what's your favourite feature of word

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Favourites: Styles, numbering and tables.

Styles and numbering are also the bugs I hate the most (see m
complaints in the other threads) :
 
Julie, I like the AutoCorrect (but NOT the AutoFormat as You Type). When you
type as poorly as I do, you appreciate the way Word silently corrects all
the little errors you make, such as "teh" for "the." And I like to use this
feature to fool Word into thinking it's correcting my spelling when it's
actually typing text for me. So when I type !ddm and hit Spacebar Word
"corrects" that by typing my full name.
As for my favorite shortcut: To reorder the items in a bulleted or numbered
list, or the paragraphs in a document, or the rows in a table, click the
item (or the table row, or the paragraph) and press SHIFT+ALT+[UP/DOWN
ARROW]. It also works in PowerPoint.

DDM
"DDM's Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks"
http://ddmara.tripod.com
 
One of my favorite timesavers is F4 (repeat). One of my favorite butt savers
is Ctrl+Z (Undo). <g>

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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JulieD said:
Just wondering what everyone's favourite word feature or shortcut is?
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Mostly I'm just fascinated by Word's endless variety. To quote Bob Buckland
(http://word.mvps.org/index.html), "Word rarely misses an opportunity to
perplex."

I've always been a fan of Word's macro capabilities. I was dragged kicking
and (sometimes) screaming from WordBasic to VBA, but I now appreciate the
power of VBA more every day.
 
Just wondering what everyone's favourite word feature or shortcut is?

Customize, and macros.

I can assign anything I want to any key combination and not have to
take my hands off the keyboard.

And put anything I want onto a toolbar or menu, or take anything off.
 
I would say my favourite one is the spell checker. I totaly suck a
spelling since, well I am a techie :) Wife is a senior editor and sh
HATES the spell check in word since she says "its wrong to much". Hell
I like it :
 
You people need to try OpenOffice. Its freeware but it has
all the features you have mentioned so far. Save yourself
some money.
 
Hi,

I especially like the Table, VBA and Equation editor
capabilities. I do a lot of software design and I use
tables extensively to define parameters. I like the
Equation editor for typing formal definitions which use a
lot of symbology. The VBA allows me to automate a lot of
tedious and repetitive tasks. As Suzanne mentions below,
the CTRL Z (undo) is my greatest saviour as my typing is
terrible (Columbus system, find a key and land on it).

Jerry B.
 
I'm a terrible typist, too (though very fast), but Backspace suffices for
most of those problems.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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my terrible typing only started after using the autocorrect feature in word
:) ... another thing i can blame on Microsoft :)
 
It does makes us very lazy. I feel sorry for the people who become so
dependent on AutoCorrect that they are irate when Word doesn't capitalize
the first letter of a sentence following a number. I gently remind them that
there are two Shift keys on every keyboard. <g>

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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First off, what's up with all the double posts in this forum? e.g. Th
OpenOffice and "We've already spent the money" posts appear twice i
the order 1,2,1,2. Weird.

About OpenOffice: it's good. But I don't use it because the spreadshee
module just doesn't have some of the date functions that Excel doe
(and which I use but couldn't find an equivalent OpenOffice functio
for).

I agree that macros are an excellent feature of Word. But as with mos
everything else about Word, it has it's bugs and ommissions. Som
things you do just aren't macroable (not talking about OS leve
features, these are basic document/editing functions). Or you record
but it comes out doing different things when you run it.

Sorry, can't remember a specific example - I came across it last week
Could have been a numbering (or denumbering)/formatting function.

Also, the Task Bar doesn't appear to be macroable. It seems to b
completely separate from the normal ToolBar interface (despite the fac
it appears in the toolbars list). I couldn't find a function to sho
the styles pane, which I want open all the time. I don't want the Tas
Pane to close when I close documents or create new ones - it alway
switches back to that useless "getting started" pane. Recording a ne
macro and clicking the Styles and Formatting button ("AA") on th
toolbar results in an empty macro. I know there's a downloadable fi
for it, but this is in a corporation, and you just can't downloa
.exe's without going through all the channels and procedures (whic
just won't be worth it for something that's so minor).

I suppose features were added over the last few versions of Word bu
nobody thought of linking these features into VB objects and methods
 
The double posts seem to be coming from WordForums.com. As for the Styles &
Formatting task pane, if you want a keyboard shortcut, have you tried
approaching this directly? In Tools | Customize, click the Keyboard...
button, select All Commands, then FormattingPane. I guess what you want is
the VBA command to show it, however, and that is evidently doable, as some
of the MVPs (and Steve Hudson) are working on an add-in to display the
desired task pane.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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First off, what's up with all the double posts in this forum? e.g. The
OpenOffice and "We've already spent the money" posts appear twice in
the order 1,2,1,2. Weird.
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I'm not seeing them. Are you sure they are different posts or is your
newsreader picking them up twice?
 
Smartweb said:
You people need to try OpenOffice. Its freeware but it has
all the features you have mentioned so far. Save yourself
some money.
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We, the People, have not only invested in Word (and consider it an
investment well-spent) but we actually find Word appealing, and designate it
as our favorite Word processing application, despite its idiosyncrasies.
Over 90% of global word processing users choose Word as their word
processing application, too. That reflects well not only on Microsoft's
marketing genius, but also on the application's power and breath of
features. The collective wisdom of Word users deserve praise, too.

We can create, weave, cajole, and deploy complex applications using Word
documents, Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations,
and FrontPage web designs. That works for me. And to top that, we have this
wonderful Word New Users peer-to-peer forum from which we can aid, learn,
teach, and pontificate. Obviously, I prefer pontificating. (Grin.)

So take your stinking OpenOffice elsewhere. (Smile.) You're among hard-core
Word fans here. :-)

Uncle Joe
 
Smartweb said:
You people need to try OpenOffice. Its freeware but it has
all the features you have mentioned so far. Save yourself
some money.
Click to expand...

We, the People, not only invested in Word (and consider it an excellent
investment) but we actually find Word appealing, and designate it as our
favorite Word processing application, despite its idiosyncrasies.

Over 90% of global word processing users choose Word as their word
processing application, too. That reflects well not only on Microsoft's
marketing genius, but also on the application's power and breath of
features. The axiomatic wisdom of Word users deserve praise, too.

We can create, weave, cajole, and deploy complex applications using Word
documents, Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations,
and FrontPage web designs. That works for me. And to top that, we have this
wonderful Word New Users peer-to-peer forum from which we can aid, learn,
teach, and pontificate. Obviously, I prefer pontificating. (Grin.)

So take your stinking OpenOffice elsewhere. (Smile.) You're among hard-core
Word fans here. :-)

Uncle Joe
 
My favorite feature of Word is the "exit" button. After I press this
button, I can then open WordPerfect and use a full featured quality word
processor.

Others may disagree.

Doug
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| | > You people need to try OpenOffice. Its freeware but it has
| > all the features you have mentioned so far. Save yourself
| > some money.
|
| We, the People, not only invested in Word (and consider it an
excellent
| investment) but we actually find Word appealing, and designate it as
our
| favorite Word processing application, despite its idiosyncrasies.
|
| Over 90% of global word processing users choose Word as their word
| processing application, too. That reflects well not only on
Microsoft's
| marketing genius, but also on the application's power and breath of
| features. The axiomatic wisdom of Word users deserve praise, too.
|
| We can create, weave, cajole, and deploy complex applications using
Word
| documents, Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint
presentations,
| and FrontPage web designs. That works for me. And to top that, we have
this
| wonderful Word New Users peer-to-peer forum from which we can aid,
learn,
| teach, and pontificate. Obviously, I prefer pontificating. (Grin.)
|
| So take your stinking OpenOffice elsewhere. (Smile.) You're among
hard-core
| Word fans here. :-)
|
| Uncle Joe
|
|
 
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