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* Word processing *

Get More Editing Space February 2001
Save Paper in Word 2000 February 2001
Quick Tab Options February 2001
Isn't That Special? Paste Without Formatting February 2001
Precision Text Selection January 2001
See All Files in Word's Open Dialog January 2001
How Symbolic Can Word Get? January 2001
Text-Delete Shortcuts January 2001
Delete Files while you're in a Document January 2001
Where's My Document? December 2000
Easy Em and En Spaces December 2000
Mark Text for an Index December 2000
Format Documents for Other Word Processors December 2000
Keep Words Together on a Line November 2000
Try Word 2000's Hidden Function-Key Toolbar November 2000
Use Your Mouse to Enter Text in Word November 2000
Browse Instantly in Long Documents November 2000
Add Pizzazz to Documents by Using Edge EƇects October 2000
Convert Footnotes to Endnotes and Vice Versa September 2000
Use Tables to Enliven Document Formats September 2000
Instant Heading Styles August 2000
Splitting Lines of Text August 2000
The Future Is Here:Self-Typing Text August 2000
Unformat All in Word July 2000
Protect docs from changes July 2000
Indent Both Sides July 2000
Speed Your Formatting by Painting It July 2000
Switch column formats mid-page June 2000
Insert dates post-haste June 2000
Delete unneeded Word backups June 2000
Build automatic return addresses in Word June 2000
Shut down Word's spelling checker for odd text May 2000
WordPerfect 8 & 9 May 2000
Word 97 and 2000 May 2000
Hold my spot May 2000
Protect e-mailed documents from changes May 2000
Create side-by-side bulleted lists April2000
Get their attention with voice attachments April2000
Print coloured text as black March2000
Fix Caps Lock errors March 2000
Get the hang of hanging indents March 2000
Simple Document? Try WordPad February 2000
Two-way Lookups February 2000
Find Files Even If You've Forgotten Their Names February 2000
Remove Line Numbers From Blank Lines January 2000
Control hyphenation January 2000
Correct errors in custom spelling dictionaries January 2000
Easy Supermacros Automate Frequent Tasks January 2000
Quick pasting in Word December 1999
Protect your Word styles December 1999
Create keyboard shortcuts December 1999
Document viewing keys November 1999
Move graphic objects smoothly in Word November 1999
Flag common typos November 1999
Hyperlink to jump anywhere in a document November 1999
One-click format checker October 1999
Crop and scale graphics October 1999
Perform in-line calculations October 1999
Easy two-key ways to extend selected text October 1999
Moving the Office toolbars September 1999
Quick document info September 1999
Change default fonts for headers and footers September 1999
The ins and outs of importing data September 1999
Eight steps to make Word's table data portable September 1999
Make Office do maths September 1999
Macros: the power and the gory September 1999
Control page border placement August 1999
What colour do you want today? August 1999
Coping with missing fonts August 1999
See files in multiple directories August 1999
Launch Word documents the easy way August 1999
Six easy steps for creating vertical text in Word August 1999
Make Word easier on the eyes July 1999
Fix cut-off page numbers July 1999
Start-up switches for Word 6, 7, and 97 July 1999
Add screen shots to Word July 1999
Control Word 2000 menus July 1999
Copy and paste multiple items in Word 2000 July 1999
Share text among multiple documents July 1999
Make reverse-order printing your default in Word June 1999
Dump Word's default table borders instantly June 1999
Create customised calendars June 1999
Toolbar buttons for document switching June 1999
Set up automatic captioning June 1999
Automate your Word document launch June 1999
Drag and copy text in Word May 1999
Start Word with the File Open dialogue box open May 1999
Save, print, and close with one command May 1999
Nudge graphics in Word May 1999
Fix errors in Word's custom dictionaries May 1999
Word's full screen view April 1999
Realign numbered lists April 1999
Stylish reformats April 1999
Customise Shortcut menus in Word April 1999
Replace symbols in WordPerfect 6.1 and later March 1999
Remove items from letter wizard lists March 1999
Simplify Word 97's interface March 1999
Pick your default template March 1999
Create instant graphics shortcuts in Word March 1999
Manage numbered lists in Word February 1999
Change margins in the middle of a Word document February 1999
Faster horizontal lines in WordPerfect 8 February 1999
Convert password-protected documents February 1999
Fix broken images in WordPerfect January 1999
Lay off Word 97's Assistant January 1999
Tab tricks in Word and WordPerfect January 1999
Use fractional font sizes January 1999
Work with (or without) automatic hyperlinks January 1999
Save envelope address styles in Word December 1998
Write in the margins December 1998
Indent a block of text December 1998
Create fancy monograms for logos in Word December 1998
Create monograms in WordPerfect November 1998
AutoText shortcuts in Word 97 November 1998
Control Word's recently used file list November 1998
Simplify international characters in Word 97 November 1998
It's got to be gold November 1998
Why Word loves the Tahoma font November 1998
A font farewell October 1998
Add designer colours to headlines October 1998
Create a sample font list in Word 97 October 1998
Align graphic elements automatically in Word 97 October 1998
Search for text in Word without the File dialogue box September 1998
Disable WordPerfect 8's startup logo display September 1998
Create quick lines in WordPerfect September 1998
Straddle the centuries in WordPerfect 8 September 1998
Simplify label making in Word 97 September 1998
Display and hide toolbars in WordPerfect September 1998
Copy Word text boxes September 1998
Move Word objects with the keyboard September 1998
Put favourite templates on your Windows 95 desktop September 1998
Remove extraneous text from Word documents September 1998
Turn off bullets and numbering in Word August 1998
Restructure tables in WordPerfect 8 August 1998
Easy margin changes in WordPerfect 8 August 1998
Get quick formatting info in Word August 1998
Create custom templates in any word processor August 1998
Read Word 97 documents in earlier versions of Word August 1998
Wrap it up in WordPerfect July 1998
Copy Word tables to Excel July 1998
Dress up Word 97's tables July 1998
Read documents easily with automatic scrolling July 1998
Recover a missing toolbar July 1998
Customise Word 97's toolbars July 1998
Tame WordPerfect's tab key June 1998
Create toolbar buttons for any Word command June 1998
Buttoning and unbuttoning in Word June 1998
Get help with dialogue boxes June 1998
Save time and space by toggling the Fast Save option June 1998
Emphasise text with arrows June 1998
Add boldface and italics from the keyboard June 1998
Automatically open the last edited document June 1998
Page 10 of 2? June 1998
Single to double to single space May 1998
Recover any corrupted file in Word May 1998
The incredible shrinking document May 1998
Create more attractive return address labels May 1998
Find Fast "debris" May 1998
Missing clip art May 1998
Send e-mail from Word May 1998
Add drop caps to your documents Apr 1998
Fine-tune text selection Apr 1998
Stretch and compress text in Word 97 Apr 1998
Change font sizes quickly Apr 1998
Create dummy text in Word 97 Apr 1998
Save or close all documents in Word Apr 1998
Open a remote Web page Apr 1998
Replacing WordPerfect 7 with WordPerfect 8 Apr 1998
Insert a bullet anywhere in text Apr 1998
Keep your old WordPerfect in shape Apr 1998
Find fast or find slow? Mar 1998
Adding symbols is about as easy as pi Mar 1998
More e-mail cleaning Feb 1998
Moving AutoCorrect entries between systems Feb 1998
Use AutoText to AutoSign Feb 1998
Tracking changes to documents in Word 97 Feb 1998
Make long documents easier to navigate Feb 1998
Stop automatic Web links Feb 1998
Corel perfects WordPerfect Suite 8 and Photo-Paint Jan 1998
Customise toolbar icons in WordPerfect Jan 1998
Wrap text around graphic images in Word 97 Jan 1998
Repeat a search in Word Jan 1998
Creating overlines in Word 97 Jan 1998
Mastering Word's AutoCorrect feature Nov 1997
Make Word 97 easier on your eyes Nov 1997
Reorder manually numbered items Nov 1997
Split the screen to work on two parts of a document Nov 1997
Clean up e-mail text in Word Nov 1997
Replace standard bullets with symbols in WordPerfect Nov 1997
Speed Office 97 by turning off file logging Nov 1997
Pasting text into Word dialogue boxes Oct 1997
Rotate text in Word Pro Oct 1997
Delete strike-through text in Word Oct 1997
Replace Word formatting Oct 1997
Slash WordPerfect file size Oct 1997
Quick tips for fast file access Oct 1997
Installing Word 6.0 under Windows 95 Sep 1997
Adding page borders in Word 97 Sep 1997
Collect and move with Word's Spike Sep 1997
Create custom SmartFill lists in Word Pro Sep 1997
Inserting dates Aug 1997
Enhance documents with WordPerfect 7's TextArt Aug 1997
Word Pro glossary bug Aug 1997
Keep Word files your style Aug 1997
Select large blocks of text at normal speed Aug 1997
Printing multiple pages on a single sheet Jul 1997
Start a new document and crash Jul 1997
Jazz up documents with transparent shapes Jul 1997
Format your documents with named styles Jul 1997
Word 97 can't speak Australian Jun 1997
Browsing all objects in Word 97 documents Jun 1997
Cleaning up Word's menus Jun 1997
Creating named ranges in WordPerfect tables Jun 1997
Quick numbered lists in Word Pro 96 Jun 1997
Better Web pages in WordPerfect 7 Jun 1997
More on disappearing fonts May 1997
The graphic's nice, but where's the address? May 1997
Create vertical letterheads in Word May 1997
Set different column layouts on the same page May 1997
Add a background border in WordPerfect 7 May 1997
Redefining styles May 1997
Templates built to last May 1997
Printing to the bitter end Apr 1997
Get centred Apr 1997
Automate repetitive typing Apr 1997
Quick access to specific parts of large documents Apr 1997
The case of the disappearing fonts Mar 1997
When I say delete I mean delete! Mar 1997
Print your own letterhead Mar 1997
Enhancing graphics in Word Pro Mar 1997
Nonprinting characters in Word Mar 1997
Drag-free text selection in all word processors Mar 1997
Storing new styles in WordPerfect 6.1 and 7 Mar 1997
Intruding dialogue box Feb 1997
Lost spellcheck files Feb 1997
Spruce up envelopes Feb 1997
Insert a future date in Word Feb 1997
Improving performance in WordPerfect 7 Feb 1997
Indenting paragraphs in Word Feb 1997
Editing Word's dictionaries Feb 1997
GPF errors under WordPerfect 6.1 Feb 1997
MS Office shortcut bar Dec 1996
Add callouts and vertical lines to Word documents Dec 1996
Quick vertical lines in Word 6 and 7 Dec 1996
Reset customised toolbars in Word 6 and 7 Dec 1996
Get the stats on WordPerfect 7 for Windows 95 documents Dec 1996
Binder brings it together Dec 1996
Command line switches for Word and Netscape Nov 1996
Save Web pages, open multiple documents Nov 1996
Paste without waste Nov 1996
Fixing slow scrolling in Word 6 Oct 1996
How, how, how do you stop repeating errors? Sep 1996
Quick highlighting in WinWord Sep 1996
Copying Word macros Sep 1996

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