Category Archives: MS-Office

Find and Replace Formatting in MS-Word

If you use MS-Word a lot, sometimes you must have wished if you could find a particular type of formatting in a long document and replace it with some other … Read more

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How to Write a Macro in MS Word

In order to write a Visual Basic program to run in MS-Office packages (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc) you need an editor. Microsoft has provided you with one. To … Read more

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Multiple Find and Replace in MS-Word

Nowadays, I am working with a lot of Unicode text in MS-Word. All the pieces of the text invariably need editing. There are some commonly occurring mistakes which I have … Read more

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MS Word: Different Page Numbers for TOC or Preface

Microsoft Word has a facility using which you can very easily insert a Table of Content (TOC) in your document. Such a table holds names of chapters/sections/sub-sections/parts etc. present in … Read more

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MS Word: Change Formatting of All Instances of a Word

While working on an MS Word document, at times, we find ourselves in a need of finding all the instances a word in the entire document AND then change the … Read more

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MS Word: Change Smart Curly Quotes to Simple Ones

Microsoft Word by default converts your simple quotes into nice looking curly quotes (aka smart quotes). But sometimes we want our plain old straight quotes back. Curly quotes look nice … Read more

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How to Replace Line Break in MS Word

Today, while doing a bit of data processing, I required to delete all the line breaks (carriage return) in an MS-Word document and replace them with a comma. I was … Read more

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PowerPoint: See Speaker Notes in Presenter View

Making a good presentation is an art. Practice makes a man perfect. These two are important points to remember if you intend to become a successful presenter. Even the best … Read more

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How to Make Table of Content in Microsoft Word

When you are writing large amount of structured text (e.g. a book or booklet) it becomes imperative to include a table of content at the beginning of your document. Such … Read more

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MS-Word: Portrait and Landscape Pages in the Same Document

More often than not we find ourselves in a situation when we wish to have a few pages in an MS-Word document in landscape format. Big tables, graphs and images … Read more

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Microsoft Word Shortcut Key Combinations

Be the keyboard warrior while working on MS Word documents! Learn the shortcut keys and see yourself working much faster. Shortcut Keys Description CTRL + 0 (zero) Adds or removes … Read more

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Time Saving Tips for MS Word

Following are some of the cool tricks that you can use in MS-Word. Using these methods will make your work fast and save you more time for coffee! To select … Read more

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How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces in MS-Word

More often than not I get MS-Word files in which a lot of lines either begin with unnecessary spaces or they have lots of trailing spaces –and if it is … Read more

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