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You can put color behind your text in a word document -- not just highlight it, but add color to the entire paragraph! It is fairly straightforward to do in Microsoft Word 2007. Follow the steps below to learn how: Launch MS Word 2007 if it is not ... already open. Key in the text to your document. In the Home tab on the Ribbon, in the Paragraph group, you will see a button that looks like can of paint. This is the Shading button. Click on the down arrow and on the resulting menu you will see a palette of colors that you can choose from to shade your paragraph. Select your color of your choosing ... (view more)

A reader recently wrote to ask "Once a table of contents has been created, can you change the page numbers appearing on the right side of the TO?" I am assuming that the reader is talking about an automatically generated Table of Contents (TOC). And ... if that is the case, the answer is yes, absolutely! The caveat is that you have to know how to create an automatically generated TOC in order to update it when you add more text. You can generate a table of contents using Word's built-in styles, such as Heading 1, 2, and 3, or by creating and using your own custom styles. If you have a document ... (view more)

You can put color behind your text in a word document: not just highlight it, but add color to the entire paragraph! It is fairly straightforward to do in Microsoft Word 2007. Follow the steps below to learn how: Launch MS Word 2007 if it is not ... already open. Key in the text to your document. In the Home tab on the Ribbon, in the Paragraph group, you will see a button that looks like can of paint. This is the Shading button. Click on the down arrow and on the resulting menu you will see a palette of colors that you can choose from to shade your paragraph. Select your color of your choosing. ... (view more)

When you uses Styles in Microsoft Word, you can see the style of the currently selected paragraph in the Style dropdown list on the Formatting toolbar. To see what style is applied to a paragraph, you may click the paragraph and look at the list on ... the toolbar. When you receive a document from someone else, whether it be someone in your office or someone from a remote location, wouldn't it be nice if you could instantly see what styles used for each paragraph in the document? Well you can, and I am going to tell you just how to accomplish that. I have been told by folks who work on Help Desks ... (view more)

MS Word's Format Painter is a very cool means of copying just the format of one word or paragraph, then pasting (or painting) it onto others. It's a shortcut that is very easy to master and pays off handsomely in a document with inconsistent ... formatting. Format Painter works on two levels: character and paragraph. You can copy just the character formatting -- fonts, font sizes, font attributes -- or character style from one word and apply it to other words. Or you can copy the paragraph formatting (line spacing, alignment, indentation, et al.) or paragraph style from one paragraph and apply it ... (view more)

After your document is finally finished and formatted just the way you wanted, you often have to send it to another person who is collaborating with you on the document. When it comes back to you, sometimes it doesn't have the same formatting as ... when you last saved it. If a document comes to you single spaced with no line spacing between the paragraphs, rather than clicking at the end of each paragraph and pressing [Enter], you can add line spacing to the entire document in two easy steps: Press Ctrl+A. Press Ctrl+0 (zero). MS Word adds a 12-point line space before each paragraph, which is ... (view more)

Similar to bulleted lists , numbered lists can be created either before or after you create a list of information using MS Word. For example, you can either: Click the Numbering button to toggle numbering on, and then type the list Type a list, ... select it, and click the Numbering button to toggle numbering on. You can also create an automatic numbered list on the keyboard. Type a number and a period and then press Spacebar or Tab at the beginning of a paragraph. When you press Enter at the end of the paragraph, the numbered list is automatically created. Numbers are automatically added to the ... (view more)

A specific list of items in a business document is commonly formatted with a hanging indent with numbers or with small symbols called bullets to the left of each item. If the items must occur in a certain order, use a numbered list. If you can list ... the items in any order, use bullets. You can use bulleted or numbered lists for the following purposes: To shorten the text To draw attention to certain elements To summarize To show sequence or relationship Create Bulleted Lists You can create bulleted lists either before or after you've typed the text. Click the Bullets button to toggle bullets ... (view more)

Spacing affects the readability of a document. If you have long lines of text spanning the width of the page, your eye has to work to track all the way across it. To make it easier to follow the lines across the page, you should increase the spacing ... between the lines (or shorten the lines). That's why teachers usually ask students to double-space reports. As with all paragraph formatting, place the insertion point within the paragraph or highlight all or part of the paragraphs you want to format; then, do any of the following instructions. Set Line Spacing using Menus: Choose Format | ... (view more)

A hanging indent is created when the first line of the paragraph starts at the start of the left margin, but the second and subsequent lines are indented. Hanging indents are a very common format used in many documents because it coordinates ... information. In MS Word, you can initiate a hanging indent by pressing CTRL+T on your keyboard. This "hangs" a paragraph to the next tab stop. If there are no previously defined tab stops in the paragraph, Word indents to the next default tab stop (typically in one-half inch intervals). Each press of the shortcut (CTRL+T) indents the paragraph one more ... (view more)