Tips and hints

Over the years, I have come across useful computer shortcuts and tips to help me in my work. Some of them are included below and I will keep adding more as I think of them.

Using Microsoft® Word

• Handy Word shortcuts
• Wrangling with your styles
• Copying and pasting formatting
• Using macros to clean up manuscripts
• Changing the language used for spellchecking
• Taking the 'hyph' out of hyphens
• Keeping your numbers and units stuck together
• Standardising your styles across documents
• Getting back to where you were
• Removing autoformatted hyperlinks
• Find and replace 'special' characters using wildcards
• Zoom in, zoom out!

Useful software

• Time billing software
• Stop working and down tools!
• Back it up!
• Faxing software

Other

• Mac or Windows?

If you have any questions/suggestions, or if something is not clear, please don't hesitate to .

Last updated: Wednesday 7 September, 2005
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