Microsoft Office’s word processing application, Word, has some interesting and helpful capabilities. Included in this blog entry are three techniques, some beginner level and some intermediate level. All three techniques are described for both Macintosh and Windows computers. The Macintosh techniques are explained first and the Windows techniques follow.
MACINTOSH _______________________________
Technique #1... Change case
If I were writing this tech tip in Word, I might decide that I preferred that the subhead-- MACINTOSH--be done in mixed case letters--Macintosh--rather than in upper case as it is. Rather than retyping the word I could simply highlight it and then select Format > Change Case > Title Case.
Format > Change Case…
Choices are…
* Sentence case
* Lowercase
* UPPERCASE
* Title Case
* tOGGLE cASE
Five choices are available, four of which are oftentimes quite useful.
Technique #2... Place a border around text
Sometimes I want to make a section of text stand out from the remaining text. Placing a border around the section of text can do that.
Highlight the text and…
Select Outside Border on the Formatting Toolbar
or
Format > Borders and Shading > Borders tab > Box
Technique #3... Create charts from Word tables
Select your table
Insert > Picture > Chart > Microsoft Graph Chart
OR
Insert > Object > Microsoft Graph Chart
The above action will open your graph program
Graph > Quit and Return to Document
Changes in the data in the table will NOT automatically show up in the chart… You must go back to the graph program and make the change there… and that will show in the chart.
WINDOWS ________________________________
Technique #1... Change case
If I were writing this tech tip in Word, I might decide that I preferred that the subhead-- WINDOWS--be done in mixed case letters--Windows--rather than in upper case as it is. Rather than retyping the word I could simply highlight it and then select Format > Change Case > Title Case.
Format > Change Case…
Choices are…
* Sentence case
* Lowercase
* UPPERCASE
* Title Case
* tOGGLE cASE
Five choices are available, four of which are oftentimes quite useful.
Technique #2... Place a border around text
Sometimes I want to make a section of text stand out from the remaining text. Placing a border around the section of text can do that.
Highlight the text and…
Formatting Toolbar > Border Button pulldown menu and choose the border type you want
Technique #3... Create charts from Word tables
Select your table
Insert > Picture > Chart
A datasheet and chart will appear
Changes in the data in the table will NOT automatically show up in the chart… You must go back to the datasheet and make the change there… and that will show in the chart.
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