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Command Hunt
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This is a nifty way to change the document's font throughout the entire document.
What is the "Change Document Font" button in the KE Tools group on the Home tab?
100
One of the first things you can try if the full Ribbon or Quick Access toolbar seem to be missing?
What is "Right-click on any Ribbon tab and de-select 'Minimize Ribbon'?
100
When you manually delete a section break, you'll end up losing the section formatting in which section of the document.
What is the section that exists ABOVE the deleted section break?
100
Press this key combination to select all text in the document.
What is Control-A?
100
The DocID button resides on this Ribbon tab.
What is the Forms Assistant tab?
200
Do this and you'll never have to type another notary block from scratch again?
What is "Create a Building Block"?
200
Caution! If you re-open the 'Document Input Form' while editing a letter, memo or fax cover sheet, you may wind up doing this to your document.
What is "overwrite any direct edits you've made to the document's 'form fields' or 'content controls'?
200
In order to physically purge Word's tracked changes from a document, you MUST use one of these two features.
What is "Accept Changes" or "Reject Changes"?
200
This keystroke closes the current Word document.
What is Control-W or Control-F4?
200
Word's Paste Special feature is hiding out here.
What is the Paste menu on the Home tab?
300
The steps to follow when you want to quickly replace the old iCreate paragraph marks in your document with Payne Style Separators.
What is 1. Show the Numbering Assistant tab. 2. Display the "Style Separator" menu 3. Choose "Replace Hidden Paragraph Marks with Style Separators"
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This is one of two very likely reasons why the Customize Numbering button on the Numbering Assistant tab shows as unavailable for use (ie., grayed out).
What is "the Cursor is not resting in a Heading Style" or "the Cursor is not resting before the Style Separator."
300
After doing this, it's frequently the reason why automatic paragraph numbering doesn't behave reliably or as expected.
What is changing the paragraph's number position or text position improperly?
300
Move to the document's table of contents and press this key to update or re-generate it?
What is F9?
300
Need to add a copyright symbol in your document? Go here.
What is Insert tab | Symbols menu?
400
Do this to change the alignment in your numbering scheme from left to fully justified without having to change all nine Heading styles individually.
What is 1. Display the Numbering Assistant tab. 2. Click the Numbering Assistant button. 3. Select the scheme you wish to modify, if necessary. 4. Select "Apply Full Justification" in the Options area. 5. Click Apply.
400
This is a super great way to check for any direct formatting at the cursor position.
What is "Press [Shift-F1] and show the Reveal Formatting task pane and select the "Distinguish Style Source" checkbox?
400
It's the reason why pressing [Control-S] to save your document modifications isn't a good idea.
What is "because the document's changes are saved to the local workstation only (and not the DMS) until the document is closed."
400
This keystrokes changes the current paragraph to the Normal style.
What is Control-Shift-N?
400
You'll need to complete these steps to find the feature that centers the text on your cover page vertically between the top and bottom margins of the document.
What is 1. go to Page Layout tab 2. Display the dialog box launcher in the Page Setup group
500
This is a great way to automatically carry any non-Heading styles (e.g., Schedule Headings) into your Table of Contents.
What is "change the Outline Level attribute of the desired styles from 'Body Text' to the desired TOC level?
500
You'll need to complete these steps when your client calls to report that he/she cannot open the .DOCX file you accidentally sent them.
What is 1. Re-open the .DOCX file 2. Display the Office Button and choose Save As | Word 97-2003 document. 3. Select 'New Document" in the DMS Save Options dialog box. 4. Complete the Document Profile.
500
Documents that have been saved with a .DOCX extension cannot be opened by earlier versions of Word unless this free software has been installed on the computer?
What is "Compatibility Pak"
500
This keystroke converts the selected text to Title Case, Uppercase and Lowercase
What is Shift-F3?
500
Go here to view the Firm's pre-defined collection of signature blocks.
What is Insert tab | Quick Parts gallery?