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The Importance of Microsoft Word's styles

by Russ | Sep 24, 2016 | Formatting, Microsoft Word, Structure & Layout, Styles

I thought I’d already written a post on how Microsoft Word styles are used in every document imaginable, but apparently not. I created a YouTube video a while back for it, but I can’t locate the post it was intended for…maybe it was on the old Word...

Microsoft Word Table of Contents Page Number Alignment

by Russ | Jun 2, 2016 | Formatting, Microsoft Word, Structure & Layout, Styles

I created this video showing how to resolve the Microsoft Word Table of Contents Page Number Alignment in 2015, but though it was on YouTube (and had racked up 8,500 views as I write this in June 2016), I forgot to create a blog post about it. What jogged my memory...

Don’t Let CreateSpace Reject Your Manuscript

by Russ | Jan 11, 2016 | CreateSpace, Formatting, Microsoft Word, Report, Self-publishing, Software, Structure & Layout, Styles

If you’ve ever tried to publish a book with CreateSpace, the chances are your manuscript was rejected by them at least once during the book submission process. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, as it happens to everyone. The problem is it does get...

Microsoft Word – Convert and Format with 1-Click Book Creation

by Russ | Oct 10, 2015 | Amazon Kindle, Formatting, Microsoft Word, Self-publishing, Structure & Layout, Styles

Create, Format, and You’re Ready to Self-publish in Under 1 Minute… There will come a time when I’ll write a blog post and it won’t contain one single mention of Word styles. However, this isn’t one of them. I won’t harp on [again], about their importance...

Microsoft Word Tabs: Always One Too Many

by Russ | May 28, 2015 | Formatting, Microsoft Word, Structure & Layout, Styles

I’ve been working on a new document today and, as it’s got 1 or 2 checklists in the appendix, it’s time to avail myself of some more wonderful functionality that the world’s greatest word-processing package has; or, more specifically: ‘Microsoft Word Tabs:...

Creating Rectangular Shaded Boxes in Microsoft Word

by Russ | May 22, 2015 | Formatting, Microsoft Word, Styles

Caren asked in the Word Words Facebook group about creating rectangular shaded boxes in Microsoft Word. There are a lot of ways you can actually do this in Word, my preferred method would be to use a table cell. Using a table cell gives you a myriad of options for...