Putting Template Macros in a Document

You can easily store your macros in a template. If you create a document based on the template and then the document is given to someone else, chances are good that the macros won't be available any longer. This tip examines why this occurs and what you can do about it.

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(Thanks to Falk Schneider, Ron Solecki, David Gray, and Georg Lindic for contributing to this tip.)

Creating a Table Using the Keyboard

Want to easily add a table to your document simply by typing a few keystrokes? Here's how you can do it in one easy step.

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Strange Tab Settings in Bulleted Items

Getting bulleted lists to look just right can be challenging, particularly if you are using the Bullet tool on the Home tab of the ribbon. Here's a quick discussion about why this is and what you can do about it.

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Getting Rid of Variant Styles

If you use the Styles task pane, you may have noticed that it can list more than just styles. It also lists variants of styles, and those variants can really clutter up what you see in the task pane. Here's why those variants appear and what you can do to get rid of them.

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Embedding Linked Documents

Word allows you to link one document to another document rather easily. If you later want to grab the contents of a linked document and put those contents in the current document, how you do it depends on how the linking was done in the first place.

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Expanding Width of All Tables

If you have a lot of tables in your documents, you might want to change the width of all of them. You can take forever doing it manually, or you can apply the simple macro in this tip to make quick work of the task.

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Using Standard Symbols for Numbered Lists

For footnotes, one numbering choice is to use standard symbols, such as an asterisk, dagger, double dagger, and section mark, then doubling each one. However, that's not one of the choices for lists. Is there a way to also use that same symbol system for a numbered list?
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