Creative Connections

To insert a tick box in your Word (2003) document:

1. Display the Forms Toolbar (click on the View Menu, select Toolbars, Forms)
2. Click on the picture of the tick box
3. To activate it, you must protect your document for use as a form (click on the Tools Menu, select Protect Document...for Forms)

To tick the tick box, click in the box with the mouse or press the spacebar.

Note: Despite the picture displayed in the toolbar, this action places a cross in the box, not a tick!

Have you ever had this situation:

1.  This is your first item

2.  This is your second item with the number annoyingly appearing in bold

This happens when the last word or character in the paragraph was previously bold. Word stores formatting information for each paragraph in the paragraph symbol at the end of each paragraph.

To cure this problem( up to and including Word 2003):

1. Reveal the paragraph symbol at the end of item 2. (click on the Show/Hide paragraph symbol button on the Standard toolbar)
2. Select the paragraph symbol and click on the Bold button to remove the bold

Magic!

You can insert foreign accents in your documents (up to and including Word 2003) by clicking on the Insert menu and choosing Symbol.

Make sure that the Font box: shows normal text and then select on the appropriate symbol and click on Insert.

If you have to use accents frequently in your work, you can assign them to a Shortcut key or to AutoCorrect. You can do this while you are in the Symbol dialog box as above.
 

Does it annoy you when you type in a date without looking at the screen, and Word completes it for you in a way you didn't want? This comes from the AutoText feature. To turn off completion of tips (up to and including Word 2003):
 

• From the Tools menu choose AutoCorrect,AutoText
• Removed the tick from the box: Show AutoComplete Tip for AutoText and Dates