Microsoft Word is a word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite of computer applications. It is commonly used by technical writers, sometimes in combination with document design applications.
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How to Restart Style-Based Numbering
The most reliable way of creating numbered paragraphs is to use paragraph styles to apply the numbering. This makes all paragraphs with the same numbered style belong to the same numbered list, and numbering is continuous through the whole document.
Aldis, Margaret. Word MVP Site, The (2002). Articles>Word Processing>Information Design>Microsoft Word
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How to Safely Update a Document's Styles from its Template Without Using the Organizer
If you want to update the style definitions of a document with the style definitions in its attached template, you can manually select Tools + Templates and Add-ins, check the box which says 'Automatically update document styles', click OK; and then, because that setting is sticky (and most of the time, undesirable), immediately select Tools + Templates and Add-ins again, deselect the 'Automatically update document styles' box, and click OK.
Rado, Dave, Margaret Aldis, Ian Sharpe and Beth Melton. Word MVP Site, The (2002). Articles>Word Processing>Style Sheets>Microsoft Word
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How to Save Yourself Hours by Using Outline View Properly
Word's Outline View is wonderful for long documents and – used properly – can cut the time taken to write a typical report, proposal, thesis, or dissertation by as much as 50%.
Rado, Dave. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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How to Set Up a Document with Front Matter Numbered Separately
Publishers call the preliminary pages in a book the 'front matter.' They aren’t always numbered separately—some books start with the title page as page 1 and are paginated continuously throughout—but when there is a significant amount of front matter, it’s conventional to number it using lowercase roman numerals.
Barnhill, Suzanne. Word MVP Site, The (2002). Articles>Word Processing>Document Design>Microsoft Word
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How Word differs from WordPerfect
WordPerfect considers a document to be a 'type stream.' If you picture WordPerfect sitting on the end of the printer cable, sending characters one-by-one, and every now and again inserting a COMMAND to change what the printer is doing, you'll get the idea. For example, WP sends the commands for 'Arial' font and 'bold'. It then expects the printer to print every character that way until it tells the printer to do something else. Word, on the other hand, considers a document to be a 'container.' Within this container are more containers and, within them, still more. Into each of these containers, Word inserts objects. The objects can be bits of text, or bits of pictures, or complete files created by other applications.
McGhie, John. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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I Have a "Name" Column Which I Want to Split Into "FirstName", "LastName": How Can I Do It?
Word's sorting capability is fairly rudimentary, especially for those migrating to it from WordPerfect (though it's surprising how many people don't realize Word can sort paragraphs, not just tables – or maybe not so surprising, given where the item is in the menus! The ability to sort on word 2 in field 3 would certainly be very useful (in Excel as well). But there are various things you can do in the meantime.
Rado, Dave. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Databases>Microsoft Word
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I Want to Include the Chapter Number with the Page Number in the Header
If you insist on doing this – and if you do, don't say I didn't warn you! – then the best procedure is as follows.
McGhie, John. Word MVP Site, The (2002). Articles>Word Processing>Document Design>Microsoft Word
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Identifying Additions and Deletions, Part I: Using Compatible Software 
Hart describes the problems and possibilities of Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. Intercom (2001). Articles>Editing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word assists you in creating an embedded index. While Microsoft Word makes it easy to enter individual index entries, much effort is still required to create page ranges and to edit the final index.
Brown, Fred. Allegro Time! (2001). Articles>Indexing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Introduction to Styles in Microsoft Word 
You can increase your efficiency and at the same time, improve the appearance of your Microsoft® Word documents by using styles.
Unwalla, Mike. TechScribe (2004). Articles>Word Processing>Style Sheets>Microsoft Word
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Is there life after "Reveal Codes"?
There is nothing in Word directly comparable to Reveal Codes in WordPerfect. There is a very good reason for this. WordPerfect can be thought of (and I understand is) basically a text stream with codes interspersed (for more on this, see John McGhie's article on Word vs. WordPerfect). This is what you see when you Reveal Codes. You have codes or markers that turn on and off certain formatting characteristics. Word, on the other hand, is a series of nesting containers, characters inside words inside paragraphs inside sections inside documents. The formatting of these is by styles and by pointers at the beginning and end of the document.
Barnhill, Suzanne. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Keeping Your Microsoft Word Documents Healthy
My documents keep crashing in Microsoft Word. What can I do?
Alroy, Faye. Intercom (2004). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Large-Scale HTML Conversion Using a Word Processor
The authors describe a process for converting Microsoft Word documents to HTML.
Hara, Takayoshi and Mayumi Seitou. Intercom (2002). Design>Web Design>Software>Microsoft Word
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Wallia introduces some of the attractive features of Word 2002 and discusses the relative merits of four best-selling books on how to use the software.
Wallia, C.J.S. Intercom (2002). Articles>Technology>Software>Microsoft Word
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Layout Tips for Technical Papers in Microsoft Word 2000
Here are some tips that I have gathered for making technical publications in Microsoft Word 2000. The tips are written for someone with experience using MS Word who needs a boost on the basic techniques for specific layout problems. In developing and documenting these techniques, I have in mind a regular, technical conference paper with columns, equations, and figures. There is an accompanying MS Word document that gives examples of these techniques.
Krumm, John. Microsoft. Articles>Writing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Making Your Mail Merge "Intelligent" by Using IF Fields
Almost any mail merge will work better if you use IF fields, as the frequently used scenarios discussed below attempt to illustrate.
Rado, Dave. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Databases>Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Drops the Office Open Standard Ball
When Microsoft announced a week ago Monday that it had decided to open up its Office 12 XML file formats and had submitted the formats to be considered as a formal open standard by ECMA International, Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's Information Worker Strategy, said, 'The new license that will accompany the Open XML format with the standards organization will go well beyond traditional standards licensing and will be very positive for the vast majority of developers, even open-source developers.' But. The only difference between Microsoft's November 2003 open and royalty-free license for the Office 2003 Reference Schemas and today's Office 2003 license, according to the company, is that 'Microsoft is offering a covenant not to sue for the Office 2003 Reference Schemas.'
Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. eWeek (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Statistics>Microsoft Word
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Some ways to find answers to your Office questions and solutions to your Office problems.
Young, Michael J. mjy Online. Resources>Writing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word 2000 and Readability
A discussion of th Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level formula, as implemented in Microsoft Word.
Nafde, Yamini. Indus (2005). Articles>Writing>Usability>Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word 2004 Document Corruption
If your problem manifests with just one document (or a specific subset of documents), but not with all documents, it is probable that you’re suffering from document corruption. Symptoms may include weird page numbering (drag the thumb down the right vertical margin and watch the page number counter – it will go crazy when you pass a corruption) infinite repagination, incorrect document layout and formatting, unreadable characters on the screen, hangs or crashes when you load or view a particular file. Such corruption is generally carried in the very last paragraph mark in a document, which is the marker for a hidden container in which Word stores all document properties including formatting information.
McGhie, John and Beth Rosengard. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word Accessibility Techniques
Most people use word processors incorrectly. Rather than use true headings, they simply enlarge the font size and make it bold. If you do this, the document has no real structure that can be discerned by a screen reader. The correct way to provide structure within Word documents is to use Word styles.
WebAIM (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Accessibility>Microsoft Word
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Below are some tips for formatting tables or reports. Your formatting should be consistent throughout your document.
Leigh, Heather. Crazy for Words (2007). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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Numbering Headings in Microsoft Word: It Doesn't Have to Drive You Crazy
If you’re a longtime user of Microsoft Word, you’ve noticed that Word’s functionality has changed in countless little ways over the years. You’ll probably agree that most of the changes have been beneficial and have made our jobs easier. Unfortunately, some changes have been for the worse.
Block, Barbara M. Intercom (2003). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
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The home of the Office Users Group, built to provide some very unique help for users of the Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. We've built the site to be independent and a constant source of up-to-date information and assistance.
OfficeUsers.org (2007). Resources>Software>Word Processing>Microsoft Word
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Opening Up to OpenOffice: Finding an Alternative to Microsoft Word 
When OpenOffice reached version 1.0 in May 2002, I did my journalistic duty and had a look. It wasn't what I expected. Aside from a few minor disappointments, I liked what I saw. I quickly became convinced that OpenOffice.org's Writer (OOo Writer) is a practical alternative to MS Word. Thirteen months of use has only cemented that impression. Four minor releases have been made since I started using OpenOffice.org, and, with each one, the program has become quicker and more stable.
Byfield, Bruce. TECHWR-L (2003). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
