What is something you find useful with Word that is seldom used, but if it is, it cuts down on Groan Time



Let me start with this:

You should know doing any fancy form design, do it with a table with the borders hid

Why, really?

Think of cells as separate pages in a sense, because the regular view of a page is really a cell

Okay, when you do a form design through a table, then each cell becomes a document within the main document, so within each cell, you can use the features of a document without messing up the main document

For example, with a 3 cell row, you can align left in the first cell, center in the second, and right align in the 3d cell

Add another table maybe to do some other juggling

Practical use? Resumes

To be honest - I'd rather use tabs than a table - neater, quicker, and easier to reformat! Each to thier own though

Favourite useful, but not common Word feature would be the Random Text Generation - as I do a lot of trialing stuff for replies on forums, it's always handy to be able to create a few pages of random text whenever it's needed!
i.e.
would give you 10 paragraphs of 3 sentences each.

I like Tables for Form Making, because I see them as literally "sub docs" within my main doc, and with NO borders, only I can see the borders at Print Out, thus hiding my "magic" from hard copy readers

Therefore, one of my more creative Forms may be full of Tables

As an aside, for anyone wanting to practice with Tables for Formatting, remember if you like one particular Table, but need to change a Cell Size, often Splitting the Table is what you want to do

Here are 2 ways I like to change Format:

If it is simple, the Painter is plain cool

If it is more complex, then I do a new Style and save it as a "Save Selection as a New Quick Style," which I can also use with Search and Replace