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I’m aware I’ve posted a lot about Word lately, but since buying the new netbook I’ve been determined to knuckle under and really try to work with Microsoft’s software rather than just bleating about it. It’s been wild. I’ve discovered what many of you will know: Internet Explorer is beyond rescue, Windows 7 is fine [...]

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Does Word keep bollocksing it up when you’re trying to mark a section of text? Here’s how you fix it.

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I was always happy with hitting Enter once and getting one carriage return – you knew where you were with the deal – but Word 2007 has better ideas. If its default behaviour – which is to insert two line breaks each time you hit Enter – bothers you, here’s how you turn it off: [...]

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I got given a new laptop at work, and had to go through the usual rigmarole of correcting the dictionary language, turning off AutoFormat, and fixing the default paragraph spacing. I forgot to disable the grammar checker, but fortunately it’s set to nag you by being no bloody use whatsoever. In this case, by taking [...]

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Word processor: job number one = display text clearly on screen. Word 2007: fail. Is that two spaces to the left of the dash, one to the right? One space left, no spaces right? In fact, it’s a space on each side: But of course. Is it me? Is it Calibri? Has anyone found a [...]

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Click here to go straight to step-by-step instructions. Anyone who’s used Word will know that, by default, it replaces bog-standard straight quotes (and here I’d demonstrate what they look like, but our theme will change them to curved ones) with curved ones. It also changes hyphens (-) to en dashes (–). No big deal, you’d [...]

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