10 Word Tips

Use tables to place text and pictures on a document rather than tabs. From the Table menu, select Insert, Table and type in the number of columns and rows you require. To hide the borders, click anywhere in the table and from the Table menu, select Table Properties then on the Table tab, click the Borders and Shading button. On the Borders tab, click in the None box. You will still see borders on the screen but they won’t print out. Resize the columns and rows to fit your layout by dragging the column or row borders.
To quickly insert a new row at the bottom of a table, click in the last cell of the table and press the Tab key. A new row will be created automatically.
Return to the place where you last were in your document by clicking Shift + F5. Word remembers your last 3 locations so you can keep pressing it to go back to previous locations.
Use the Document Browser to move around the document. The Document Browser is found at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar; it is the button with a ball on between a button with a double up arrow and a button with a double down arrow. The default setting is browse by page so when you press the double down arrows you are taken to the next page in your document. The double up arrows take you to the previous page. Press the Document Browser button to change the object you want to browse by. You can browse the document by tables, fields, headings, footnotes, endnotes, graphics, sections and edits.
If you are editing a very long document and you are finding it a bit slow, you can change the font temporarily to Draft Font to speed it up. You need to be in Normal view then select Tools, Options from the menu, choose the View tab and check the Draft font box.
Word’s Find and Replace feature is so useful. As well as being able to replace general text and formatting, you can also replace items in your document with anything you place in the clipboard, e.g. a graphic or a block of text. Copy a graphic to the clipboard by selecting the graphic and clicking Ctrl + C. In the document, select Replace from the Edit menu, type the text you want to replace in the Find box and type ^c in the Replace box. Click Replace All and the text will be replaced with your graphic.
Go immediately to the halfway point in your document by using the Go To box. Click F5, select Page in the Go To What box then type 50% in the Enter Page Number box. You can use other percentages to go to other points in the document here too.
If you frequently have trouble with section breaks, when you first create a document, add a dummy section break at the end of the document. The settings for a section (e.g. headers, footers, page orientation) are stored in the section break therefore your original document settings will be stored in the final dummy section break. When you delete a section break, the new merged section takes on the settings of the section break at the end. The quickest way to copy settings between sections is to copy the section break. So if the settings of your sections have got confused, you can either delete the section breaks so you are left with your original settings in the dummy section break at the end of the document or you can copy the dummy section break to the end of a section to reset the settings to the original. Also it is easier to work with section breaks when in Normal view.
To quickly move a section of text up or down a page, select the text and click Shift + Alt + either the up arrow key or the down arrow key.
If you ever want to remove all the manually applied formatting from a section of text, select the text and press Ctrl + Spacebar. The formatting will revert to the formatting set in the paragraph's style.

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