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Word Tips
Extended selection with Shift key
Selecting in Word or other applications can be difficult. When the Shift key
is held down, the selection is extended from the beginning or end of the selection.
Hold Shift down while tapping the arrow keys will select a character or line
at a time. This can be used with the scroll bar as well to select several pages.
Units of Measure for Type
Point (typography) - The point is the standard unit for measuring font
size and leading and other minute items on a printed page.
Twelve points make up a pica, there are 72 points in an or 6 picas in an inch,
a point is 1/12 of a pica.
Page Breaks and Pagination
When you fill a page with text or graphics, Microsoft Word inserts an
automatic page break and starts a new page. To force a page break at a specific
location, you can insert a manual page break. For example, you can force a page
break to ensure that a chapter title always starts on a new page.
If you work on documents of more than several pages in length, and you insert manual page breaks, you might have to frequently rebreak pages as you edit the document. Instead, you might want to set pagination options to control where Word positions automatic page breaks. For example, you can prevent a page break from occurring within a paragraph or within a table row. Or ensure that a page break doesn’t fall between two paragraphs, such as a heading and the following paragraph.
Sections and Section Breaks
You can use sections to vary the layout of a document
within a page or between pages.
Column Break
Force the start of a new newsletter-style column
Switch to print layout view.
Click where you want to start the new column.
On the Insert menu, click Break.
Click Column break.
Microsoft Word moves the text that follows the insertion point to the top of
the next column.
from Pamela Skelly, April 2006
email: pskelly@eastconn.org