Want to get rid of your headers and footers?

I was going to tell you about using the Remove Header and Remove Footer commands.

Then I was going to tell you about linked sections and unlinked sections--and that if some of your headers or footers were still sticking around, you might have unlinked sections.

But there's a much faster way...

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Introduction A common question that comes up is about the difference between multilevel lists and list styles. Stuart discussed these two list types in his post The Many Levels of Lists . What I hope to do in this blog post is an in-depth look at the similarities and differences between these two concepts. Quick Overview An easy way to look at this would be to think of list styles as an improved version of multilevel lists, since both are ways to define all nine levels of a list in one go. So, why...

If you're going to use Word to create your business cards, your next best bet is to start with a template from Office.com. The business card shown here is a template on Office.com. With a template, you can include graphics on your business card--for example, your company logo. Just be sure to note what size card the template uses.

If you want to make a business card that has text only, you can follow these steps in Word...

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In this video, I'll show you a quick way to change page margins in Word 2010. I'll also demonstrate a little-known feature in Word for clearly revealing exactly where the text boundaries are in your document. No more ambiguity!

You can find more information about changing page margins at Office.com.

-- Ron Owens

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Why does formatting sometimes get messed up when you cut and paste text? And what is that thing that appears at the end of the last sentence every time you paste-like a fly returning to honey.

That thing--the Paste Options button--is your friend, a worker bee and not a fly whose only job is to follow your formatting instructions. Learning how it works keeps you from wasting time manually formatting pasted text.

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Today's post about track changes in Word is contributed by Louis Broome, a manager and writer for Office.com.

To turn Track Changes off, on the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes button (the paper & pencil with the healthy orange glow, pictured below). Here's the relevant piece of Word real estate:

 

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Over the last couple of months, we've posted about many of the exciting new features of Word 2010 – Co-authoring , the new Find experience , and the Word Web App . This week, at SharePoint Conference 2009, we announced one more (and one that I'm especially excited about): Word Automation Services . In the post on framing the Word 2010 release , one of the pillars described is "Word Power in New Contexts". Word Automation Services is a big part of that pillar, and represents our desire to ensure that...

Now that Word 2007 is out in the wild with a brand new user interface , I figured it would be good to provide a quick overview of Word's new UI—specifically the "Ribbon—and point you at some very cool tools to help you use the new UI. The Ribbon While there is a whole lot more to Word 2007's new UI, the first thing you will notice is that all of Word's menus and toolbars have been replaced with a single container that organizes Word's full feature set into a series of tabs. This container is known...

You can add page numbers that show the chapter number and the page number, such as 1-1 or 1:1, or you can add a header that includes "Chapter n" and the page number.

Let's look at how to do each option.

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It's easy to put an elegant border around your page--but then the printer lops it off.

Why?

Each printer has its own minimum margin setting, and if you put any text or borders outside that margin setting, your page won't print correctly.

Word, on the other hand, will let you set your margins to 0.

How do you find out your printer's printable area--before you print? A colleague showed me a good trick...

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