Four Tips to Enhance Your Microsoft Word Experience

These Microsoft Word tips have been carefully examined, tested, and refined over the years. They make word processing easier and more pleasurable. I pass them on for your use and consideration;

If your computer mouse has a scrolling wheel on it, if you press it down while viewing a long Microsoft Word document, you will notice a strange little icon will appear on you screen. Pressing down on the mouse scrolling wheel enables automatic page scrolling. To scroll through the document all you have to do is move your mouse forward or backward and the pages of your Word document will scroll without you exhausting your finger scrolling in the normal fashion. To turn off automatic scrolling just depress the scrolling wheel again. You can enable automatic scrolling within a number of Windows programs and on different Internet browsers.

When working on a Microsoft Word document sometimes you need to insert a photograph or other graphic. Often the image may require resizing to fit perfectly within the area of the Word document you wish to place it. A trick to get it to fit where you wish is to first create a text box. Click Insert and Text Box (if you are using Microsoft Word 2007 select Simple Text Box). Position and size the Text Box where you wish the image to placed. Paste your image within the Text Box. The image will automatically resize to fit within the borders of the Text Box.

The small icon of the book and scribing pencil, on the status bar, located near the lower left side of the Microsoft Word document window is proofing your document whenever it is in activated. You can use it to jump to the first spelling or grammatical error within your document by double clicking on it. When Word detects a misspelled word or grammatically challenged sentence the icon displays an X. By clicking on the icon the cursor will be automatically moved to the error text. If you are using Word 2003 you will have to double click on the icon to move to the error. Right clicking on the icon will allow you to configure other spelling and grammar options.

If you are a bifocal wearing computer user, as I am, I'm sure sometimes you experience problems seeing and finding the minimize/maximize icon in the upper right corner in Microsoft Word as well as other programs you use daily. A work-around to utilizing the minimize/maximize icon in the upper right corner to resize the program window is to double click on the window title bar. The window title gives you an easier to find and larger target. Double-click it to reduce the size of the window and double click on it a second time to restore the window to its previous size.

These tips should work on all recent versions of Microsoft Word. Give them a try if they sound engrossing, challenging or you are simply desperate for something different to do. Enjoy.

Resource: Personal Experience (Microsoft Word user)