There may be times when you need to start a new page in an existing Word document. Many people just keep hitting the Enter key until the cursor scrolls down to the new page. Word lets you insert a Page Break in a document. This ends the current page but starts a new, consecutive page.…

Make sure the Home tab of the ribbon is displayed. Locate the Bullets tool within the Paragraph group. Click the down-arrow at the right of the Bullets tool. Word displays a palette of options. Select a bullet style from those shown in the Bullet Library portion of the palette. If you don’t like any of…

There are a number of special symbols that are often used in the course of creating a document. One common symbol is the copyright mark, which is a small letter C surrounded by a circle. Copyright marks are easy to add to your document, assuming you are using a version of Word that has AutoCorrect and that it…

Word includes a feature that formats what you type, as you type it. You probably take many of these automatic formatting (AutoFormat) adjustments for granted. Word does things like changing your quotes to Smart Quotes, automatically creating bulleted and numbered lists, and changing the indentation of paragraphs. This is fine and good for many people,…

You can automatically update both fields and links when you print a document, but Word treats the two items differently when you are opening a file. Word provides a way to always update your links when opening a document. You can do this by following these steps: Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word…

It is not unusual to put a page number in your headers or footers, and the different ways of accomplishing that task are covered in other issues of WordTips. You can also, however, insert a field that indicates the total number of pages in a document. This can be used in a header or footer or directly…

If you have previously inserted footnotes or endnotes into your document and you want to later delete one of them, follow these steps: Highlight the footnote or endnote reference mark in your document. (In the document itself, not in the footnote or endnote area.) Press either Del or Ctrl+X. The footnote or endnote is deleted, and if you…

The automatic numbering tool used in Word is one of the most poorly implemented and frustrating tools in the entire program. The problems are so bad that many people even advocate the complete abandonment of the feature, relying instead on manually numbering items in lists. (Believe it or not, that is exactly what is done…

Word allows you to format your documents on three general levels: sections, paragraphs, and characters. Of the three, section formatting is often the most confusing formatting for people to understand. Other issues of WordTips detail how you can insert section breaks and apply section formatting. If you have worked with sections before, you already know that if…

Here’s How to use Headings  1.      In your Word document, select the heading or subheading of a section of the document. 2.      In the upper left corner, you should see a style-selection box; it will likely just display the word Normal (see inset). 3.      Click the down-arrow to open the styles menu, click on Heading 1 (you…