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Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By : Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman
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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)
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Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word
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Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
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Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Chapter 12: Formatting Problems – Too Much Space

It will happen; you are collaborating on a group project, maybe at work or at school, and you open the Word document that your group has been collaborating on, and it looks, well, strange. The words are fine, but there is all of this extra space, perhaps between the letters or paragraphs, or there are margins appearing that weren't there before. You don't want to play the blame game. That would be a waste of time. All you know is that this is extra space that you didn't put there, you don't know how it got there, and you aren't sure how to remove it. This document has to go out soon, so it has to be fixed quickly. However, it contains blank spaces and is invisible. So, how do you remove it if you can't actually see it?

That is what this chapter is all about; situations that occasionally arise where someone has sent you a document with all of this random extra space in it, and you have to figure...