Understanding Master and Subdocuments

Most people use Word to create regular documents that you edit, view, and print. The program also allows you to create a special type of document relationship that involves master documents and subdocuments. This tip explains what these types of documents are and how they relate to each other.

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Resetting Word Menus

Word allows you to customize the program's menus as much as you want. At some point, however, you may want the menus to revert to their default condition. This tip explains how you can quickly and easily accomplish the reversion.

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Word Macros, from the Ground Up

Macros are the key to making Word do what you really want it to do. I've written a complete tutorial that explains, from the ground up, how you can harness the power of macros. Word VBA Guidebook provides the information you need to finally conquer Word macros.

Changing the Footnote Separator

When you print a document that uses footnotes, Word normally places a small line between the end of the document body text and the start of the footnotes on the page. You can change this line to anything you want by following the steps in this tip.

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Finding Related Words

One part of the grammar tools provided with Word is a thesaurus that helps you find all sorts of word variations. One type of variation is a "related" word, which means a word that is similar to the word you are examining. This tip provides information on how to access those related words.

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New video: Printing Only Selected Pages
I often need to print only select pages of a document, rather than the whole thing. Word makes it easy to be judicious in what you print. In this Quick Tip I show you how to print just those pages that you need.

New video: Printing a Document Draft
Do you need to print a copy of a document, but you don't care if it looks as "pretty" as you want the final printout to look? If so, you need to print a draft copy, as described in this Quick Tip.

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