Old Favorite

Quick highlighting in Word

These can be useful when you are cutting and pasting, or if you want the spell check a single word or paragraph:

• When you are working in Microsoft Word, you can select a single word in your document by double-clicking it.

• You can select a paragraph by triple-clicking anywhere in the paragraph.

Do you have problems highlighting a long passage sometimes where the mouse seems to either get a small part of the passage or goes too quickly all the way down the page? Here are a few solutions to make highlighting easier:

• Hold the shift key down and use the arrow keys to highlight.

• Or put your cursor at the beginning, hold shift down and click at the end of the passage and it will be highlighted.

• Reduce the size of the page you're looking at to 50% so you see the whole page. (There's a percentage drop down on the toolbar at the top.) Then highlight.

• Put your cursor at the beginning of where you want to highlight and then hit the F8 function key at the top of your keyboard. Then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight the part you want.
   

New Favorite

International Character Toolbar

Thanks to TRT Julie Gaskin, for this handy tip!

Microsoft offers an add-in that you can install to insert characters from 26 languages into a document using only a single click.  Directions for installing and using this toolbar are below.

To install:

• Go to this website http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx

• In the search box, type International Character Toolbar and Go

• You will see Office 2003 Add-In: International Character Toolbar in the list.  Click on this link.

• Select Download.

• Save it to your desktop.

• Find the ict_usEN.exe icon on your desktop and double click.

• Follow the instructions on the screen to install it.

To use:

• Open Word.

• If you don't see the toolbar, choose View

• then Toolbars

• Then International Characters

• Click on Character sets

• Choose Select sets

• Check the languages you need

• Then OK

• The toolbar should then pop up.

• You can drag the blue bar of the toolbar up to your other toolbars and drop it there to anchor it.

• Now when you need a symbol, click on it and it will appear in your document!

You may now delete the .exe file that you saved to your desktop.