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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

Changing default paste options

If you collaborate with others and have strict formatting guidelines you must follow, then the chances are you won't want to keep destination formatting too often. In fact, it will probably be very rare. Most of the time, you will more than likely want to merge formatting or use destination styles. For that, you will want to change what Word uses as its default paste options.

To change the default paste options, follow these steps:

  1. Go up to your File menu, click on Options, and click on the Advanced tab.
  2. Scroll down to the Cut, copy, and paste section:

    Figure 15.20 – Cut, Copy, and Paste section

  3. Update your paste options and click OK.

Figure 15.21 – Updated options

Not all paste options will be available. In the preceding screenshot, you will notice that I've changed my options to Merge Formatting for the Pasting within the same document, Pasting between documents, and Pasting from...