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Go To specific page number in Word

January 14, 2016 By Ravi Shankar 5 Comments

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

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013 Tagged With: Go To, Office 2010, Page Number, Tips, Word 2010, Word 2013

What is a status bar in Word document

October 27, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

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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

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Customize, Office 2010, Status Bar, Word 2010, Word Status Bar

How to add a new page in Word

October 24, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

This is a short tutorial on Adding or inserting a new page in Word 2016, 2013 and 2010. This can be done using the options available as part of the Insert menu Word. To add a new page in a Word 2010 document, point the cursor to the place where you want to insert a page.

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Navigate to the Insert menu and click the Blank Page menu option available as part of the Pages section.

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This would insert a new page at place where the cursor placed before.

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Add Page, Insert Page, New Page, Office 2010, Word 2010

Turn off automatically created border lines in Word

October 19, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: AutoCorrect, automatically, border, Create, Stop, Temporary, Turn Off, Word 2010

How to enable insert equation in Word

October 19, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 7 Comments

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.

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Enable, insert equation, mathematical, Word 2003, Word 2010

Remove page number from selected pages in Word

October 15, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Page Number, Remove, Section Break, Word 2010

How to add filename to footer in Word

October 15, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 allows users to add filename to the footer section using Quick Parts. For example, if you want add filename in a three column footer then you can do the following.

Insert Footer

In the Word document, navigate to Insert menu, click the Footer option and pick Blank (Three Columns) from drop down list.

Insert Footer in Word 2010

Insert filename in Footer

After selecting the column where you want to insert filename, navigate to Quick Parts under Text section and click the Filed menu option.

Insert Field Word 2010

In the Filed window, select Filename under Field names and choose your preferred format i.e. Uppercase, Lowercase, First capital, Title case and None.

Field Options Word 2010

If you want to add path to the filename then navigate to Fields options section and tick the check box with label as Add path to filename. Click OK button to confirm and save the changes. Now your Footer section will reflect the filename with the path.

Update filename in Footer

In future if you change the name of the file then you can update the footer with the new filename by right clicking on the filename section and selecting Update Filed menu option.

Update Field Word 2010

Filed Under: Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Add, Field name, filename, Footer, Insert, path, Quick Parts, Update, Word 2010

How set paper size to A5 in Word

October 14, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 7 Comments

We had earlier covered about the steps required for changing the paper size in Word. And to this couple of readers had asked question on How to add A5 to the paper size list. So in case you don’t see A5 or any other paper size then use the custom paper size option available as Page Setup. Let us see how to add A5 paper size to the Page Setup in Word 2016, 2013 & 2010

Click File then Print menu and navigate to Settings section.

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Click the drop down with value displayed as Letter. Then select the More Paper Sizes from the list.

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In the Page Setup window, navigate to Page Size and set the value for the drop down to Custom Size. Then enter the Width and Height for A5 Paper Size as 5.8” and 8.3” respectively. Then click the OK button to confirm and save the changes.

Note :- If you are not sure about the Height and Width of Paper Sizes (4A0 to A10) then refer this website.

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Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: A5, Change Paper Size, Custom Paper Size, Word 2010

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