How to trick Word into justifying a single itsy bitsy word (so that the word's letters spread evenly from one margin to the other). Here's how you do it:

1. Press Ctrl+J (to activate justified text).
2. Type the word you want to justify, inserting a space after each character. But DO NOT type a space after the last character.
3. With the insertion point at the end of the word, press Shift + Enter.

Again-isn't that amazing? Word spreads the word (Get it? "Spreads the word"? Isn't this whole tip falling together for you now?) from one margin to another. This technique is great for creating titles and report covers--and it also works within a text frame.

Now about justifying a single letter, hmm, there's something to think about.

To keep words from breaking apart at the end of a line, you need to put a hard space--or nonbreaking space--instead of a regular space between them. And to type a nonbreaking space, you press Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar.

Do you sometimes need to use leaders? Leaders are those little dots leading up to some text. Like this:

...............Text Leaders.

To set up leaders, choose Format, Tabs. When the dialog box opens, enter the Tab Stop Position you want to use (in inches). That will be the length of your leader. Now look under Leader. Select the radio button associated with the type of leader you want (they don't have to always be little dots) and then click Set. Now click OK to record your selection and close the dialog box.

Now when you use the Tab key, the tab location you entered will display the leader.

To move through a Word document one paragraph at a time, hold down the Control key while pressing the up and down arrow keys.

You're an organized person. Oh, let's not sugarcoat things ... you're anal. So you're never happier than when you've organized your thoughts into a terse, multilevel outline. Except, of course, when you decide that an idea you have at one level should be positioned at another higher or lower level. That's enough to throw your little Felix Unger world into a sinus-honking tailspin.

There is no need, really--because Word makes promoting and demoting outline text easy.

To promote a paragraph (that is, to raise it to the next-highest outline level):

1. Select the paragraph (note that you can select a single paragraph by simply clicking anywhere in it).
2. Press Alt + Shift + left arrow.

To demote a paragraph:

1. Select the paragraph.
2. Press Alt + Shift + right arrow.

Now that wasn't so hard; put away your hanky.

Say you're preparing a report that's so important--so absolutely earth-shattering--that the gods who rule over the budgets where you work have actually consented to pay to have the report BOUND. Which means that you have to include a little more space in the left margin (or in the left and right margins, if you're printing on both sides of each page) to accommodate the binding.

Now, you COULD just increase your margin size(s), but that solution is risky because, in the course of preparing the document, you could forget what the extra margin is for and perhaps "adjust" it away. A better idea would be to add a "gutter" to your document, which is a kind of special and very visible space designed especially for your binder.

1. Choose File + Page Setup.
2. IF YOU'RE PRINTING ON BOTH SIDES OF EACH PAGE, select Mirror Margins; otherwise, skip this step.
3. Set Gutter Size to a width that accommodates your binding. For example, if you're going to use a three-ring binder, set the gutter size to .5 inch; for wire or plastic comb binding, setting it to .375 inch is probably fine.
4. Click OK.

A gray strip appears outside the appropriate margin of each page. Your margin measurements are calculated IN ADDITION to the gutter. So, if you have a .5-inch gutter and a 1-inch margin, your text begins 1.5 inches from the left edge of the page.

Hey, italics are great for emphasis--if used sparingly. But sometimes, well, people get a little out of hand, putting just about everything in italics.

Wouldn't it be nice, then, if you could replace all the italics in a document with regular text, in one fell swoop? Well, you can--using none other than Word's standard Find and Replace function. Here's how:

1. Position your cursor at the very beginning of your italics-littered document.
2. Choose Edit + Replace from the menu (or press Ctrl+H).
3. Click in the Find What box and then press Ctrl+I (for "italic"); the words "Format: Italic" appear under the box.
4. Click in the Replace With box and press Ctrl+I (twice). The words "Format: Not Italic" appear under the box.
5. To eliminate ALL the italic text in the document, click Replace All. To eliminate selected italic text, click Find Next until Word selects the text you want to change; then click Replace to change it.
6. When you're finished, click Close.

As you've probably guessed, you can use this same technique to eliminate or change other attributes in your document.

In the above "removing italics" tip, I gave you kind of a "smarty-pants" way to replace attributes in a document--"smarty-pants" because it requires you to actually remember the keystroke shortcuts for the attributes you want to find and replace (Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+B ... no big whoop as that funny he/she says in SNL).

Well, now I offer the "dunce-pants" method. Suppose you want to replace all the bold text in your document with, say, double-underlined text--and you can't remember the keystroke shortcuts for bold or double-underline. Word gives you an easy way to replace formatting attributes, even if you can't remember necessary keystrokes:

1. Position your cursor at the very beginning of your document.
2. Choose Edit + Replace from the menu (or press Ctrl+H).
3. Click in the Find What box.
4. Click More and then click Format. From the drop-down list, click Font.
5. In the Font dialog box, under Font Style, select the attribute you want to replace (in our example, you'd select Bold); then click OK.
6. Click in the Replace With box and then click Format and then Font.
7. In the Font dialog box, select the attribute you want use instead (in our example, you'd select Double from the Underline drop-down list); then click OK.
8. To replace all the specified formatting, click Replace All. To change selected formatting, click Find Next until Word selects the text you want to change, and then click Replace to change it.
9. When you're finished, click Close.

1. Highlight the paragraph that you want to paste
2. Press Ctrl+C
3. Right-click the Desktop and click Paste Shortcut.

The "scrap" on the Desktop is now a piece of data or text that you can insert into another document. If you click it, Windows invokes the application that created it, and the scrap is displayed in the application's window.

If you find yourself consistently manipulating entire paragraphs at a time, perhaps there's a quicker way to cut and paste your words in Word. Position the cursor [I-bar] anywhere in the paragraph and hold down ALT+SHIFT. Now, use the Up and Down arrow keys to move that block of text around within the document. Good news: the paragraph will never stop in the middle of another paragraph. NOTE: hitting the Left and Right arrow keys will change the style of the selected text.

If you begin selecting in the middle of a word and drag to include part of a second word, Word selects both words and even the spaces after them. To turn off automatic word selection, choose Tools, Options and select the Edit tab. Then under Editing Options, uncheck the "Automatic Word Selection" box. Now you can select exactly what you want.

If you know the key combination to move the insertion point, you can select text by using that key combination while holding down the Shift key. For example, Ctrl + Right Arrow moves the insertion point to the next word, and Ctr l+ Shift + Right Arrow selects the text from the insertion point to the beginning of the next word. The following list describes the ways to select text or graphics using the keyboard.

• To select one character to the right, press Shift+right-arrow key.
• To select on character to the left, press Shift+left-arrow key.
• To select to the end of a word, press Ctrl+Shift+right-arrow key.
• To select to the beginning of a word, press Ctrl+Shift+left-arrow key.
• To select to the end of a line, press Shift+End.
• To select to the beginning of a line, press Shift+Home.
• To select one line down, press Shift+down-arrow key.
  
• To select one line up, press Shift+up-arrow key.
• To select to the end of a paragraph, press Ctrl+Shift+down-arrow key.
• To select to the beginning of a paragraph, press Ctrl+Shift+up-arrow key.
• To select one screen down, press Shift+Page Down.
  
• To select one screen up, press Shift+Page Up.
• To select to the end of a document, press Ctrl+Shift+End.
• To select to the beginning of a document, press Ctrl+Shift+Home.
• To select the entire document, press Ctrl+A or Ctrl+5 (on the numeric keypad).

Before performing many tasks in Word, you must select the text you want to work with. Selected text appears highlighted on your screen.

• To select a word, double-click on the word.

• To select a paragraph, click inside the paragraph three times.

• To select any amount of text, position the mouse over the first word you want to select and drag the mouse over the text you want to select.

Oh, we all know that the universal shortcut for selecting all the text and graphics in a document is Ctrl+A. What? You didn't know that? Well, yeah. That's the story. You know you could be more selective in your selection? Sure. At least, in Microsoft Word.

Tap your F8 key the first time to turn on this feature; move your cursor right or left to select a single character. Now, press F8 a second time to select the entire word. Third time's the charm; F8 tap number three will select the sentence. Four F8 punches knocks out the paragraph. And if you want the whole enchilada... er, document... hit F8 five times. Reverse the process by keeping the SHIFT key depressed. Or forget it; just tell the story of how you used to get beat up in grade school).

Splitting the screen allows you to view two parts of your document in one window. Here's how:

1. Place the mouse cursor on the little gray thing located just above the up-arrow button on the vertical scroll bar (on the upper-right side of your document).

2. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the pointer down.

3. About halfway down, release the mouse button.

1. Go to Table, Insert, Table, Number of columns, Number of rows, AutoFit to window, Click ok.
2. Click table, click cross-arrow (highlights entire table).
3. Go to Table, Table Properties:
   a. Row Tab, Specify height.
   b. Table Tab, Borders and Shading, and pick a border.
4. Go to Fomat, Text Direction, Click one of the directions, OK.
5. Go to Format Bar, choose Center orientation and enter your text.