Things They Don't Tell You
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| Shift-F4 | After running a search (Edit-Find) and the dialog box is closed you can run the same search (even on a new document) by pressing Shift-F4 (the dialog box will not open, but the Find command will find the next word. |
| Hold down the Shift key and DoubleClick mouse button on My Computer |
Will automatically start Explore* |
| Control a | Select all text |
| Control b | Bold |
| Control c | Copy to clipboard |
| Control e | Centered |
| Control i | Italic |
| Control l | Left justified |
| Control n | New document |
| Control q | Remove all formating |
| Control r | Right justified |
| Control t | Indent paragraph after tab has been set |
| Control u | Underline |
| Control v | Paste from clipboard |
| Control x | Delete (but can be pasted elsewhere), this is not lost |
| Control F6 | Switch between open documents |
| F3 (when in explorer) | Opens the Find Dialog Box |
| Shift F3 | Changes capital/non capital letters |
*From PC Magazine Nov. 1997 pg.295
I. Autocorrect
II. Autoformat
Numbering
Bullets
III. AutoText
Remove item from the middle of a numbered list
If you have a list of items and in the middle you want to remove the numbering (but keep the item in the list) then put the cursor at the paragraph mark of the item you want to un-number. On the tool bar that shows numbering icon click the icon and the number will be removed from that paragraph and the words will remain. You will have to click on the increase indent icon on the toolbar to move the words indented to keep your formating
Before change
1. one
2. two
3. three
After change
1. one
two (the indent can't be shown here)
2. three
AutoCorrect - Always mispell the same word? Then from the menu bar choose Tools - Autocorrect. From the tab for autocorrect type in the incorrect word and then type replace with the correct word. Click on Add. Now when you mistype the word it will automatically be corrected.
AutoFormat - From the menu bar choose Tools - Autocorrect and then click on the tab for AutoFormatAsYouType and remove the check from Automatic Bullets and Automatic Numbers. Now when you want to add the numbers you can click on the icon on the toolbar instead.
AutoText - Type the same thing several times? As in a name and title? Then place this in AutoText and give a shortcut. I.e. instead of typing "the pharmacokinetic - pharmacodynamic evaluation of preformulated compounds" each time in a manuscript you can:
1. Type your sentence the pharmacokinetic - pharmacodynamic evaluation of preformulated compounds
2. Highlight all the words you want to use again.
3. From the toolbar choose Insert - AutoText - New (or just press Alt-F3). A Box will come up for you to enter a shortened form (i.e. abc - or something you normally wouldn't type as a word but would be easy to remember)
4. Then when you want to type the same phrase just type pke and press F3. The whole statement will be automatically inserted in your document.
Delete/Edit AutoText
1. Once you have finished with the document and you think you will not be using this phrase again it can be deleted.
2. From the menu bar choose Insert - Autotext - AutoText
3. This will bring up a new box with several tabs - one of which is autotext. This will give a list of all your autotext statements which can be deleted or edited as necessary.
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