Moving Breaks Quickly

Breaks in a document can be easily moved from one place to another using familiar editing techniques. The trick is to make sure that you are viewing your document in Normal view.

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Creating Files with Mail Merge

When you use mail merge to create a document that incorporates all your data source records, you end up with a large document that is divided into sections. You can use a macro to easily split such a document into individual files, one for each data record.

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Use Tables Effectively

Microsoft Word is wonderful at presenting data clearly and easily. Creating a table is one of the ways you can present your data. Creating tables is easy, but using them effectively can be tricky. WordTips: Terrific Tables allows you to get the most from your tables.

Hiding Gridlines

For those times when you remove the borders from your tables, Word provides a way that you can display non-printing gridlines. These help you to see the structure of your table.

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Printing a Style Sheet

Styles are a fantastic way to format your documents easily and consistently. At some point you may want to print out a list of styles available for a particular document. Here's how to do it.

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New video: Using Background Printing
We click the button to print our document and seldom think of what is happening behind the scenes. Word prints documents, by default, in the background as we continue to work. This Quick Tip shows how you can change this behavior.

New video: Calculating Average Word Length
Word keeps track of many statistics about your documents. The problem, it seems, is getting exactly the statistics you need in a way you can readily use. This Quick Tip looks at how you can use the statistics to calculate an average length of the words in a selection or in the document.

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