Character Account Word 2011 Full Screen Views

Character Account Word 2011 Full Screen Views

You can adjust text wrapping in Print Layout, Notebook Layout, Publishing Layout, and Full Screen views.

This produces a pop-up menu from which you can choose Wrap Text.

The Wrap Text button offers the same wrapping options as the Advanced Layout dialog, but you choose them using a pop-up menu, like this.

James Gordon is a Microsoft MVP for Macintosh, creator of the InsertPicture add-in for Mac PowerPoint, and an Office trainer.

Now, why would you want to see those characters, you may ask Well, if the text within a document is behaving oddly, figuring out whether something behind the scenes is working against you is definitely the way to go, especially with how persnickety Word can be about moving elements around.

Take this bit of text, for example: Seems pretty normal, right But if I reveal the hidden formatting, heres what we see: Whenever you hit keys like Tab, Return, Spacebar, and so on, Word is actually sticking what it calls nonprinting characters in.

So if I couldnt figure out why my text was doing weird stuff after my last word typed there, its probably because of that page break Good to know.

And if youre not familiar with any of the symbols used for those nonprinting characters, check out the Wikipedia article on it.) Turning this view on and off is luckily very simple.

In the most recent version of Word, youll just select the Home tab in the toolbar and then click the giant paragraph sign, which looks sort of like a backward p.

To turn off showing those nonprinting characters, press that button again, and youll be back to the normal view.

Finally, note that you can also control which nonprinting characters show all of the time, whether youve toggled this button on or not.

That option is available by clicking on Word Preferences from the menus at the top of the program.

Once the Preferences window opens, choose View: Then youll see exactly which characters you can choose to have showing all of the time: Hopefully thisll help you sort out any formatting issues with Microsoft Word; I do like the program (contrary to my views on it a few years ago), but man oh man can it be weird about inserting pictures or reflowing text.

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Character Account Word For Mac 2011