Articles posted on December 21st, 2004

Word 2004: ‘Clear Formatting’ does not remove highlighting

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 • 6:38 am

Word has this highlighting tool that lets you change the background colour of the selected text. It can be used like a yellow highlighter to highlight portions of text that need to be edited/changed/etc. This tool is available in the Formatting Palette, under “Font“. In other words, it is a character-level formatting tool. Then why […]

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Word 2004: Changing footnote/endnote options without inserting a new note

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 • 4:56 am

This is one of the typical annoyances in Word that years of complaining and cursing have done nothing to improve. Say you have a Word document with existing footnotes or endnotes whose formatting options you want to change. For example, you have a series of endnotes numbered with Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.) and […]

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