Suppressing Endnotes

Endnotes are a beneficial necessity for some documents. If you want to print a copy of the document without endnotes, though, you may wonder how to get the clean copy you desire.

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(Thanks to Jano Witman for contributing to this tip.)

Printing a Draft of a Document

Need to print a copy of a document but you don't care if it looks as "pretty" as you want the final printout to look? You need to print a draft copy, as described in this tip.

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Fantastic Fields!

At last count Word provides 75 dynamic field codes you can use to add everything from page numbers to hyperlinks to your documents. Discover the ins and outs of the vast majority of Word's powerful field codes.

Controlling Names of Backup Files

Want to control the name and location of your document backup? Here are some ideas that may help.

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Setting Consistent Column Widths in Multiple Tables

Tables are great for organizing and presenting information in a document. If you have a document containing multiple tables, you may be interested in making sure that the widths of columns in those tables are consistent.

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Changing Lots of Title Properties

I have several hundred documents in which I need to change the title property. (This is the title property maintained with the other document properties.) Is there a way to easily make this change in such a large number of documents?
—Rachel Gillis (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)