Tweaking Apps
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.
Another shortcut for launching Find and Replace is by pressing Ctrl + G.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to use autocorrect for replacing text with picture
Step 1: Navigate to Insert menu, click Pictures under illustrations section
Step 2: Using the Insert Picture dialog, select and add image to the document.
Step 3: Click File menu, select Options from the menu list.
Step 4: In Word Option window, navigate to Proofing section and click AutoCorrect Options.
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)
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.
In this tutorial, we are going to see the steps to required for inserting numeric symbols such as
?, ? in Word 2016 and Word 2013. This is in addition to earlier topic related with inserting symbol in a word document.
Step 1: From Home menu, navigate to the Insert menu.
Step 2: Then click the arrow pointing downwards under Symbol option and select More Symbols.
Step 3: In the Symbol window, click Font dropdown and select Yu Mincho from the list.
Also See: How to insert math symbol in Microsoft Word
Step 4: Scroll down the Yu Mincho symbol list and select numeric symbol that needs to be inserted in the document.
You can also note down the shortcut key, if you are repeatedly going to use the symbol.
Word 2016 & 2013 users have an option to remove the author name that is displayed as part of File Properties. If you have created a word document, right click on the file and selecting properties > Details tab should display the author’s name.
Similarly if you navigate to File > Info, the Related People section should display the following information.
Listed below are the steps for removing the author’s name from document properties.
Step 1: After Creating/Editing the document, click File menu then Info menu.
Step 2: In the Info screen, navigate to Inspect Document section and select Inspect Document from Check for Issues dropdown.
Step 3: Click the Inspect button in Document Inspector window.
This would start inspecting your document.
Step 4: If your document contains Personal Information like Author then the following warning message will be displayed. Click Remove All button to clear the Document Properties and Author details.
You should see the following “Document properties and personal information were successfully removed” message.
Now if you navigate to Related People section in the Info screen, you will not find Author details.
And the same for the File Properties > Details tab as well (after saving the document with these changes).
Also See: Change the author name for Tracking Changes in Word 2010
PowerPoint 2016 & 2013 users can use the export feature to create handout notes for their presentation in Word. This is quite useful when you want to quickly take print out of your presentation notes for all your audience.
Step 1: Open the presentation in PowerPoint 2013, click File menu and select Export option from the menu list.
Step 2: Click Create Handouts under Create Handouts in Microsoft Word (Export Screen)
This should display the following Send to Microsoft Word window.
Step 3: Now choose the Page layout in Microsoft Word and specify whether you want to add slides to Microsoft Word document and just link to the slides.
Since I want only the text, I have gone with Outline only option.
Step 4: Click OK button to start exporting the presentation from PowerPoint to Microsoft Word.
This should launch a new word document with content from PowerPoint Presentation.
When we launch Microsoft Outlook, the default startup folder will be Inbox.
The startup folder can be changed to your preferred choice using outlook options menu. Listed below are the steps to change the startup folder in Outlook 2016, 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007.
In Outlook 2016, 2013 and Outlook 2010 the startup folder can be using the settings available as part of Advanced Mail options.
Click on the File menu –> Options link and navigate to the Advanced options
In Outlook start and exit section, using the Start Outlook in this folder field you can specify the startup folder. If you want to select a different folder other than Inbox then click on the Browse button and using the Select Folder dialog box you choose the required folder. Click OK button to select the folder. To save the changes, click on the OK button in the Advanced Options screen.
For example, you attend lot of meeting and want to start your day with list of meetings that is scheduled for that day. So you want to have Calendar as the startup folder in Outlook.
Click the File menu –> Options link then click the Advanced tab under Outlook Options window. In the Advanced Options, navigate to Outlook start and exit section.
Click the Browse button and select Calendar from the displayed items.
Then click Ok button to confirm and save the changes. By this way Outlook 2010 users can set Calendar as the startup folder.
Changing startup folder in Outlook 2007
Go to Tools –> Options –> Other tab and click on the Advanced button
In the Advanced Options dialog box under General settings, you can specify the value for Startup in the folder
The new folder can be selected using the Browse button.
select the new folder and click OK to save the changes.
Also See: Auto launch Outlook at Windows Startup
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.
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.
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.
This tutorial is about the steps required to insert symbols in Word 2016 and Word 2013 document. Let us say you want to include Indian Rupees in the document and want to add Rupee symbol.
Step 1: In the word document, navigate to the place where you want to insert Rupee symbol.
Step 2: Click the Insert menu followed by Symbol drop down under Symbols section.
Step 3: If the Rupee Symbol is not listed in the dropdown list then click the More Symbols option.
Step 4: Select Currency Symbols in Subset dropdown and pick Rupee symbol from the list. Clicking the Insert button should add symbol to the document.
If you are going to be use the symbol frequently then you can assign a shortcut key for the Rupee Symbol. Click the Shortcut Key button and enter a new shortcut key (e.g. Alt+Shift+S) in Customize Keyboard window.
Click the Assign button after entering the Shortcut key. Now if you want to insert rupee symbol in the document then use the Keyboard shortcut (e.g. Alt+Shift+S).