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Go To specific page number in Word

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In Word 2013 and Word 2010 you can go to specific page in the Word document using the Find and Replace dialog.

To display the Find and Replace dialog, Navigate to Home menu and click on the drop down arrow under Find menu.

Go To option in Word 2013 and Word 2010

Another shortcut for launching Find and Replace is by pressing Ctrl + G.

Find and Replace in Word 2013 and Word 2010

Navigate Go To tab and select Page option for Go to what and specify the page number under the textbox available under Enter page number label.

Also See: Insert and Save watermark in Microsoft Word

Autocorrect in Word – Replace text as you type

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Autocorrect in Microsoft Word 2016, Word 2013, 2010 and 2007 has a feature called replace any text as you type. This tutorial provides an example for replacing text with text and image in Word document.

Replace text as you type in Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010 and Word 2007

In Word 2013 and Word 2010 you can access Proofing section by clicking File menu –> Options. To access AutoCorrect option in Word 2007 click on the Word Options and navigate to Proofing section.

Proofing section in Word document

And on clicking the AutoCorrect Options the following dialog box would be displayed. Under Replace text as you type, you can add the text which needs to be replaced it is typed in the Word Document.

Replace text as you type in Word

For example if you want dato be replaced with Digital Answers in word document, then add da to the left hand side and Digital Answers to right hand side then click Add button.

Replace text with text using Autcorrect

How to use autocorrect for replacing text with picture

Step 1: Navigate to Insert menu, click Pictures under illustrations section

Insert Pictures in Word 2013

Step 2: Using the Insert Picture dialog, select and add image to the document.

Select Picture Dialog in Word 2013

Step 3: Click File menu, select Options from the menu list.

Word Options in Word 2013

Step 4: In Word Option window, navigate to Proofing section and click AutoCorrect Options.

AutoCorrect Options in Word 2013

Step 5: Now enter the name under Replace text and make sure Formatted Text radio option is selected. (If you have not selected any image then this option will not be displayed)

Replace text as you type in Word 2013

Step 6: Click Add button to add the entry to AutoCorrect list. Then OK button on the AutoCorrect and Word Options to close the windows.

Now whenever you type the replace text, it will be automatically replaced with the image. If you are frequently going to insert company logo or your signature then you try this feature.

Formatted Text in Word 2013

Also See: Find Autocorrect entries file in Word 2010

What is a status bar in Word document

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Microsoft Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 displays a status bar at the bottom of a Word document. Word status bar displays information such word count, page number, line number, zoom, zoom slider, Language and many more details.

Status bar in Word 2013 and Word 2010

These details displayed on the word status bar can be configured by using the Customize Status Bar context menu. The Customize Status Bar can be accessed by right clicking the status bar.

Turn on or off status bar feature in Word 2013 and Word 2010

In order to turn on or turn off the display of a feature, You can check or un check on the left hand side of a feature.

Also See: Find out character count Microsoft Word document

Missing file extension while saving document in Word

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If you are working on Word 2016 or Word 2013 on Windows 7/8/10 operating system then while saving the document by default the file extension will not be displayed.

Missing file extension Word 2013

Listed below are the steps to make Word 2016 and Word 2013 to display the file extension on Windows 8.

Step 1: Launch Windows Explorer on Windows 8.

Step 2: Navigate to the View tab in Windows Explorer and click Options

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Step 3: Then select “Change folder and search options” under Options.

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Step 4: In the Folder Options window, navigate to Advanced Settings under View tab. Then unmark the checkbox with label as “Hide extensions for known file types”.

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Click OK button to confirm and save the changes. Now when you try to save any Word document, you will notice the file extension as part of the file name in Save dialog.

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How to insert or remove pages in Word

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This tutorial explains the steps required to insert or delete empty pages in Word 2016, 2013 and 2010.

Adding new page to Word document

There are different ways of inserting new page in Word document such as

  • Using the Blank Page option available as part of Insert menu.
  • Using the Page Break option  available as part of Insert menu.
  • Simply press Enter on the Keyboard at the end of page.

Insert Blank Page

Navigate to Insert menu and click the Black Page option under Pages section.

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When you want quickly insert multiple blank pages then you can use this option.

Insert Page Break

If you want to create a new page with the existing content then click the Page Break option under the Pages section.

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The most easiest way to add new page is by pressing the Enter key on the Keyboard at the bottom of an existing page.

Delete page

Users can remove an empty or blank pages in Word document by

  • Pressing the Backspace key on the Keyboard from the end of the page that needs to be removed.
  • Pressing the Delete key on the Keyboard from the end of the page after which the pages needs to be removed.
  • Use the Show paragraph marker then press the Delete key on the Keyboard

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Turn off automatically created border lines in Word

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Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 have a feature that allows users to automatically create border lines by just typing the character three times. For example if you type dash (-) three times and press enter key in a document, Word will automatically draw a border line with dash character. This is useful when your want to quickly draw border lines in your document.

AutoFormat As You Type – Border lines

Word application allows also users to turn off this feature using the Proofing options. Click the File menu then Options link. In Word Options window, click AutoCorrect options button under Proofing tab.

Word 2010 Autocorrect options

Then in the AutoCorrect window, navigate to Apply as you type section under AutoFormat As You Type tab. Now un mark the check box with label as Border lines. Click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

AutoFormat As You Type Border lines

Quickly turn off border line feature

You can quickly turn off border line feature using the AutoCorrect Context menu Options. Type the character 3 times and press enter to draw the border line. Now select “Stop Automatically Creating Border lines” option from the drop down list.

Stop Automatically Creating Border lines

If you want to temporarily stop creating border line just for one or two occurrences then you press Ctrl + Z to undo the changes.

How to enable insert equation in Word

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Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 provide users with the option to insert mathematical equations in a document. This is quite useful when you are preparing a word document with mathematical questions. Users can insert equations using the option available as part of the Office Ribbon’s Insert menu.

Word 2010 Insert Equation

But when you open an existing document created in Word 2003, the equation menu option would be disabled.

Equation Diasabled

This is because this feature is available only for document with extension as .docx and not doc. And to resolve this problem all you need to do is to resave the document in Word 2010 file format. Please make sure to pick the value for Save as type drop down as “Word Document (*.docx)”.

File Save as type .docx

The following confirmation message would be displayed, click OK to continue with converting the document.

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By this way you can enable the insert equation option in a Word document.

Remove page number from selected pages in Word

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This is in response to the query posted by a reader that “How to remove a page number without removing all page numbers ”.

Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 have a feature that allows users to remove page number for selected pages alone. The option is know as “Section Break” and it is available as part of the Page Setup menu. For example if you have 5 pages in a document and want to remove the page number for the 4th Page then you can follow the below mentioned steps.

Step 1:- In the Word document, scroll down to the page with number as 4.

Step 2:- Navigate to Page Layout menu then click the Break menu option under Page Setup section.

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Step 3 :- Select Next Page from the Breaks menu drop down list.

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Step 4 :- Then double click the Footer of the new page section.

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Step 5 :- Select Same as Previous option in the document and un select the Link to Previous available under the Header & Footer Tools.

Step 6 :- Now you can edit or remove the page number from only the selected page.

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