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Symbols and Special Characters in Microsoft Word

Your average keyboard has enough letters, numbers and punctuation marks for all of your day-to-day...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Handy Shortcuts You Need to Know

The shortcuts in Microsoft Word are a great way of boosting efficiency while writing. They...

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Microsoft Word Tips: How to Use Text Wrapping

From corporate logos in press releases to scientific diagrams in essays, there are many reasons...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Adding an Index

Indexes (or ‘indices’ if you’re a Latin plural lover) are very useful for finding key...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Customising the Spellchecker

You should always have your work proofread to make sure it is error free. Nevertheless,...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Using Columns

In most documents, text is formatted in paragraphs that spread across the page. But this...

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Microsoft Word Tips: In Depth on Indentation

Many people use ‘Tab’ to indent something in Microsoft Word, but this can cause issues...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Alignment and Text Boxes

A well-written essay is a good thing. But a perfect essay needs more than just...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Paragraph Spacing

To add a space between paragraphs, you can hit return twice. But a better option...

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Microsoft Word: Using the Compare Function

Unless you’re a Microsoft Word expert, you may not have come across the ‘compare’ function....

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Microsoft Word Tips: How to Add Chapter Headers

Writing a longer essay or dissertation that is broken up into several sections? In that...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Find and Replace

Writing a longer document? Need to find something so you can edit it? Then you...

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