What is AutoCorrect and How to Use Autocorrect in Word and Excel

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AutoCorrect is an automatic editing feature that is often maligned for causing unwanted and sometimes embarrassing word substitutions. It is also a long standing feature of Microsoft Word that can be used in some surprisingly powerful ways. You are probably familiar...

Back to the Desktop – Real-Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word 2016

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The emergence in recent years of the Web-based version of Microsoft Word has led some people to speculate that the desktop version of Word would one day soon become obsolete.  But nothing could be further from the truth.  In the 2016 release of Office,...

Custom Styles 101 for Proposal Writers – The Secret Power of Heading Styles

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Most of the respondents to our Styles Survey report using Custom Styles to format proposals. But even among avid Custom Style users,  the proper use of Custom Heading Styles is debated.  Here is a look at the issues. The Secret Powers of Built-in Heading Styles...

Creating and Using Styles in Word: A Guide to Paragraph Formatting

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Twice as many of our Style Survey Respondents report that they use Custom Styles for their reusable proposal content than those who do not.   If you create your styles correctly, formatting your proposals will work like magic. In this post we will look at the steps to...

Custom Styles 101 for Proposal Writers: Understanding Styles

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Almost 50% of our Styles Survey respondents who report NOT using Custom Styles cite not understanding how as the primary reason.  Styles are easier than you think and well worth the time investing in learning how to apply them. Distinguishing Between Formatting and...

Sample Content Library Structures

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In the previous post we used distinctively formatted labels to organize the content in a master ‘Content Library’ document. In this post we will look at some sample Main Category and Subcategory structures for a cross section of industries. These samples are for...