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Microsoft Word 2010 – Prevent Paste Options Button from Appearing

20 May

When pasting text into a Word 2010 document, hide the Paste Options button that tends to appear.

For the most part, when you paste text into a Microsoft Word 2010 document (unless the text has no formatting information), you will see a Paste Options button appear, labeled with “(Ctrl)”. Press the Ctrl key or click this button to access formatting options such as keeping the source formatting, merging the formatting, pasting only the text, and setting the default paste options.

If you do not frequently have to make formatting changes to pasted text, you might find this button annoying and wish it disabled. To do so:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

01 Mar

Turning off Word 2010’s vertical scroll bar may make it easier to view/edit documents without having to scroll horizontally.

If you have a smaller monitor or zoom past 100% to view and edit your Microsoft Word 2010 documents, you may be forced to scroll horizontally as the entire page width cannot be viewed onscreen.

If you need just a few more pixels to keep from having to scroll through your documents horizontally, how about removing the vertical scroll bar? If you don’t need it to navigate through your documents via the mouse (remember Page Up and Page Down work as well as your cursor keys), hide it by doing the following:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Finished With Your 2,000 Word Book Report? And Other Counting Features

31 Jan

Quickly display the number of pages, words, characters, paragraphs, and lines in your Word 2010 document.

For various reasons you might need to know how many words or paragraphs are in your current Microsoft Word 2010 document (school report or essay being a couple).

While the word and page counts may appear in the status bar, here are two ways to get the more detailed information:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Make Paragraphs Stand Out with Drop Caps

30 Oct

Drop Caps can make the first paragraph of a chapter or document section stand out, and they are easy to make and customize.

Many books and other documents incorporate the use of an initial at the start of a chapter or section; this is a stylized first letter that stands out from the rest of the text.

With Microsoft Word 2010 you can easily add an initial to the left of a paragraph, as well as a drop cap, an initial in-line with the text (see the screenshot to the right for an example). …

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Dashes, Fractions, and Ordinals! Oh My! Stop the Replacing.

30 Oct

Prevent Word 2010 from replacing dashes, fractions, and ordinals with characters that might not be desired or even viewable in all situations.

Microsoft Word 2010 has a habit of trying to make documents look better, features that many people normally appreciate.

For example, Word 2010 automatically changes dashes, fractions, and ordinals to characters that may appear nicer onscreen and on harcopy. However, sometimes you may wish to disable this behavior. For example, if you write text in Word 2010 and transfer it to an HTML webpage, these converted characters may look fine to you – but not to those running other operating systems who happen to visit your page. Thus, the following tweaks show how to turn these conversions off:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop Selecting Entire Words!

16 Oct

When selecting text in a Word 2010 document, prevent the application from forcing you to select entire words.

If you use the mouse to select text in a Microsoft Word 2010 document, you may notice that after you select one word, preceding or following words are selected automatically as you move the mouse – you cannot select individual letter of the words.

If you tire of this behavior and want more fine-tuning in your text selection without having to use the keyboard to select text, do the following:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop the Not So Smart Quotes

09 Oct

Prevent Word 2010 from converting your quotes into those that don’t always paste well into other applications and documents.

Microsoft Word 2010 has a tendency to perform a great deal of correcting as you type, useful if you keep typing in teh instead of the (unless you really want to type in teh Internets, which in this case Word can be annoying). Among this happily-correcting behavior is the changing of quotation marks to “smart quotes”, ones where the quotes slant at an angle.

Unfortunately, if you copy and paste documents containing “smart quotes” into other applications, such as web page editors, these quotes may not appear as desired. Worse, you might paste them into an HTML document, notice that the quotes look fine on screen, but users with other browsers / operating systems may see strange characters instead of the quotes. Definitely not so smart… So, how can you disable them?…

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