Final Days: Mastering Styles and Templates Course

Just a quick reminder that the Mastering Styles and Templates course is closing to new students this Wednesday, December 17. If you’ve been thinking about joining, this is your last chance for a long time.

The course includes over 6 hours of video instruction, lifetime access to all downloaded materials, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Don’t let another year go by fighting with Word formatting.

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—Allen

WordTips (ribbon) for 13 December 2025

Adjusting Location of a Heading Code in a TOC

Word makes it easy to add a table of contents to your documents. If you want the formatting of the TOC entries to be different from what is in your document headings, you'll need a full understanding of how TOC entries and headings relate to each other, including the use of styles.

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(Thanks to Dave Sheppard, Michael Avidan (MVP), Jean Allard, and Peter Goucher for contributing to this tip.)

Implementing a Dynamic Document Control Table

Accurately and repeatedly referencing information within a document is a common task that needs to be done. One way to perform this task reliably is through the use of fields; this tip explains how.

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Use Tables Effectively

Microsoft Word is wonderful at presenting data clearly and easily. Creating a table is one of the ways you can present your data. Creating tables is easy, but using them effectively can be tricky. WordTips: Terrific Tables allows you to get the most from your tables.

Selecting a Field

Do you need to select a field? It is as simple as selecting a single character, as this tip explains.

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Saving Documents as Read-Only by Default

When you save your documents, you can specify that they be saved in a "read-only" format so that they cannot be changed as easily. This tip explains how you can modify the Save As command so that documents are saved as read-only by default.

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WordTips YouTube Channel

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New video: Printing Only Selected Pages
I often need to print only select pages of a document, rather than the whole thing. Word makes it easy to be judicious in what you print. In this Quick Tip I show you how to print just those pages that you need.

New video: Printing a Document Draft
Do you 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? If so, you need to print a draft copy, as described in this Quick Tip.

Help Wanted

This section is for those having problems making Word behave. If Word is giving you fits, feel free to submit your own Help Wanted question.

If you have a solution for the problems below, click the link after the problem to send us your answer. (All responses become the sole property of Sharon Parq Associates, Inc., and can be used in any way deemed appropriate.) If your response is used in a future issue, you will be credited for your contribution to the answer.

Creating a Reviewer Overview Report

When our team is working on documents, we do so with Track Changes turned on. As we near the end of each project, it would be helpful to generate a report that shows the names of reviewers for a document along with the number of changes and comments made by each reviewer. It would be very helpful if the report could show the date of the first and last edit or comment made by each reviewer. Is such a report available within Word?
—Giselle Mayfield (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)

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