl + H
Another keyboard/mouse hybrid, this one is obscure but useful. Some users have trouble making it work, but the problem is usually sequence.
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2. Open a blank document in Word. 3. Go to View | Header and Footer. (In Word 2007, double-click in the Header pane of your document.) 4. Go to Insert | Picture and then click From File. (In Word 2007, position the insertion point in the Header pane, click the Insert tab, and then click Picture in the Illustrations group.) 5. Navigate to the file containing your form and click the Insert button. 6. Crop, resize, and reposition the picture as necessary to fit the page. 7. Right-click the picture, go to Format Picture, and click the Behind Text option. (In Word 2007, make sure the form is still selected. Then, under Picture Tools in the Format tab, click Text Wrapping in the Arrange group and choose Behind Text.) 8. Double-click anywhere in the document outside of the Header pane. You can then enter the desired text.
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Once you do, you can apply a font format as you normally would. (Word will extend the format to new items.) As you can see in the following figure, the color and font for just the numbers has been changed.
The previous technique formats all of the numbers or bullets in a list. However, you might want to format one or even several, but not all of them. The trick to this formatting task is to format each items end-of-paragraph marker. Word will apply any formatting that you apply to the end-of-paragraph marker to that items number or bullet, but not to the text. First, you should display the markers by clicking the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar. Once you can see the markers, theyre easy to select. Just select the marker at the end of the item you want to format. Or select multiple markers by holding down the [Ctrl] key as you select each marker. After selecting the marker(s), apply font formats as you normally would.
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Its worth nothing that formats applied to the entire list take precedence over formats applied via the end-of-paragraph marker.
Make a PDF
Office 2007 users can create a PDF file with the free Save As PDF add-in. Theres no need to change your original document at least not at first. After youve seen the booklet output you might decide to tinker with the source file just to clear up any anomalies.
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Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks Auto-rotate allows the software to choose the best orientation for each page. This is handy if you have a mix of portrait and landscape pages (eg a wide table in the middle of a document). Binding Left binding is the usual choice for left-to-right languages. Right binding for right-to-lefties and vertical reading languages like Japanese. The tall options print on portrait oriented pages with white space above and below. The preview pane is very good and changes according to your choices use the slider to preview the pages and see roughly how the booklet will look. Use the preview to see Auto-rotate and Binding in action.
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Live Preview
A nice idea, as you hover over formatting options the actual document changes to show how it'll look. The problem is that the pull-down list itself often covers the preview and defeats the purpose. You can turn it off from the main menu (the big Office icon on top left), Word options, Popular, Enable Live Preview.
Use Print Layout view (found on the View tab) for this step so that you can see the ghostly image of the header (or footer).
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From the Header & Footer group choose HeaderRemove Header (or FooterRemove Footer).
The header (or footer) is gone. This trick removes only the header (or footer) for the current section. To remove headers (or footers) in other sections, repeat these steps.
Create a table
1. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table.
Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks 3. In the Number of rows box, enter the number of rows that you want. You need one row for each item in your list. Don't worry about the size of the columns or the border lines in the table. You will fix those later.
NOTE If the check box has a gray background, click Legacy Tools in the Controls group, and then click Form Field Shading to remove the gray shading.
4. Click the next cell where you want to insert a check box, and then press CTRL+Y to insert another check box. 5. After you insert a check box for each item that you want, click the top right cell and type the text for the first item. Repeat this step for each item in the list.
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Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks Make sure that you are not in design mode by clicking Design Mode in the Controls group on the Developer tab. On the Developer tab, in the Protect group, click Protect Document, and then click Restrict Formatting and Editing. In the Protect Document task pane, under Editing restrictions, select the Allow only this type of editing in the document check box. In the list of editing restrictions, select Filling in forms. Under Start enforcement, click Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. To assign a password to the document so that only reviewers who know the password can remove the protection, type a password in the Enter new password (optional) box, and then confirm the password.
Word won't automatically add the accent to just any letter. For example, if you press [Ctrl] + ['] and type z or Z, Word will ignore the first keystroke because Z isn't a letter that ordinarily gets accented. Below is a list of additional accents you can create: Grave Press Ctrl - ` release and press A, E, I, O, or U Acute Press Ctrl - ' release and press A, E, I, O, or U Umlaut Press Ctrl-Shift- : release and press A, E, I, O, U, or Y
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Tilde Press Ctrl-Shift- ~ release and press A, N, O Cedilla Press Ctrl-comma release and press C Inverted question mark Press Ctrl-Shift-Alt-?
Inverted exclamation mark Press /Ctrl-Shift-Alt-! Cent Press Ctrl - / and press c
Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks Because PowerPoint 2007 presentations often contain slides with bulleted lists, you can quickly convert slide text to a SmartArt graphic. In addition, you can add animation to your SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2007 presentations. When you create a SmartArt graphic, you are prompted to choose a type, such as Process, Hierarchy, Cycle, or Relationship. Each type contains several different layouts. After you choose a layout, it is easy to change the layout for your SmartArt graphic. Most of your text and other content, colors, styles, effects, and text formatting are automatically carried over to the new layout. When you select a layout, placeholder text (such as [Text]) is displayed, so that you can see how your SmartArt graphic looks. Placeholder text is not printed. However, the shapes are always displayed and printed, unless you delete them. You can replace the placeholder text with your own content. As you add and edit your content in the Text pane, your SmartArt graphic is automatically updated shapes are added or removed as needed. You can also add and remove shapes in your SmartArt graphic to adjust the structure of the layout. For example, even though the Basic Process layout appears with three shapes, your process may need only two shapes, or it may need five shapes. As you add or remove shapes and edit your text, the arrangement of the shapes and the amount of text within those shapes is updated automatically maintaining the original design and border of the layout for your SmartArt graphic.
Purpose of graphic
Show non-sequential information Show steps in a process or timeline Show a continual process Show a decision tree Create an organization chart Illustrate connections Show how parts relate to a whole Show proportional relationships with the largest component on the top or bottom Page 13
Graphic type
List Process Cycle Hierarchy Hierarchy Relationship Matrix Pyramid
Word 2007 Shortcuts, Tips And Tricks Also, consider the amount of text that you have, because the amount of text often determines the layout that you use and how many shapes you need in the layout. In general, SmartArt graphics are most effective when the number of shapes and the amount of text are limited to key points. Larger amounts of text can distract from the visual appeal of your SmartArt graphic and make it harder to convey your message visually. However, some layouts, such as Trapezoid List in the List type, work well with larger amounts of text.
2. In the Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box, click the type and layout that you want. 3. Enter your text by doing one of the following:
Click [Text] in the Text pane, and then type your text. Copy text from another location or program, click [Text] in the Text pane, and then paste your
To add text in an arbitrary position close to or on top of your SmartArt graphic, on the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box to insert a text box. If you want only the text in your text box to appear, right-click your text box, click Format Shape or Format Text Box, and then set the text box to have no background color and no border. Click in a box in the SmartArt graphic, and then type your text. For best results, use this option after you add all of the boxes that you want.
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