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.
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.
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).
Users of Word 2016 and 2013 can create a link to another document within their document using the Insert Object or Hyperlink feature. This is quite useful when you want to include reference documents inside your document.
Step 1: In the main document, navigate and place the cursor to the position where you want to insert the document.
Step 2: Click the Insert menu then the Object option available under Text section.
Step 3: In the Object window, click Create from File tab and choose the required file via browse button.
Make sure to mark the check box with caption as “Display as icon”. If you want the changes to linked document to be reflected in your document then mark checkbox with label as Link to file.
Step 4: Click the OK button to confirm and save the changes. Now your document will have a link to the other document as shown below
Another alternate way to link a word document is by creating hyperlink pointing to that document.
Step 1: Access the Insert Hyperlink window via the right click Context Menu or Hyperlink option under the Links (Insert menu)
Step 2: In the Link to section choose Existing File or Web Page then select Current Folder option under Look in section.
Step 3: Give a name to the Linked document by entering the name in Text to display and then pick the required document.
Step 4: Click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.
This should create a link to the document as shown below.
All programs do not provide option to choose the colour for printing pages. Word 2016 and Word 2013 users can print their coloured document in black and white using the option available as part of the Printer properties.
Step 1: Click the Fie menu and select Print from menu list.
Step 2: Navigate to Printer section and click the Printer Properties.
Step 3: In the Printer Properties window, click the Paper/Quality tab.
Step 4: Navigate to Colour section and mark the radio option with caption as Black & White. Then click OK button to confirm and save the changes.
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.
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
Step 3: Then select “Change folder and search options” under Options.
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”.
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.
