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WordTips (ribbon) for 22 February 2025

Changing Hyperlink Display Text

A hyperlink consists, at a minimum, of display text and a target address. Word provides multiple ways you can make changes to the display text, as discussed in this tip.

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(Thanks to Eric Toll, Tomek Dluzniewski, and John Carpenter for contributing to this tip.)

How Word Handles Abbreviations

Abbreviations appear all over the place in our society. If you want to understand how Word recognizes them (which it has to do for some AutoCorrect features), then you'll want to read this tip.

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Discover the Power of Styles

The real power behind formatting documents in Word is wielded through styles. Discover how to use styles and you can format documents faster, easier, and more consistently than ever before. Here's the way to unlock the secret.

Converting Individual Endnotes and Footnotes

Word makes it easy to convert all your footnotes to endnotes and vice versa. You may want to only convert a couple of them, and the key to doing this is discussed in this tip.

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Getting User Input in a Dialog Box

Want to grab some interactive input from a user in your macro? The best way to do that is with the InputBox function, described in this tip.

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WordTips YouTube Channel

Do you like to learn visually? Make sure you check out the WordTips YouTube channel. New videos are added weekly. (I typically try to add them on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)

New video: Vertical Alignment of Sections
Using one of the page setup options in Word, you can specify that the paragraphs within the section be vertically aligned a certain way on the page. This Quick Tip demonstrates how you can set up this type of formatting.

New video: Deleting All Footnotes
Are you tired of all those footnotes hanging on the bottom of each page in your document? You can get rid of them in one step, as described in this Quick Tip.

Help Wanted

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Increasing Font Size in the Editor Task Pane

When I want to do a spell-check, I press F7 and Word displays the Editor task pane. I then click on the Spelling button and I can step through supposed spelling errors. However, the text shown in the Editor task pane is too small for those with increasingly aged eyes. Is there a way to adjust the text size? I don't need it enlarged everywhere in my system, just in the Editor task pane.
—Chris Leslie (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)

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