Remember how easy it was to create a Table of Contents in Excel? Well, this time, we are going to give it a try on Word 2010. TOC (Table of Contents) in Word is just as easy and can be accomplished in quick time, provided you have added the right styles when preparing your document. Styles refer to … [Read more...]
My friend had to prepare an assessment for her college project and was required to provide citations for the references she made from various publications she used in her work. She needed a bit of help in setting up the footnotes and while I helped her set up her footnotes, I realized that there may … [Read more...]
Using bulleted lists and numbered lists is a pretty easy task in Word. In fact, if automatic numbering is set in Word, you can simply enter 1 followed by a period to start a numbered list. However, there may be times, when you want to add a prefix to a numbered list. For instance, you may want to … [Read more...]
If you use Word 2010 to write equations and other mathematical values, you may have noticed that it’s not quite so obvious to write a fraction in a stacked form. That is, write a fraction with a horizontal bar between the numerator and the denominator as opposed to a horizontal slash. It is not a … [Read more...]
If you use tables in a Word document, you probably know how to insert rows in the table. For instance you can use the commands in the Table Tools Layout contextual tab, or simply press Tab until you have the desired number of rows. You can even use options in the right-click context menu to achieve … [Read more...]
If you worked with tables in a Word 2010 document, you would have noticed that adding continuous numbering to the cells within the table is a straightforward task if you want the items to be numbered row wise. This is because, by default, Word numbers the items in a table row wise. If you want the … [Read more...]
Have you ever entered text in a Word document to find that Word has automatically added hyperlinks to the text. This usually happens when you’ve entered URLs. While that may be fine in most cases, you may sometimes want the text you typed to just remain as text. You can of course, do this … [Read more...]
If you are working with a series of numbers in a Word document and you need to sum up the numbers, you don’t have to pull out your calculator or open up an Excel sheet, or even put the numbers inside a table to find out the sum of the values. Word 2010 has a hidden command, that lets you do the … [Read more...]
If you have received a Word document from a colleague and want to have the text contained in the document read out to you, you can make use of the Speak command in Word to hear the written word. The cool thing about the Text-to-speech (TTS) feature is that it is built-in to Office 2010, so you … [Read more...]
