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Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By : Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman
Book Image

Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By: Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman

Overview of this book

If you’re proud of yourself for finally learning how to use keyboard shortcuts and the search function, but still skip a beat when asked to generate a table of contents, then this book is for you. Written by two experts who’ve been teaching the world about Word for decades, Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks is a powerhouse of demystifying advice that will take you from Word user to Word master. This book takes you on a step-by-step journey through Word essentials with plenty of practical examples. With it, you'll explore different versions of Microsoft Word, its full functionality, and understand how these versions impact collaboration with others. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of working with the legendary text editor, including a whole chapter dedicated to concentrating better with the help of Word. Expert advice will fill your knowledge gaps and teach you how to work more productively and efficiently with text, images, styles, and even macros. By the end of this book, you will be able to make better documents faster and troubleshoot any Word-related problem that comes your way. And because of its clear and cohesive structure, you can easily come back to refresh your knowledge whenever you need it.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word
6
Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
14
Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Removing different types of spacing

If you open a document and find that there is an unnecessary or unintended amount of space somewhere, there are a variety of reasons as to why this can occur. It could be caused by people typing or formatting the document in an unexpected way, copying a style over from an old document, or simply by typing in, clicking on, or accepting a change they didn't intend to. Whatever the reason, there is now space in the document, and we are not sure how it got there. The reason doesn't matter as much as the type of space you are seeing and where you are seeing it inside the document. In Word, you can view extra spacing between the following:

  • Letters or characters
  • Words
  • Lines or sentences
  • Paragraphs
  • Pages

Depending on where you see the extra space will determine how you can troubleshoot, fix, and remove that extra space in your document. To begin, let's start by examining how Word handles spacing between characters...