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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

Chapter 12: Formatting Problems – Too Much Space

It will happen; you are collaborating on a group project, maybe at work or at school, and you open the Word document that your group has been collaborating on, and it looks, well, strange. The words are fine, but there is all of this extra space, perhaps between the letters or paragraphs, or there are margins appearing that weren't there before. You don't want to play the blame game. That would be a waste of time. All you know is that this is extra space that you didn't put there, you don't know how it got there, and you aren't sure how to remove it. This document has to go out soon, so it has to be fixed quickly. However, it contains blank spaces and is invisible. So, how do you remove it if you can't actually see it?

That is what this chapter is all about; situations that occasionally arise where someone has sent you a document with all of this random extra space in it, and you have to figure...

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