Microsoft Word also known as Ms Word is one of the office productivity applications included in the Microsoft Office suite. It is one of the most preferred Word processors. Our blog is dedicated to make use of Word simple, easy and efficient. It covers Tips and Tricks to use Ms Word for creating report, thesis and dissertation, equation and more.
Truly speaking, Ms Word doesn’t have a feature to transpose a table. However, there are a couple of different tricks by which you can transpose a Word table. One of the quickest way is by using a Macro. Though looks like quite a task however, if you are someone who frequently transpose a table then this could be of great time saver. Steps to transpose table using Macro Place the… Read More »Transpose table in Ms Word with 1 click
Jane has a big Ms Word document where she wants to replace CO2 with CO2. She noted we could not replace text with subscript or superscript using standard Find and Replace option. In-fact, find and replace tool treats subscript as normal text i.e. find and replace tool of Word treats CO2 as CO2. Ms Word provides a couple of different ways to achieve it. Method 1: Using Format option in… Read More »Replace text with subscript or superscript in Ms Word
Let’s say while finalizing table you need to re-order row (or rows) of Word Table by moving it up or down. Ms Word provides a hidden shortcut (one of my favourites from all table tricks) to quickly move one or multiple rows up and down the table with a keyboard. Steps to move row (or rows) up and down Position the cursor in the row you want to move or… Read More »Hidden trick to quickly move rows of Ms Word Table
Ms Word table allows the user to resize column/table manually. However, it also has a build-in feature that can automatically adjusts column or table width in just few clicks. Autofit columns width to fit the size of content To auto-fit column width to fit the size of text or table contents automatically. Select the entire table Go to Layout > Autofit and select “Autofit Contents” The above setting optimize column… Read More »How to autofit column width of Ms Word Table
Ms Word has a feature to generate a Table of Contents with 1 click, provided all the contents you need in Table of Content (TOC) are formatted as Headings Style. TOC made by this process are also easy to update. Steps to update Table of Contents (TOC) Click on Table of Contents (TOC) that you need to update Click “Update Table” shown at the top of TOC From the dialogue… Read More »How to update table of contents in Ms Word with 1 click
Table is one of the most commonly used elements in Ms Word Table. Following are the Ms Word table shortcuts that may help you save time and effort while working with them. Note: In the shortcut described below, + is used where keys are pressed simultaneously while “,” is used in case where keys needs to be pressed successively (one after other) To do this Windows shortcut Mac shortcut Move… Read More »Must know shortcuts for working with Tables in Ms Word (Windows & Mac)
Microsoft Word is the most popular and widely used word processor. Keyboard shortcut helps user do task quickly and efficiently. Ms Word provides keyboard shortcut for almost all tasks. Following list contains the Ms Word’s most useful and frequently used shortcut. List of most useful and commonly used Ms Word shortcut. You can get most of the Mac shortcut by simply replacing Ctrl (of Windows) with Command (of Mac) To… Read More »Most useful Word shortcut that you should not forget [Windows & Mac]
Microsoft Word has a feature to show non-printing characters like paragraph mark (¶) in case you need it. Though it is useful to see them in some situation, they don’t look good & you may want to get rid of paragraph symbol and other formatting characters in Word. There are a couple of different ways to get rid of these annoying non-printing formatting characters in Word. In most of the… Read More »Get rid of paragraph mark (¶) & other formatting symbol in Word
We use a watermark to show copyright / owner (company name), state (draft, final) or status (confidential) of the document. However, when they change, you may sometime need to delete the watermark. In majority of the cases it is not possible to select watermark and delete it (like we do with normal text and images) There are a couple of different ways by which you can delete watermark in Word.… Read More »Easy way to get rid of any watermark in Ms Word (Windows and MacOs)
Developer tab give Word user additional advance options like write/record and run Macro, Active-X control, XML command etc. However, it’s not available in Word by default and you need to enable it with one time setting. In our earlier blog, we covered how to enable/show developer tab in Ms Word for Windows. This blog covers how to do the same in Ms Word for Mac along with video tutorial. The… Read More »How to show developer tab in Ms Word for Mac