Finding Missing Spaces before Numbers

If you want to insert a space between letters and digits in your document, you have a couple of tasks to perform. First, you need to find the combination and then you need to make the insertion. This tip shows how easy this is to do using Find and Replace.

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(Thanks to Patrick Sedgwick, Ron Solecki, Jake Roudebush, David Cohen, Jacques Raubenheimer, Harold Druss, Joe Danowsky, and Falk Schneider for contributing to this tip.)

Understanding At Least Line Spacing

Line spacing is used to control how close lines are to each other within a paragraph. Word allows you to specify several types of line spacing. Here's an explanation of a way you can set the minimum line spacing for a paragraph.

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How Much Time Do You Spend Finalizing Microsoft Word Documents?

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Collecting Highlighted Text Selections

Got a document with text passages marked with the highlighter tool? You can collect all those highlighted selections and move them to a new document by applying the techniques in this tip.

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Inserting Endnotes

Endnotes appear at either the end of a section or the end of an entire document. It is just as easy to insert an endnote into a document as it is to insert footnotes.

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Paragraph Formatting Shortcuts

Paragraphs are one of the elemental building blocks in a Word document. Formatting those paragraphs is easy to do if you commit just a few shortcuts to memory.

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Copying and Pasting Field Codes

Want to copy a field code and paste it in some other Windows program? This can be trickier than it sounds. Here's the lowdown on why this is, and a macro you can use to make copying and pasting field codes easier.

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Including Paragraph Numbers in an Index

I have a document in which each paragraph is automatically numbered using custom styles that I applied to the paragraphs. Is it possible to create an index in which each entry lists both the page number and the paragraph number?
—Diana Burke (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)