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WordTips (ribbon) for 11 October 2025

Including a Leading Zero in Numbered Lists

Word allows you to easily apply numbered lists to your paragraphs. You may decide that you want the numbers in the list to have a leading zero. This tip shows how easy it is to achieve this goal.

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(Thanks to Dave Sheppard, Michael Avidan (MVP), Kate Hobbs, and Michael Kish for contributing to this tip.)

Resizing Your Table

Need to make your table a different size? It's easy to do, using the same general technique you use when resizing a graphic. This tip walks you through the steps to do the resizing.

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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.

Printing in White

Word allows you to print in every color of the rainbow, but not in white. (Bad comparison; white is not a color of the rainbow.) Here's why you can't print in white and what you can do if you really do need to print in white.

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Occurrences of a Text String within a Document

You may have a need to find out how many times a certain text string occurs within a document. You can find out manually using the Find and Replace features of Word, but that won't work in a macro. The technique in this tip will work, however.

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(Thanks to Ken Endacott for contributing to this tip.)

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: 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 Quick Tip.

New video: Adjust a Paragraph's Indent FAST!
When formatting your document, you often have a need to indent paragraphs. If you later want to decrease the indent used on some paragraphs, you can use the shortcuts provided in this 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.

Copied Text Prints in Gray

I have some information I wrote in my blog. In my browser, I copied the information to the Clipboard, and then pasted it into a blank Word document. When I then printed the document, the print was grey, fainter than I prefer. Content I added to the Word document also printed in the same grey. What might have caused this and how can I fix it, both for new/added content and for what is already written?
—Charles Molway (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)

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