Archive for March, 2004
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
Have you ever wished you had a way to move quickly from one footnote to the next in Word? How about from one edit to the next? One heading to the next? If so, you need to know about Word's Object Browser, which is poorly documented but richly useful. Share
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
As a book editor, I often want to see the pages of a book I'm working on as "two up"--that is, two pages at a time, side by side on my screen. This is easily done in Print Preview, of course: Share
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
In this final installment of how to set up book pages for publishing, we look at section breaks in Microsoft Word. Section breaks let you do a number of things. The most important ones for our purposes are: Share
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
After you've set up the pages of your book (as explained in the last newsletter), you'll need to set up headers and footers. Using Microsoft Word, you might think you'd find headers and footers under the Insert menu. Not so; they're under View. Why? Because your document *already* includes headers ...
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