Fields in Footnotes Won't Update Automatically

Fields can be very helpful for including dynamic information in your documents, such as cross-references. It can be frustrating, though, if those fields don't update when you think they should. This tip examines this behavior.

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(Thanks to Patrick Sedgwick, Donna Reece, Lene Fredborg, and Audrey Thompson for contributing to this tip.)

Viewing Multiple Pages

If you have a large monitor, you can view more than one page at a time in Word. This is very handy when you want to understand how your text looks over several pages.

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Working on Medical Documents in MS Word?

Checking medical text is time-consuming and difficult. Even tiny mistakes can take a toll on credibility and make readers question the underlying science. So when quality matters, and time is limited, here are six ways to speed up how you edit regulatory submissions, grant applications, and journal articles. Click to read it now.

Moving Object Anchors

When you insert an object into your document, it is anchored to a paragraph. If you want to change the paragraph to which the object is anchored, you can do so by using the technique in this tip.

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Getting a Warning for Markup

Many people, when collaborating on a document with others, use the Track Changes feature to show the effects of their editing. When printing your document, you may not want Word to include these changes in the printout. You can instruct the program to warn you if you try to print and there are any tracked changes or comments in the document.

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Adding a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar

One of the easiest ways to quickly access a macro is to assign it to the Quick Access toolbar. Here's how you can make the assignment.

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Spell Checking when Closing Documents

When you close a document, you might want to do one final check of the spelling, just to make sure that you didn't miss anything. Using one of Word's automatic macros (AutoClose) you can make sure that the final spelling check is done.

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Updating Previously Pasted Pictures

I often paste WMFs exported from AutoCAD into a Word document. Then I have to crop, resize, and set the Wrap Text option to 'Square' to properly position the image. Many times, I need to go back and edit the AutoCAD drawing and update the exported WMF. To replace the previous version in Word involves starting all over, which can be very frustrating and time-consuming. Is there a way to directly overwrite the old WMF image with the new, without all of the repetitive steps?
—Fred Hart (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)