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Paste Unformatted Text with a Shortcut in Microsoft Word

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 6, 2011

Many times when you need to paste text from the web, an HTML document, or even other MS Word documents, you may want to just get the text without the formatting and styling that is carried with it. There are several ways to do that, but out of the box, Microsoft Word doesn’t give an easy way, that is with one keyboard shortcut, to do that. The easiest way available with Microsoft Word 2010 is to right click and then click the “A” icon (“Keep Text Only” icon). Now, this is easy but if you need to use that feature… [Full Article]

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Reverse Numbered List in Microsoft Word

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 6, 2011

Making Numbered lists in Microsoft Word is pretty easy and anyone with primary knowledge about Word would make one even without trying; like when you type “1.” followed by space, Word would automatically start a numbered list for you. But when it comes to making a reverse numbered list or a top 10 list with a count down style, Word provides no ability of making such lists out of the box.
So how could we make one? Microsoft Word provides a feature for developers to create Macros in Visual Basic programming language which we can use to manipulate data easily and in… [Full Article]

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Converting Word .docx to .doc using Microsoft FREE programs

By Amer Kachmar | Published: December 2, 2009

Do you have a .docx Word file that you want to convert to .doc Word file but do not have Microsoft Word 2007 or earlier versions? You can convert it using Microsoft free programs, Word Viewer 2003 (Microsoft has removed “Word Viewer 2003″ and replaced it with “Word Viewer”) and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.
The instructions in this article refer to Word Viewer 2003 but since it has been replaced with Word Viewer, they may or may not be valid but you should be able to find your way to apply them with the new Word Viewer. However, I have not tested… [Full Article]

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