SEARCHING FOR SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS
If you find yourself working on a Word document that's extremely long and
unwieldy, it can be difficult to find a specific, barely remembered word such
as a person's name. You might just have a vague idea of what the word sounds
like and nothing else. If so, Word 2000 has a feature for you.
Try searching for a word that sounds something like the name in question. Word
2000 has a primitive "Sounds Like" feature in its searching
capability, which searches for words with similar pronunciation. Give it a
shot. Select Edit, Find and click the More tab. Select the Sounds Like check
box and click OK. Word will scour your document, looking for an occurrence of a
similar-sounding word. With any luck, you'll find the name you're looking for.
SPECIFYING A TEMPLATE FOR AUTOTEXT
Many smart people use Word 2000's AutoText feature to reduce their number of
keystrokes and speed work. The downside of AutoText is that you sometimes see
those yellow boxes popping up too frequently, which can be especially annoying
if they don't pertain to the matter at hand. If you are a user who works on
several types of documents, it can be helpful to specify certain AutoText
entries to correspond to certain types of templates.
Let's say you have an AutoText entry for your company name--we'll call it Fake
Acme Inc.--and you want to make sure that AutoText pops up only when you're
writing company letters. To designate this AutoText entry for letters only, go
to Insert, AutoText, AutoText to open the AutoText tab of the AutoCorrect
dialog box. Then click on the entry you wish to modify (in our example Fake
Acme Inc.) and select a template from the Look In menu. When you finish, click
OK.
CHANGING THE DEFAULT FONT
Times New Roman is a nice all-purpose font, but it's not for everybody. Some
sophisticates prefer the clean European lines of Arial, while more traditional
types like the dignified Poor Richard. If you're tired of looking at Times New
Roman every time you open a new document in Word 2000, changing your default
font is easy. Open a blank document (if you want to change the default font for
documents created in the Normal template) by going to File, New. Then select
Format, Font and choose a new font and size. Finally, click the Default button,
and this font becomes the default for any document created using the Normal
template.
USING NEGATIVE INDENTS
One cool way to make your headings stand out from the body of your text is to
offset them to the left of the body text margin; this is called a hanging
heading. With hanging headings, a reader can quickly scan the left margin of
your document and get a feel for how the work is organized. One easy way to
create a hanging heading is to indent the heading line by a negative number, thereby
moving the heading text into the margin. Click on the line containing the
heading and choose Format, Paragraph. Under Indentation, enter a negative
number in the Left box (try -.2 inch) and click OK.
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