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    - How do I create/print more than one label for different recipients How do I create/print more than one label for different recipients at the same time? Example, we need to cut (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) one record (name with address) at a time from one software application to MS Word 2000, to later print a sheet of Avery labels that contains all records pasted. Note: Software application copying from does not offer any export capabilities, thatâ??s why we need to cut and paste. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74461
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    - Word, Printing When I have a document ready to print, and then hit the "print" icon on the toolbar, I am directed to the "Fax Wizard" when I have no intention of sending a fax. The only way to actually print is to hit file, then print, and choose from resulting options. Is there a way to change the setting on the print icon on the toolbar? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74459
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    - Tables When I create a table in word, and have numerical data in it, the formula function does not return a result. It gives me the actual formual not the numerical answer?? I also notice that when I creat a footer in my doc and use the insert page number or date it will actually writes out the date in not in a date format??? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74458
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    - Document always opens at 50%, How do I change? When I open one particular document it always opens at zoom = 50% size, with four pages showing. How do I get it to open at 100%? I've tried going to 100% and then exiting but that doesn't work. I?m on Word 2002. Also when I do a file new when I've opened this 50% document, the New document is at 50% also. TIA Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74454
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    - inserting merge fields from outlook calendar Hi Am wondering if there is a way of doing a form letter, pulling some fields from outlook contacts and calendar. thanks tim Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74443
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    - How to convert word to Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format ? Tq. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74441
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    - Adding a graphic I am using Word 2002. Can anyone tell me how to add a graphic to the Return address (with my address showing below) when setting up to print an envelope. I had instructions on to do this in an earlier version of Word but they don't seem to apply to 2002. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74440
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    - Default ruler and window size settings I've upgraded to Office 2003 on XP. All word documents load automatically as full screen with the ruler showing. Il there some way to change the default load settings? TIA Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74436
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    - Drop down lists in Word 2000 Hi. I will admit to being just a basic user of Word. I now need to get a little bit more involved. I need to create some forms that I will send to the involved people via email. I am in the process of creating a home inspection form. I want to use some drop down lists that give a few choices to choose from. The help system seems to be fairly straightforward. I am in the process of creating a new template. I inserted a drop down list form where I wanted it to be and then put in the various choices. When I hit OK, all I get is a gray box with the first choice in it, which is OK, but there is no down arrow from which to make a different choice if the default choice isn't correct. Can anyone tell me what I should do to get the drop down list box to appear? Thanks very much for your help. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74434
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    - why will microsoft word open for one user but not the other? word 2003 will open correctly for one user on our computer but will only open to the bottom task bar for the other user and cannot restore to full screen Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74433
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    - stop date updating automatically Hi I have a letter template that I use for quotes. I have the date line set to todays date. I would like it to stop updating, once I have saved the document as a .doc Every time I open the document I lose the date of the letter. Thanks Tim Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74428
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    - Word 2003 Table Drop down menu defect? I'm running into major problems with Word 2003 doing things all my itself and then hanging up. I'm running Word 2003 on XP Pro. The program frequently and randomly places a non-functioning Table Drop-down menu on the screen (in equally random locations) and nothing inn the Word program works after that. When running multiple windows, the drop down menu often appears when I return to the program even if there is no document in use and it was not there when I went to another application. Also, the screen randomly and all by itself will go to the reading screen (I use print screen) and loses all the tool bars. While hitting ESC will return to the print screen, the tool bars never come back. I have to Ctrl-S and then Ctrl-F4 to get out, and then restart program. I've reinstalled many times, no change. None of my other applications share these problems or similar hang ups. I didn't find anything on this in the Microsoft knowledge base. Can anybody help? Is this a common error? Is there a fix? TIA Bob Giel Los Angeles Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74427
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    - Table is far right. How to center it. When I open a table that I have created, the first column appears at the far right of my screen. How do I move it to the left? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74426
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    - Why I got "Server busy" warning? Hi, I used to use Word 2000, and recently, I frequently got "Server busy" warning when open a dialog such as modify format,print or insert symbol. I tried a lot to eliminate this problem by uninstall and reinstall Office even clear my computer by reinstall the system, but this still frequently happening. When it happening, a message to ask "switch to" or "cancel", but no matter what to chose, it just takes time and I cannot use the dialog. For this reason, I uninstalled the Office 2000 and installed Office 2003, but today this happened again when I tried to insert a symbol. This just happen in less than one year, before this, I never find Word 2000 has the problem. Anyone has the same experience? and any solution for sharing? Thanks! Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74422
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    - Field codes When I try to insert a picture into a Word document, Word inserts the field code instead of the picture. Can someone explain to me what a field code is, and how to change settings so that I just insert the picture? Thank you Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74414
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    - Need dot leaders Please help me find how to put in dot leaders after a sentence and before a number, i.e.: sldifuenkale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74411
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    - Line Spacing Has Apparently Changed By Itself ? How To Revert Back ? Hello: Using Word 2002. Always something new. On adding to a previously created document, my line spacing has now gone to twice what it was before, or what I would term a normal spacing. What might have happened ? How do I get it to go back to a regular, normal, spacing ? Thanks, Bob Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74398
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    - Word 2000 problem We have a problem printing to a Epson C45 printer in Win98 from Word 2000. Having spent many minutes on the phone to Epson support here in Australia, it came down to the following: When we are in the document and click on file, print, page setup. When we check the paper size, the only size available is custom and this cannot be added to or changed. Apparently according to the Epson staff member this is the reason we cannot print to the C45. Any ideas as we have deleted and reloaded the correct driver under Epson's instruction and all appears to be OK The printer is installed correctly and is the default printer Regards Roy Baker Australia Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74393
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    - Slow documents from network I have two machines recently imaged with XP and part of that image is Office 97 Pro. When the users go to Word, then Open a file from the network, it is soooooo slow. However if the user clicks My computer, the network drive, then the document, it opens fast. Why opening it through Word is it slow and just on the network drive, fast.. The same problem is with saving the documents. Your thoughts please.... Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74391
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    - New Blank sheets When I attempt to make a new sheet in word and I clink on a new blank sheet or go to the general tab and click new blank sheet I don't get one. What I get is a sheet that my has somehow saved that keeps coming up instead of a new black worksheet. Any ideas on how to correct this? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74387
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    - Help with formatting I know this is a Word newslist but the moderators are so knowledgeable here that I am posing my question here rather than subscribe to another newslist just to ask one question. Maybe someone will help me. I am using MS Outlook from Office XP and have a problem with formatting in the notes section (broad wide field at the bottom half) in both "Tasks" and "Appointments". Sometimes I will paste some text from elsewhere which happens to be double spaced. From then on if I type anything else in that note field I get a double space every time I press enter. Format does not seem to have an option to single-space it again. Is there a way to solve this? Thanks. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam jeff@stevens.com Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74367
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    - booklets I hope I can ask my questions without getting too 'wordy'. I want to make a roster that will be printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, in landscape design, but done as two pages per sheet, and printed back to back. I can change the paper size to 5.5 x 8.5 or 8.5 x 5.5, but don't know how to set up the rest. When I tred a sample, and printed it, it either printed (portrait) in the center of the 8.5 x 11 paper, and when landscape did the same. The member who did the roster last year, said there was no way to add next members (in alphabetical order) once all the typing was complete and before going to printer with out retyping everything. Ugh! All I can think of now is to do it in portrait, cut off the margins and tape two pages together before copying them. When I did the newsletter several years ago, it was printed on 11 x 17 paper, so I just set up 8.5 x 11 sheets in portrait and then taped the appropriate pages together to get the booklet form, again printing back to back. Any help would be much appreciated. By the way, I'm using Word 2000. Thanks. Janice Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74366
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    - I cannot open a .dat file My friend emailed me a Word file (*.doc file) to me, but the file Ive saved from the attachment in Outlook Express has a .dat extension. I cant seem to open it in wordpad. notepad or Work's wordprocessor, or even with Wordperfect Office 12 (I dont have Word). Is my friend wrong about what he has sent? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74364
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    - How do I downlaod the font papyrus.ttf? A document was created using papyrus.ttf in Office 2000 and I would like to print it using Word 2003. There is no such font. I was wondering how to go about downloading the font? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74359
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    - Question about Autocorrect Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this. I have Office 2003, and use Word. Please let me know how to turn off the following: Whenever I type '2005', it automatically comes up with a box to make an auto-chage to 2-28-05 (or whatever the current date is). I'd like to turn off just this one correction, without turning off the autosuggestion feature completely. Thank you. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74358
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    - How to find slide item numbers in a ppt2k file? Bill Dilworth (MS PPT MVP Team) told me that this post belongs somewhere in this newsgroup: I have a word2000 doc with 100 links to slides in ppt files. The links are created as icons. I want to change some of those links. I go to "Edit|Links..." in the doc file and see a list of links. How do I know which line goes with which icon in the doc file? When I click "Change Source" in the "Edit|Links..." box I get a browser that eventually asks for the item number that I want to change to. How do I know what the items numbers of the slides are in the ppt files? I can find out by copying a slide and pasting as a hyperlink into the doc file and then viewing "Field Codes" in the Tools|Options" window. But that doesn't help me easily find which of 200 or more slides belongs to a particular item number. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74351
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    - clip art won't print in a word document i have downloaded an image from microsoft, and put it in my word document, but when i try to print, only the text is printed. it does'nt show in the print preview, either. i have set the clip art underneath my text, as a background. Can anyone help? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74343
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    - How to password protect a bunch of Word document files at once? Hello. Is there a way to password protect a group of Word document files at once? Doing one by one with save as and its password options is a pain. This is with Word 2000 SP3 (all updates) in Windows 98 SE. Thank you in advance. :) -- "Is this stuff any good for ants?" "No, it kills them." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx & http://aqfl.net | |o o| | E-mail (nuke ANT if replying privately to a newsgroup \ _ / post): philpi@earthlink.netANT or ANTant@zimage.com ( ) Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74342
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    - Control Words Hello guys: RTF files sometimes have many "control words" hidden inside the text. Even though no one sees them while opening the doc in Word, when exporting/importing to other programs they can be cumbersome. Is there anyway to get rid of those (selected/all) "control words?" E.g.: \*\pn \pnlvlcont\ilvl0\ls0\pnrnot0\pndec }\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0 \lin360\itap0 \f1\fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\dbch\af23 \hich\af1\dbch\af23\loch\f1 Information Security and }\dbch\af23 \hich\af1\dbch\af23\loch\f1 s ensure completion of information security Risk Assessments on applications and/or systems to identify areas of vulnerability and initiate appropriate m}{itigation measures}{\dbch\af23 \hich\af1\dbch\af23\loch\f1 BTW, a related question, when one uses Track Changes, the tool tip gives the time a change was made. Is there any way to delete that time? Thank you for any insight... P. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74338
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    - Another text box question I have a legal landscape page on which I have placed about 30 text boxes (the bosses insist it be put in Word and not Powerpoint!). After I get them all in place (after much dancing around on their part) and start to draw the connector lines, they AGAIN start jumping all around and I'm at a loss as to how to stop it. I'm sure I've read the answer to this in one of your previous posts, but I'm to stressed to look for it now. Can you please help me? And thanks for this and all of your past rescues. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74336
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    - how do you write essay on gyms pros and cons The writing prompt follows: From infancy to adulthood, advertising is in the air Americans breathe, the information we absorb, without knowing it. It floods our mind with pictures of perfection and goals of happiness easy to attain... We are feeding on foolery, of which a steady diet, for those who feed on little else, cannot help but leave a certain fuzziness of perception.-Barbara Tuchman. I need to select and discuss some specific examples of advertising that illustrate what Tuchman call "pictures of perfections and goals of happiness easy to attain" Than explain how such advertisements can lead to a certain "fuzziness of perception," a distorted picture of reality. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74335
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    - Make 2003 cool its jets after a crash Is there any way to stop Word 2003 from making such a grand purple fuss after it crashes? In prior versions I could delete the temp-file debris, relaunch, and be back to work in under 30 seconds. Now I must [1] listen to its plaintive whimper about sending an error report, AND [2] endure the pointless (for me) task pane that insists on me confirming that I want to reopen the recovered files. It's like an old lady smothering a kid who's scraped his knee, refusing to let him return to the playground right away. Both of these processes happen quite slowly on my (new and very fast) machine. I can't think of an instance when I *wouldn't* want to reopen what I was working on and get back to business, but I'd rather do it without grandma serving it to me on a doily. Is there a switch or registry hack somewhere that'll cut that stuff out, or at least speed it up? TIA ------------ Mark Tangard "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74332
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    - HTML viewing in Word When I put web links in my word document, I see the web address in the document instead of the name of the site. Thus, I'll have take a look at Fred's web page, and have a link on Fred's, but instead of seeing Fred's, I'll see http://fred.com The same is true for my footers and page numbering. Instead of actually seeing the footer, I'll see {filename/p} and for page number, I'll see {page} on each page. I also get this with using the equation editor. I have tried different views (normal, web, etc.) but this doesn't seem to make a difference. When I go to print preview, all of this looks like it should look. Thank you for any help you can give me about this. Tom Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74331
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    - Hos do I get bck my "ADD" feature? When I'm typing something and I use a word that is not in the dictionary, the word gets a squiggly line underneath it. In the past I could right click on that word and a box would come up letting me change it to a recommended word or give me the option to "add" it to the dictionary. Now that "add" feature is no longer there. I can see it, but it isn't clickable. Did I do something to eliminate it? How do I get it back? Thanks. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74329
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    - how to default single-line spacing for word & e-mail? getting a bit annoyed - want to write in single space & e-mail keeps doubling/ is it choice of stationary, choice of text (which i don't unserstand) or what? now word is doing the same thing/ is there no where for defaulting line spacing? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74324
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    - Quote field I have just discovered MS Word's Quote field. Am I missing something, or is this the most pointless feature ever created? According to the Word help files, it simply inserts the literal text inside the field. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that something that can be done pretty easily without using a field? -- Adam (Remove 'nospam.' from email address to reply, or better still reply to the group) Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74319
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    - How to backup/restoreAutocorrect entries from Word 97 to Word 2003? I have used the utility from Steve Rado to backup my word 97 autocorrect entries and that works. I then take it to Word 2003 and perform the restore and it appears to work as in I can see all the entries, but when I go into autocorrect the additions are not there. Am I missing a step somewhere? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74316
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    - How Autocorrect entries from Word 97 to Word 2003? I have tried to use the utility from Steve Rado and it imports successfully. When I go to Word 2003 it appears to restore properly. When I look at Autocorrect they are the default entries that come with word. Am I missing something? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74315
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    - labels %26 envelopes I am using Word 2000 under envelopes and lables and trying to access my Outlook Express address book. When I click on the address book icon it tells me "logon failed. You need to log onto MS Exchange.... Unspecified error" I use win XP SP2 and Office 2000 without Outlook. I also use MS Fax under these conditions and have no problem accessing the address book with that package. Any ideas please? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74309
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    - automatically check German spelling and grammar? I am a newbe with Office 2003. In Word. How do you automatically check German spelling and grammar in Microsoft Office Word 2003? I can check Spanish but not German. Thank you for any help. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74307
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    - Auto capitalization In MS Outlook when I type to end of line and hit enter the program auto caps the next word. I do not want this to happan. In Auto Correct there is no check box to disable this function. How can I stop this auto capitalization from occuring. It happens in both MS Word and MS Outlook. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74300
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    - Header and Footer formatting How can I get a hader or footer to have the same line have some info on the left and some on the right, like this: XXXX XXXXX or do I manual space it? Thanks Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74297
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    - Page Layout Hi there, I am VERY new to MS WORD and am struggling a bit with a few things, one being page layout. I have chosen to work on a LANDSCAPE layout with 2 pages per A4-sheet. What I want is to have the top and bottom margins of all the pages set at 1.5cm. This I manage to do. What I can not get right, is the left margin of ALL the pages which have to be 3cm and the right margins all at 1cm. This is not for binding as I will cut all the pages in two without binding, so there is no need for a gutter.. I hope you understand what I need. Please help me out here. Regards, Deon Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74288
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    - How do I change spell/grammar check from US English to UK English. I would like to change my spell check settings from US English to UK English for a paper I am writing. Thanks, Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74287
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    - Colors in Org Chart Word 2003 under Win2000 pro. I used Insert|Diagram . . . to put an organizational chart into a document. The boxes in the chart show up on the screen, and print, in a blue color on a color printer; as a sort of grey on a B/W (laser) printer. Is there a way the colors can be changed--I'd actually prefer plain white. Thx. TomS Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74273
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    - Printing Problem I have a Word Document that contains fields and it also has a table or two. The document is only one page. The problem is when this document is printed it sometimes only prints half the document. We have ruled out the printer, this happens on more than one printer. The funny thing is it stops at the exact same spot. Has anybody encountered this before? Any suggestions? Thanks Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74268
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    - Work Clip art shape I have imported (or pasted) an irregular shaped object (clipartinto a word document. I want to add text around it so that the text matches the shape and is not in a box. How do you do that? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74266
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    - How do I correct Margin of Section 2 are outside print area of th. Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74258
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    - Outlook 2003 - Email Receive I periodically receive duplicate emails from various senders. I cannot detect a pattern on these. Any suggestions? Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74256
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    - letters - ask/fillin We are trying to switch from Wordperfect to Word for letters/faxes in my office. We currently have one box for all fillin fields to be entered at the same time - can this be done in Word? also, can Word place one fillin into to locations in the new document? -- CH Tag: Tips in Word Tag: 74254

Each time I start Word, there is a Tip with useful information that appears
on screen.
Is there a way to get a list, or print out all the tips?
Thanks.
Roger

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Re: Tips in Word by Suzanne

Suzanne
Wed Mar 02 17:14:20 CST 2005

This must be a fairly old version of Word. ISTR that the Tip of the Day list
is available (and therefore printable) through Help.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"Roger Giler" <giler@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Each time I start Word, there is a Tip with useful information that
appears
> on screen.
> Is there a way to get a list, or print out all the tips?
> Thanks.
> Roger
>
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