Ten Things I Didn’t Know About Microsoft Word

Paste Options: Appears just below your pasted selection after you paste text. When you click the button, a list appears that lets you decide how the information is pasted into your document.

Repeat Action: To repeat something you click on the edit menu and click repeat. Repeat allows you to repeat an action.

Word Count: Can count how many words you have. Word can also tell you how many pages, paragraphs, and lines are in your document, as well as the number of characters, either including or not including spaces.

Insert Table: It is a tool that helps you insert a table ranging from 1x1 to 4x5.

Macro: An action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.

Tab Stops: Tab stops a location on the horizontal ruler that indicates how far to indent text or where to begin a column of text, enable you to line up text to the left, right, center, or to a decimal character or bar character. To insert a tab stop you click TAB+CTRL.

Translate: You can use bilingual dictionaries to look up words and short phrases in the dictionary of another language, or you can obtain a basic translation of words, phrases, or your whole document by using machine translation over the Web. Click tools and click Language and then click Translate.

Auto Correct: Corrects words that are stored in your dictionary. Left click and click auto correct.

Toolbar: To add things to a toolbar you click View and then you click Toolbar and you select what you want to add in your toolbar.

Split: You can split the document window horizontally into two panes, and then control each pane separately. To active a space you need to click on the window and select split. Drag the split to where you want and then click on the bar or press enter.