Microsoft Word | J. David Stark

Turn the Tables of Contents over to Word

Microsoft Word can quickly create tables of contents so that the headings and page numbers update along with your document.

3 February 2020

How to Format Headings with Styles in Word

In Microsoft Word, a “style” is a collection of one or more pieces of formatting information. Styles are especially helpful when you use them to format your headings.

27 January 2020

How to Quickly Number Pages for Long Essays in Word

The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style long essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.

18 November 2019

How to Quickly Number Pages for Short Essays in Word

The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style short essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.

11 November 2019

Prefix keys for Microsoft Word

In Dan Gookin’s Word 2016 for Dummies (affiliate disclosure; Wiley, 2016), he provides a good deal of helpful guidance for beginning Word users. One particularly helpful resource that may be of interest more broadly is his nicely condensed presentation of prefix keys for producing diacritical marks (pg. 256, reproduced below). As the name suggests, the prefix…

24 July 2017

Word 2016 introduction for Mac users?

The “for dummies” series has a couple good introductions to Microsoft Word (for all and specifically “for professionals”). But, these texts seem to concentrate on Word as it appears in Windows, which is sometimes surprisingly inconsistent with how ostensibly the same version of Word appears in Mac OS. The similarly themed “idiot’s guides” series also…

17 July 2017

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