arrows – Wingdings 3 font
brighten image &ndash see lighten image
circled numbers – Wingdings 2 font
black numbers on white background
0 – i
1 – j – j
2 – k – k
3 – l
4 – m
5 – n
6 – o
7 – p
8 – q
9 – r
10 – s
white numbers on black background
0 – t
1 – u
2 – v
3 – w
4 – x
5 – y
6 – z
dark image, brighten &ndash see lighten image
font, set default – format, font
Full Menus, show (Always On)
Tools, Customize, Check “Always show full menus”
“Getting Started” Task Pane, How to remove – Tools, Options, View, Uncheck Startup Task Pane
HTML, clean up Word's
Save as filtered. This will remove Office tags. Cleans up a lot right there.
3rd party utilities:
Textism – upload a file at their site. Freebie only works with 20K or less
Tidy – Open source, written in C – not updated since 2004
For instance:
tidy –f errs.txt –m index.html
which runs tidy on the file "index.html" updating it in place and writing the error messages to the file "errs.txt".
To get a list of available options use:
tidy -help
image, lighten &ndash see lighten image
lighten image – select image → Picture Format tab → Corrections → Brightness/Contrast
numbers with circles around them – see circled numbers
picture in background – View Header/Footer. Insert picture. Right click on picture, Format Picture. Click middle tab that says “Layout”. Click “Behind Text”. Once you leave the Header/Footer view, the picture will be washed out and in the background.
Table of contents – Format, Frames, Table of Contents in Frame. This will add a
frame to the left. So, if you already have a frame with a TOC which you
need to update, delete that frame first (Format, Frames, Delete Frame) and then
re–create it.
The automatically generated frame will be saved as a file with the name of the
first 8 letters of the first word in the document. So it’s usually best
to rename it.
tilde – Shift+Control+~, n – only works with "n,N,o,O,a,A" (Umlauts, circumflex, grave, etc. here)
Screentips Shortcut Keys (the those little yellow boxes that pop up showing the shortcut key when you hover over certain functions, this is how to turn it on) – Tools, Customize, Check Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips
Umlaut – Shift+Control+:, o (or whatever) – (tilde, circumflex, grave, etc. here)
unordered lists, save in proper HTML - you can't. Instead, go to HTMLEditor.in
version, which version opens when you double click – if you have 2 versions of Word installed – say 2003 and 2007 – you might want to default to having all documents open with 2003 instead of 2007. You’d think you’d be able to determine that in Windows Explorer by file suffix. But that just doesn’t seem to work. So we need open expert