IT tips #24: How to make time-saving templates in Word
A real template in Word is a thing of beauty and magic that can be used to save you a lot of time and make your computer do what it…
IT tips #22: In MS Word, how to put a landscape page into a portrait document
NB: Please read the 26/1/2016 update at the end of this page before you try the method below! This is the problem: you need to insert a large table in…
IT tips #13: Make a form in Word that you can *really* fill in
One of the annoyances of 21st century life is when you get sent what is called a ‘form’ to be filled in ‘electronically’ which is in fact just a Word…
IT tips #12: Select text in Word as a graphic block
Let’s say you’ve copied and pasted an enormous block of text from a document in such a way that you end up with bullet points or numbered lists or a…
IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
Dummy text for dummies This much I know – it’s much harder to write an article of 250 words than one of 2,500. The word count of articles I’ve written…
IT tips #10: Customise keyboard shortcuts to enter weird characters in Word
If there’s an off-beat symbol that you have to put in to documents regularly (in my case, it’s the P in a circle that means ‘phonographic copyright’) you can cut…