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Forcing the Date to the Next Wednesday

2008-11-29T01:04:00-08:00

Working with today's date in Word is easy. Trying to manipulate dates to come up with a future one can be an entirely different story. This tip provides a quick and easy macro that inserts the date of whatever next Wednesday happens to be.

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Can't Save Formatted Entries in Word 2007 AutoCorrect

2008-11-29T01:03:00-08:00

When creating AutoCorrect entries in Word 2007, how you go about creating the entry can be an important part of what you can do with that entry. Here's an explanation of how to correctly create an AutoCorrect entry.

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Printing Blank Envelopes

2008-11-29T01:02:00-08:00

When you try to print an envelope in Word, it can be vexing if the envelope always goes through the printer and remains blank. Understanding why this happens can involve a bit of detective work.

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Understanding Document Variables

2008-11-29T01:01:00-08:00

When working with macros, you may want to create a variable that will remain constant from one instance of the macro to another. This is a great use for document variables, as described in this tip.

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Help Wanted: Endnotes by Chapter

2008-11-29T01:00:00-08:00

I have a book manuscript that consists of twenty chapters. Each chapter is in its own document file, and each chapter has its own endnotes. I would like to create one large, single document file for the manuscript, with the endnotes properly separated by chapter at the end, and renumbered from 1-X in each endnote section, as they are now. What is the best way to accomplish this, in a way that will permit continued work on the manuscript?

-David Hoffman

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Help Wanted: Creating an Inline Heading

2008-11-29T01:00:00-08:00

APA style defines a level-three heading as being indented in italic on the same line as the first sentence in the paragraph. My question is how do I define this as a heading style that will appear properly in the Table of Contents without including the rest of the paragraph in the TOC?

-Pete Schramm

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Printing Only Changed Pages

2008-11-22T01:04:00-08:00

Turn Track Changes on, and you can easily see where you've made changes throughout a document. If you want to print only those pages on which changes have been made, you are out of luck, however. Here's a way you can get around this limitation, however.

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Making Sure a Document Always Has an Even Number of Pages

2008-11-22T01:03:00-08:00

For some documents, you may want to make sure that a printout always has an even number of pages. Word has no intrinsic way to do this, but you can work around this apparent limitation using the techniques in this tip.

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Adding Automatic Lines

2008-11-22T01:02:00-08:00

Want an easy way to add lines in your document? You can do it by making sure Word is using one of its AutoFormat features.

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Using Object Anchors

2008-11-22T01:01:00-08:00

An object anchor is used to signify the point at which an object is inserted into a document. If you want to see these anchors, you need to configure Word to display them.

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