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How to import word document in to Publisher 2013

July 24, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

Microsoft Publisher automatically converts a word document in to Publisher File. Listed below are the steps for importing a word document using Publishing 2013.

Step 1: Launch Publisher 2013.

Step 3: Click File menu and select Open from the menu list.

Step 3: Now locate the word document that needs to imported in to Publisher using the Open Publishing window.

On clicking the Open button, Publisher will automatically convert the Word document in to a Publisher file with the following “Publisher is converting the file” message.

How to convert text to table in Word 2011 for Mac

June 10, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

Word 2011 for Mac has a feature that allow users to convert selected text to table. Let us see how to convert the below text to a table using Convert Text to Table feature.

Step 1: Select the text and click Table menu.

Step 2: In the Table menu list, navigate to Convert and select Convert Text to Table option. This would display the Convert Text to Table window as shown below.

Step 3: The example texts are separated using Tabs, navigate to Separate text at section and choose Tabs from the available option. This should automatically detect the rows and columns if the text are only separated by tab. If you are using other delimiters then choose appropriate separators for conversion.

Step 4: Choose the AutoFit behaviour and increase the table size if you are planning to add more rows and columns. Click Ok to confirm and save the changes.

How to add background for document in Word 2011 for Mac

June 1, 2013 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

This tutorial is about the steps required to add background colour or picture to word document in Word 2011 for Mac.

Step 1: Launch the Word Application on Mac and click the Layout Option.

Step 2: In the Layout option, navigate to Page Background section and click the Colors option.

Step 3: The Color drop down will provide different option for changing colours, setting fill effects. The default page background is set to No Fill. If you are looking for other colours other than the theme colours or Standard Colours then click the More Colours option.

You can choose from Color Wheel, Color Sliders, Color Palettes, Image Palettes and Crayons.

Step 4: If you are interested set Patterns or select an image as background then click The Fill effects option.

You can go for Gradient, Texture, Pattern or set background image.

If you want to set background image for a paragraph instead whole document then select the paragraph and repeat the above steps.

How to launch Word 2013 with blank document

July 18, 2012 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Word 2013 by default displays the start screen during the launch. But if you find this feature not useful and want to always open blank document when launching the application then you can use the settings available part Word 2013 options.

Step 1: Launch Word 2013 and click the File menu.

Step 2: From the left hand sidebar, select Options from the list.

Step 3: In the Word Options window, navigate to Startup Options under the General tab.

Step 4: Unmark the check box with label as Show the Start screen when this application starts. Then click OK button to confirm and save the changes.

Now when ever you launch Word 2013 it will open a blank document.