Can't Select Style Instances

Using the Styles and Formatting task pane, Word allows you to select all instances of a given style in your document. This capability is controlled by a configuration setting in Word, as described in this tip.

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Canceling Printing

Need to stop the printing of a long document? Here's how to stop Word, along with why stopping Word may not be the only thing you need to do.

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Fantastic Fields!

At last count Word provides 75 dynamic field codes you can use to add everything from page numbers to hyperlinks to your documents. Discover the ins and outs of the vast majority of Word's powerful field codes.

Dictionary Shortcut Key

Need a quick way to display the dictionary or other grammar tools? Use one of the handy built-in shortcuts provided by Word.

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Breaking Lines in E-mail

If you are creating an e-mail in Word or are creating text that you will paste into an e-mail document, you may want to limit the length of each line of that text. This is easy to manually do in short messages, but much more difficult and time consuming in longer messages. The handy macro in this tip can do the tedious work for you, rendering a plain text message with each line no longer than a specific length.

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New video: Copying Found Items to a New Document
Word allows you to use its searching capabilities to easily find multiple items in a document. What if you want to copy all those found items to a different document? Here are some techniques you can use.

New video: Accept All Changes by a Reviewer
The Track Changes feature in Word allows you and other editors to easily collaborate on the development of a document. If you want to accept all the changes made by one particular editor, follow the steps in this Quick Tip.

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