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Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

You're reading from   Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks Discover better ways of creating, customizing, and troubleshooting your documents

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565432
Length 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bill Kulterman Bill Kulterman
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Heather Ackmann Heather Ackmann
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word
2. Chapter 1: There Is No One Word FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Others Remotely (Sharing and Collaboration) 4. Chapter 3: Reviewing Documents Remotely 5. Chapter 4: Concentrating Better with Microsoft Word 6. Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
7. Chapter 5: Working with Short Documents 8. Chapter 6: Lists and Characters 9. Chapter 7: Structuring Long Documents for Better Organization 10. Chapter 8: Saving Time and Ensuring Consistency with Styles 11. Chapter 9: Working Faster with Automation 12. Chapter 10: Working with Illustrations, Charts, and Tables 13. Chapter 11: Writing for Everyone – Understanding Document Accessibility 14. Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems
15. Chapter 12: Formatting Problems – Too Much Space 16. Chapter 13: Transforming Annoying Automation 17. Chapter 14: Fixing Frustrating Numbers and Bullet Lists 18. Chapter 15: Stuck Like Glue – Word's Deceptively Simple Paste Options 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating breaks

Beginners to Microsoft Word and other word processing programs frequently make the mistake of creating new sections or pages by simply hitting the Return or Enter key repeatedly on their keyboard to create the appearance of a new page or a new section within their document. The problem with this method is that if you ever go back and edit a previous paragraph in your document or insert a picture or resize anything that appears before all those carriage returns, all that space may shift to an unintended place within your document.

A break is different from hitting the Enter key on your keyboard. In fact, if you open any Word document and click on the Show/Hide Paragraph Marks toggle button, you can view all of the hidden formatting marks in any Word document to view all the spaces, paragraph marks, or even section breaks that appear within that document. You can find this option in the Home tab, as you can see in the following screenshot:

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