Author: Jody Gilbert

If your Word sessions often wind up with a lot of open documents, this obscure command can streamline the process of closing them and saving your changes.

This simple technique comes in handy when you’re working in multiple documents and want to make sure you’ve saved your changes to all of them.  

If you use Word 2007 … you can add the Save All command to your Quick Access Toolbar:

1. Click the Office button and click Word Options.
2. Click Customize in the left-hand column.
3. Select Commands Not In Ribbon from the Choose Commands From drop-down list.
4. Scroll down and select Save All (Figure A).
5. Click the Add button and then click OK.
6. [Source:  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=2307&tag=nl.e056]

Personally, I avoid doing any type of desktop publishing in Word – like the plague.  Great program for word processing, but for anything graphic – not a great program.  But… I realize that many small businesses and entrepreneurs don’t have access to other software, and so are creating a lot of their materials in Word.

Soooo… here are my tips on how to make the most of Word’s limited graphic abilities.

The first thing is to stop thinking of your document in terms of one long text document.  Split your piece up into its components (title, images, blocks of text, etc) and put each element into its own text box.  Then set the text box properties (under format text box) appropriately (border or no border, color, etc.).  Also, in the format, click on the advanced options and unclick the “move object with text” box.  This will allow you the flexibility to place your elements wherever you want them, and offer the ability to free yourself from the one long text piece, word processing style. 

You can also change the order of your boxes if you are overlapping them by right clicking on the text box and choosing order.

Using text boxes helps make Word work a little bit more like other desktop publishing software.  And while it’s not perfect, it does help.

Have you found other ways to better use Word to make more sophisticated documents?

The creative team at StockLayouts posted new Holiday & Christmas Greeting Cards.

StockLayouts template designs, for creating print marketing materials are available for purchase and download online and are fully customizable in a choice of file formats including QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word and Apple iWork Pages. Created with high-quality output in mind, the template designs are easy to edit, and suitable for printing in-house on a color printer or on an offset press. The do-it-yourself marketing templates help users promote their business and look more professional with high-impact designs!

Synopsis_Logo the idea girl says

Yes, I’ve reached another goal!

I copy and pasted my notes from ONE NOTE into WORD and created a 5 Page Synopsis from a 20 page/chapter Synopsis and then condensed all that into 1 page for the NaNoWriMo site. They only wish to have a short synopsis and this will be my FIRST one that I’ve ever written in my life.

Should be interesting to see what happens with it.
I didn’t give my characters any description at all in my Synopsis, even though I’ve seen that in others.

I just give the names, type of job and what they do in my story.

The first time I mention the name it’s put in CAPS AND BOLD I read somewhere that is what you’re supposed to do.

I’ve watched lots of videos and have been reading how to do a Synopsis books for the past year.

So I think I’ve got it.

I gave an Intro about my main character and some of the surrounding characters in the story.

What their relationship is to Rachel Tornquist (main character).

A short outline of what happens in the story, how it begins, the conflicts, the resolution then the ending.

I think that’s all I’m supposed to do for a Synopsis.

Then I’ll have to work on a Query letter.

Now that will be a challenge, how do you condense 25 lines of type into a 5 line paragraph that describes the heart of your book.

How do I promote my ability to be a writer with no formal education or degree?

I’ll have to present myself as a long time internet blogger, whose spent the past 20 years making websites as a hobby.

I’ve got hundreds of websites out there and don’t even remember half of the addresses for them.

I just started back in 2008, on a new project and started writing novels then blogging about it on wordpress and building hobby websites on Squidoo.

I’ve integrated my writing skills with my imagination and created a kind of tourist type website that evolves around a fictional story.

I figured I’d bring visitors to the areas mentioned, and have fun using my imagination of what I’d be like if I were a millionaire, travelling and sight seeing.

That’s how I’ve started two of my novels.

The Munroe Mansion – The Beginning, is a mystery, paranormal romance.

The Calamity Girl – The Promotion is a chic lit, romance with a hint of mystery in it. I’m building a website about the plots and settings for the book. I use this tool for future reference, a way to showcase my novel notes and give other writers ideas on how to keep their stories moving.

I plan to do a detective series in the future and more chic lit.

I’ve already started up to 20,000 words for about 15 books (The Munroe Series), and built websites about them on Squidoo. (a late night, when I can’t sleep hobby – making websites for fun.)

I’m even doing research now for book two of The Calamity Girl.

Not sure how many books will be about Rachel Tornquist, but with my imagination I’ve developed several key characters and I’ve got book ideas for every one of them.

For more funny how to videos visit EElumir on youtube.

The creative team at StockLayouts posted a new business template set for a Ski & Snowboard Instructor. The business set is comprised of a brochure, postcard, poster, stationery and flyer & ads.

StockLayouts template designs, for creating print marketing materials are available for purchase and download online and are fully customizable in a choice of file formats including QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word and Apple iWork Pages. Created with high-quality output in mind, the template designs are easy to edit, and suitable for printing in-house on a color printer or on an offset press. The do-it-yourself marketing templates help users promote their business and look more professional with high-impact designs!

I was trying to figure out when my interest in typography first reared its wicked head. My earliest recollection is of junior high school. I noticed something interesting in on of my literature textbooks, and I was perplexed. I noticed that when two lowercase F’s appeared next to each other in a word (as they do in “offer”) the first F appeared shorter than the second. The next day, I asked my teacher why the F’s were different. Exasperated, she looked at me like I was insane for even noticing something as innocuous as that and admitted that she had no idea with a huge sigh. Yes, I have always been a dork.

I know now that what I observed was a ligature.

Ligatures are typographic refinement that fuses two or more letters together to create a single glyph. There are many common ligatures: ff, fi, ffi, Th are among the most common.

Here are some common examples of two or more characters fusing to form a ligature. The typeface used is Adobe Garamond Pro.

Ligatures are used to avoid collisions that would otherwise occur between two letters. For example the terminal of the lowercase F (or hook at the top of the lowercase F) often collides with the dot of the lowercase I, but the use of the ligature omits the dot in the I and avoids the unsightly collision.

Such page layout applications as Adobe InDesign and Quark XPress will change character combinations to ligatures on the fly depending on your style settings.  Word processing applications like Adobe FrameMaker do not generally support ligatures. Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac supports ligatures, and Word 2010 for Windows will support ligatures.

While using ligatures can easily add that sophistication and professionalism your type so desperately needs, they are not always necessary or useful. For example some of the ligatures in the Futura typeface are bizarre looking and distracting.

You really should use ligatures only if characters in your body type are colliding. The characters in most sans serif typefaces, like Furtura, will never collide unless they are kerned too tightly (reduced letter spacing). By the same token, ligatures in serif typefaces with loose kerning (increased letter spacing)may appear tight when compared to the loose text around them. Heading text or display type, likewise, often look strange with ligatures.

Here’s the rule of thumb when it comes to ligatures: set all other formatting of your text before enabling ligatures. If you see characters colliding, enable your ligatures and watch those characters fuse.

1.

I just applied French grammar rules to a paper being written in English [N.B. it's been over 5 months since I've written anything en francais].

example: “What makes populations vulnerables to famine is…”

As you see above, I applied the ever-annoying and hard-to-grasp French (ok fine, romance language) rule of adjective agreement. Too bad English is too good for that shit.

2.

I didn’t notice said total loss of grammatical skillz until the fucking Microsoft Word paperclip pointed it out to me.

Let’s all say it together: eff (F) em (M) ell (L)

Ta aí um erro apontado pelo Microsoft Word que eu nunca tinha visto na vida.

Quer dizer então que eu só posso escrever frases com 60 palavras?

Bom saber… Tenho que avisar o Professor Pasquale.

um abraço,

Diogo Besson

SECOND GRADING

Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used word-processing programs.Word processor programs primarily allow users to create and edit text documents. Typical use may include writing an essay or report, creating a resume, or writing notes. In addition, work can be presented in the form of inserted tables, diagrams or pictures.

Our second grading lesson is about Microsoft Word. As I remembered our teacher said that MS Word is used to create a document. In that particular file or data, we may enter, edit data just like inputing some text. Then after we create a document, we can save the contest and stored in the computer or other storage device. After saving it, we can access it anytime and the documents can be transformed into a hard copy through printing it.

Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used word-processing programs.Word processor programs primarily allow users to create and edit text documents. Typical use may include writing an essay or report, creating a resume, or writing notes. In addition, work can be presented in the form of inserted tables, diagrams or picture.

Here are some of the basic application in MS Word.

How to select and copy information

• First open the document or file you wish to copy. Highlight the information (word, phrase or the whole article) by holding down the left button and drag the mouse until to the last letter of the word of the document.

• Then point the cursor to the highlighted document then, click the right button and select copy.
  
• Next is open the target word document then point the cursor to the place you wish to paste a certain
  copied document. Click the right button of the mouse
  and press paste.

Adding tables to a word document

• Go to the pull down tables menu.
• Select insert. Then choose the number of rows and columns you wish to insert in your word document.
• After it, you may now insert the data/information you wish to place in a particular cell.You can always add another row to the bottom of your table using the Tab key. The new row will have the same format as the previous row.

Adding word art

Word Art is a text-styling feature that is available in the Microsoft Office suite of products. It allows users to create stylized text with various “special effects” such as textures, outlines, and many other manipulations that are not available through the standard font formatting.

• To add word Art to a document select insert menu on the main toolbar and click word art. And this will show.
  

   

• Select the text style you want and click. Then type the word or words to be styled and Press OK.

Adding hyperlink to a document

Hyperlink (HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a way of connecting a certain word, phrase, and even a sentence to another documents, website address and graphics. It is use to link to another address.

Microsoft Word allows the user to add a hyperlink.

• Simply highlight the word you want to be linked.
  
• Point the cursor to the highlighted word.
  
• Click the right button then select hyperlink.
  
• Then browse the file if it was saved in your pc or just simply put the URL of the file.

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You know how to select text horizontally. Did you know you can also select text vertically? (For example, if you want to select just the numbers in a numbered list.) Just hold down the Alt key while selecting.

Masalah

Microsoft Word adah pengolah kata untuk menghasilkan dokumen untuk dishare atau diprint, dengan banyak keuntungan, bisa untuk mengindex, membuat tabel yang siap diprint. Tapi, untuk digunakan sebagai tool untuk web publishing, microsoft word kurang ideal dan menghasilkan HTML yang tidak pas. Pengolah kata yang lain juga demikian, seperti OpenOffice misalnya.

Ketika text di-paste, awalnya tampak baik-baik saja.

Tapi, lihat pada kode HTMLnya, anda akan melihat adanya banyak penambahan informasi tag.

Semakin banyak anda mengedit, hasilnya bisa menjadi lebih buruk.Begitu muncul sebuah problem anda akan berusaha untuk mengatasinya dengan segenap upaya.  Kode yang sama dengan yang di atas dapat ditulis dengan lebih bersih dengan menggunakan WordPress visual editor:

Menggunakan Word Cleanly

Jika anda menimbang bahwa anda tetap akan menggunakan Word maka anda sebaiknya menggunakan fitur Word cleanup untuk menghilangkan tag yang berlebihan dari text anda.  Dari visual editor klik pada tombol show kitchen sink:

Kemudian klik pada tombol  paste Word:

Akan tampak pada begini, di mana anda akan menyisipkan:

Bila sudah seperti yang diinginkan, anda dapat klik  insert dan ini akan membersihkan konten dan memasukkan pada postingan anda. Catat bahwa semua format akan dihilangkan sehingga semua style harus anda tambahkan kemudian.

Interviewer: Do you think that the word processor has had or is having any effect on the study of literature?

Bloom: There cannot be a human being who has fewer thoughts on the whole question of word processing than I do. I’ve never even seen a word processor. I am hopelessly archaic.

Interviewer: Perhaps you see an effect on students’ papers then?

Bloom: But for me the typewriter hasn’t even been invented yet, so how can I speak to this matter? I protest! A man who has never learned to type is not going to be able to add anything to this debate. As far as I’m concerned, computers have as much to do with literature as space travel, perhaps much less. I can only write with a ballpoint pen, with a Rolling Writer, they’re called, a black Rolling Writer on a lined yellow legal pad on a certain kind of clipboard. And then someone else types it.

Interviewer: And someone else edits?

Bloom: No one edits. I edit. I refuse to be edited.

This passages comes from The Paris Review Interviews Vol. II, which is much recommended, and should be considered in light of my recent post on The computer, operating system, or word processor a writer or novelist uses doesn’t matter much, although I still like Macs. If Bloom, Freud, and Shakespeare could get by without debating the operating system or word processor being used, so too should you (this isn’t the same as saying you shouldn’t use a word processor, but rather that you should spend the minimum amount of time worrying about it, and the maximum amount of time worrying about your writing).

The creative team at StockLayouts posted new templates for a Holiday Toy Drive.

StockLayouts template designs, for creating print marketing materials are available for purchase and download online and are fully customizable in a choice of file formats including QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word and Apple iWork Pages. Created with high-quality output in mind, the template designs are easy to edit, and suitable for printing in-house on a color printer or on an offset press. The do-it-yourself marketing templates help users promote their business and look more professional with high-impact designs!

* Một số tổ hợp phím tắt thường dùng:

- Alt + Ctrl + 1: Heading 1 (Đề mục 1)
- Alt + Ctrl + 2: Heading 2 (Đề mục 2)
- Alt + Ctrl + 3: Heading 3 (Đề mục 3)
Từ Heading 4 trở đi sẽ không dùng tiếp được phím tắt như trên. Tuy nhiên có thể dùng tổ hợp phím Ctrl + Shift + S để vào hộp Style trên thanh Formatting, sau đó cùng phím mũi tên lựa chọn loại Heading.
* Cách tạo Heading:

1. Dùng 1 trong 3 tổ hợp phím trên để tạo loại Heading tương ứng. Ví dụ: Dùng tổ hơp phím Alt + Ctrl + 1 áp dụng cho loại Heading 1. Nếu không dùng 3 loại Heading 1, 2, 3 thì có thể vào hộp Style và chọn loại Heading tùy thích:

2. Thay đổi lại định dạng font chữ của Heading

Trường hợp dùng Office 2000:

1, Sau khi đã chọn đề mục là Heading 1, bạn thay đổi định dạng font chữ bình thường.

2, Kích vào hộp Style trên thanh Formatting (hoặc dùng phím tắt Ctrl + Shift + S), lúc đó ô định vị sẽ hiển thị ở dòng Heading 1
3, Gõ phím Enter

4, Xuất hiện thông báo Modify Style

Update the style to reflect recent changes?: Bạn có muốn cập nhật sự thay đổi mới của Style (heading)?”
Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection: Sử dụng kiểu định dạng mặc định.
Automatically update the style from now on: Tự động cập nhật kiểu định dạng từ thời điểm này.

5. Chọn nút OK để hoàn thành thay đổi định dạng lại font chữ cho heading 1.

Việc thay đổi này chỉ áp dụng được cho file bạn đang sử dụng, sang file mới những heading sẽ trở lại chế độ mặc định của Office 2000.

Trường hợp dùng Office 2003:

1, Vào hộp Style\More…

Hoặc vào Format\Style and Formatting…

2, Trên màn hình sẽ xuất hiện panel Style and Formatting bên phải, chọn Heading1:

3, Trên ô Formatting of selected text, chọn Modify:

4, Xuất hiện hộp thoại Modify Style:

Name: Tên Heading
Formatting: Định dạng font chữ.
Add to template: Áp dụng định dạng mới này cho cả những file sau. Nếu không đánh dấu thì chỉ áp dụng cho file hiện tại.
Automatically update: Khi thay đổi thêm định dạng khác cho Heading sẽ tự động cập nhật mà không cần phải vào hộp thoại Modify Style để sửa đổi.
Nút Format: Một số định dạng cho Heading

Font…: Mở hộp thoại Font, thay đổi định dạng phông chữ

Paragraph…: Mở hộp thoai Paragraph, thay đổi định dạng đoạn văn bản.

Tabs…: Mở hộp thoại Tabs, đặt Heading có định dạng tabs.

Border…: Mở hộp thoại Boder, đặt Heading có định dạng đường viền.

Language…: Mở hộp thoại Language, thay đổi kiểm tra lỗi chính tả ngôn ngữ.

Frame:… Mở hộp thoại Frame, đặt Heading thành frame có thể di chuyển ở mọi vị trí file văn bản.

Numbering…: Mở hộp thoại Bulleted and Numbering. Đặt Heading có đánh số thứ tự, ký tự đầu dòng tự động.

Shortcut key…: Mở hộp thoại Customize Keyboard, sửa hoặc bổ sung phím tắt dùng cho loại Heading.

5, Sau mỗi thao tác chọn nút OK hoặc Close để hoàn thành việc định dạng Heading
* Cho hiển thị mục lục tự động theo các đề mục đã tạo

1. Lựa chọn vị trí đặt mục lục: (Thường đặt ở cuối file hoặc đầu file)

2. Vào Insert \ Reference \ Index and Tables…

Trường hợp dùng Office 2000: Vào Insert \ Index and Tables…

3. Xuất hiện hộp thoại Index and Tables, chọn thẻ Table of Contents

Print Preview: Kiểu mục lục sẽ hiển thị khi in
Web Preview: Kiểu mục lục sẽ hiển thị ở dạng trang web
Show page numbers: Hiển thị số trang.
Right align page numbers: Hiển thị số trang bên lề phải.
Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers: Có sử dụng liên kết từ mục lục tới trang đặt Heading.
Tab leader: Chọn loại đường tab từ cuối các Heading đến số trang.
Show levels: Số cấp độ Heading.
Nút Show Outlining Toolbar: Cho hiển thị thanh công cụ Outlining trên cửa sổ MS Word
Nút Options…: Mở hộp thoại Table of Contents Options: Tùy chọn thêm một số tính năng khác.

Nút Modify…: Mở hộp thoại Style, sửa đổi định dạng font chữ cho nội dung phần mục lục tự động.

Trường hợp trong file đã có mục lục tự động, và bạn đồng ý thay đổi định dạng font chữ bằng hộp thoại Style sẽ xuất hiện thông báo: “Bạn có muốn thay thế định dạng cho bảng nội dung mục lục không?”

Chọn nút Yes: Đồng ý. Ngoài font chữ của nội dung bảng mục lục thay đổi, MS Word còn tự động cập nhật lại số trang cho các đề mục.

4. Kích và nút OK để MS Word hiển thị mục lục.

Ở tại phần mục lục này, tự động có liên kết cho phép bạn click chuột (hoặc dùng kết hợp phím Ctrl + click chuột) để nhảy đến đúng mục và số trang cần đến.

How to create Mail Merge in Word–it’s very easy, just in few minutes!  Mail merge is one of the most powerful tools in Microsoft Word.  In a large company, one employee may be in-charge of mail merge, combining templates of letters with customer lists to generate thousands of letters.  Mail merge is very important to every company especially large companies and mailing list companies.

In a small company, the mail merge employee updates the customers’ or recipients’ list as new customers are added to the company.  After the update, the employee runs the mail merge and thousands of letters are generated immediately.   Mail merge might look very difficult, not anymore after this tutorial. 

The only work in mail merge is setting up the customers’ or recipients’ window, and after that, mail merge is a piece of cake.

Now, you can see why it is important that you know how to use this simple but powerful tool, who knows, you might run into a situation where you can say, “Oh that’s easy, let me show you how to run the mail merge.”  You might get a pat on the back. 

This is just an overview of how to create and run mail merge, the details are included in the tutorial link below.  It is our pleasure to present you how to create mail merge in a step by step format.  Please enjoy and pass it on: to your family, friends, and your office co-workers.  Who knows, one day, someone will remember you as the shinning light on how to how to create mail merge.

This excerpt was taken from the best seller, Using Word with High Speed 2007, or Using Word with High Speed 2003.

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My sketchbooks, Blackberry and computer are the writing spaces I frequently employ. Each has characteristics that are similar and different and I use each for different purposes and in different ways.
My sketchbooks give me the freedom of a blank page to be worked by hand. There is freedom in it to choose the symbols I want in order to express my ideas. I do not feel restrictions of format within a sketchbook. I may use it to write, draw, or combine the two and meld words into pictures. Having a blank page sparks creativity for I know a story has yet to be told and it is in my hand to create it. I use pencils, pens, markers, crayons, paint, erasers, and paper as the mediums to create my mental concepts With my sketchbook, I have the patience to let my mind wander and come up with symbols that I may not fully comprehend until their completion. I have the freedom to develop abstract images. Using a sketchbook can be like a comic in nature as I place pictures and words together. With a blank sketch page, I have a tendency to visualize pictures more than or as much as I do words. I realize they are all symbols, but the symbols represent themselves differently with my Blackberry and computer.
With my Blackberry I can communicate with friends, and use abbreviated text dialect. Through Blackberry messenger, I can quickly pass virtual notes between friends. I can send individual messages or have conference like conversation where multiple friends can talk to each other, using text or recoded voice notes. Also through messenger, data files may be sent. BBM presents messages in transcript like format. It is like reading a play in book form, where characters names precede their messages. In addition to BBM, my Blackberry provides me with a memopad. This pad mimics the sketchbook in that it is a small blank page. However, with the memopad freedom is restricted. Unlike the sketchbook, the notepad can only be imprinted with virtual text in a linear fashion. There is an area for a title and an area for body. Despite the freedom restriction the memopad is an excellent device to record reminders, inspirational thoughts and ideas that would fade. My memopad acts as my journals used to. It is a place where I can place my innermost ideas, and since my phone is almost always on me, it provides me with a reliable and consistent writing space to utilize on short notice. Memopad also gives me an easy system of organization. Titles are organized alphabetically and can be easily reached by simply typing in the beginning letters of the title. This automatic alphabetic organizer makes me constantly think of titles so I do not repeat heads and confuse works.
My computer on the other hand, is my main source of word processing. I have the ability to use a blank page to develop virtual text in print format using Microsoft Word. I can imprint pictures and text, similar to the way I could with the sketchbook. However, when using Microsoft Word, Words are the substance I am after. It provides me with the advantage of having a personal publishing system where I can revise and edit and format ideas easily with a variety of pre-made formatting structures. Although formats are pre-made, the ability to mix and match allows the ability to either create a unique or standardized piece. Microsoft Word gives me the ability to have a writing space that has structure. This allows me the ability to not focus so much on format and more on content. I focus more on what I am saying versus how it is presented. I focus on the symbolism of language. Lastly, it provides me with the ability to store my works in one area in a format of my choosing, I may organize works alphabetically or sort them into separate folders by content.
Both Microsoft Word and the memopad of Blackberry remediate the sketchbook or plain blank page. They take the freedom of the having a clear page to work on and add publishing elements. Both the computer and Blackberry use the QWERTY keyboard, which comes from the typewriter, which is family of the Gutenberg Printing Press. This allows text to be standardized and easily understood. They both also give me the ability to be my own publisher and produce works in mass. I can easily connect my computer or phone to a printer and begin the process; something that would take painstakingly long if done by hand using a sketchbook. They make the work of the pad easier while adding other elements such pre-made formats, akin to the printing press.

Muốn bỏ chế độ tự động đánh số thứ tự đầu dòng: