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And Ron Hearn - I'm glad to see someone else knows about F4 - it is the
single biggest time saver when I use Word especially for making the same
change repeatedly as needed.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Ron Hearn <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com> wrote:
>
> F4 - repeats last action (not including cursor movements)
> F9 - updates page numbers in a TOC and TOF
>
> Ron Hearn
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> Subject: RE: [RMX:NL] Stupid Word Tricks
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> CTRL+SHIFT+C: Copy format
> CTRL+SHIFT+V: Paste format
>
> If they have taken the time to get one paragraph to look the way they want
> it, they can use these two commands to format other paragraphs.
>
> I also use Shift+F3 a lot. It toggles between lower case, title case, and
> upper case.
>
> Or give this list to a few who like/are willing to experiment with Word
> and are communicative:
>http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/keyboard-shortcuts-for-word-HP005186664.aspx
> .
> Then add to your document the ones they like and use the most.
>
> tims
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> I started at this new job a few weeks ago and have been tasked to write a
> document explaining the lesser-known features of Word. I know my favorites
> but for scientists writing expert opinions, what are useful commands they
> may not know about?
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