Microsoft Word is a handy tool to use. There are many interesting features “under the hood”. Some of these features can be time consuming in the production of documents. I’m surprised they are not as aware as they should be. These first seven councils are my favorites and I can not imagine life with Microsoft Word before I found them!

1. Oops. I left the Caps Lock!

We all know that feeling. You are happily typing and then you look at the top of your screen to realize that you hit the Caps Lock key. Now all you have typed in the wrong capitalization. Do not despair. Select the text and go to the Format menu and choose Change Case from the menu. Then select the folder from the list, which will probably be rocking.

2. As we talk issues.

Some useful shortcuts:

Select your text and click Shift-A to set the all caps.

Control Shift K in small capitals.

3. Move quickly in your document.

Try these new shortcuts to scroll through your document.

Control Alt Page Down: Next Page
Control Alt Top: Previous
Home Control: Towards the top of your document
Control Alt End: Go to the end of your document

Even in later versions of Word, a smart button below the vertical scroll bar called Select Browse Object. Click to select one of the options to scroll through your document at the next table, graphic, electronic, etc.

4. I’m lost. Where am I?

Forgot where you come from a change in your document? Try Shift + F5.
This returns you to the last place you made a change. You can make two return to the previous two changes go.

5. One click to find

One drawback of the screen when you search the appearance of text in your document, it always seems to appear right on the text you are looking for! It is not necessary to open the screen. Once you use the Find command to find the first point, close the search screen. It is noted that the double arrows in the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the word have changed to blue. Click on the top and bottom of your document is your text.

6. Numbering lines in tables

How often do you have a table where you want the first column to a numbered list. It is easy to do quickly. Simply select the column and click the Numbering button on the toolbar of Word. The same works if you want numbers per row and column in your

7. Page Break Fast

My last advice is very simple and is probably the one I used most. If you have a quick jump page, just use Ctrl + Enter

We’ll talk about some related to your daily work. Do you know the following situation? Want an e-mail with a Word file attachment, but e-mail can not be sent to ensure that the Word file is too large. And you lose a lot of effort to make the file small. You can try the following methods, which can reduce the size much.

1. Save

In the menu, select “File> Save As and save the file under a new name. You can compare it with the new file to an original, you’ll see that the size of a new one is much smaller.

You can also work this way. Select all the contents of the document, copy and paste into a new blank document and save it. Again, you will file the two documents is different.

2. remove older versions

If there are many old versions stored in the file, the file size larger. In the menu, select “File> Version” to verify if an older registered version. You can uninstall without value in the flat file.

3. Submit your photos wisely

“Insert” is one of the main reasons why the Word file to grow. Try inserting a smaller image. You can use a graphics editor to reduce the size of the photo before you add in the file. The file must employ poison or JPG and do not use these images in high resolution, such as BMP.

4. No “Embed TrueType fonts”

“Embed True Type Font” will be the size of the Word file. In the menu, select “Tools> Options”, select “Save” tab. Check if your Word file any true type font, and cancel the “Embed TrueType fonts” option. If you embed true type font, then choose “Embed characters in use.

Try the four methods above, you can see your Word file is thin.