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Elements like headers and footers reside within sections, and from section to section they can be changed.  The following illustration shows the footer of page 30 and the header of page 31. The following illustration shows the status bar for page 30.  Notice that page...

If this is the look you're going for, just create separate sections for where you want the table to span the two columns.   From the Page Layout tab, click on Break where you want the tables. Select Continuous from the Section Break group.   Now set the new...

The main reason for AutoCorrect is to fix typos like teh when you meant to type the. To use the built-in entries, you just type along as usual. Word will make changes when it thinks they’re needed. You can see a list of the current auto corrections by scrolling in the...

Changing the case of text in Word is quite easy.  Highlight the text you want converted and then click on the change case icon in the Font section of the Home tab. Select UPPERCASE from the drop-down menu and your text will be converted. facebooklinkedin

You can just select all of the contents of the table by clicking on the table selector at the top left.   Then just press the delete key.   Delete will get rid of the contents while leaving the table structure. Backspace will get rid of the contents and table...

If you have defined styles, you can change the font in the style definition.  But if you haven't used styles try the following. If you’ve used a certain font you can do an advanced search and replace. In the following document, most of the text is Calibri 11 pts. Some...

The name of the style is Line Numbers.  To change the color (or any other attribute) of the style, click on the Style Panes launcher on the Home tab.  Alternately, you can press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S. The styles pane will open.  If all of the styles are not showing, click...

Try clicking on Table Properties and going to the Row tab.  De-select the option to let rows break across pages.   If that doesn't make the table fit, you can also select some of the text and set line spacing to slightly less than 1 line.  Start with .98 or .97...

On the Developer tab, click on Visual Basic.   When the Visual Basic window opens, click on Insert > Module. When the new module appears, copy and past the following code into the area on the right (under General): Sub ApplyHyperlinkStyleToAllLinksInDoc() For...

You can certainly do this without WordArt.  First draw a text box (or choose Simple Text box and then delete the text).   After you add the text box, right click and choose Format Shape.   On the Fill and Line Color tabs, set to No fill and No line.  ...