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Embedding Fonts in Microsoft Word Documents in Windows
The fonts you use in a document determine how that document appears when viewed or printed. If you share your documents with others and they don't have the same fonts on their system, Microsoft Word will substitute your font with another. This affects the layout and formatting of the document, so the number of pages might not be the same as the original and line and page breaks will not be where you intended them to be. The worst thing that could happen is that your text may be unreadable with symbols and boxes substituting characters.
Quickly make a spelling correction in Word
You can quickly make a spelling correction on a word in Microsoft Word without running spell-check on the entire document. A quick way to correct a misspelled word in Microsoft Word is to right-click on the word that has a red wavy underline. The resulting pop-up menu contains spelling suggestions which you can then select and have the misspelled word replaced.
Protecting Track Changes
Track Changes is a great tool for editors and collaborators to use when creating documents. An author, seeking changes from editors, may want to protect a document so that nobody else can accept or reject changes made in the document. This tip explains how that protection can be achieved.
Microsoft Word 2003: The Work menu
Most people know about the "recently used documents" list at the bottom of the File menu. By default, this menu is set to show the last 4 documents you opened. You can change this number up to a maximum of 9 by choosing Tools > Options. In the General tab, make sure there's a checkmark next to Recently used file list and change the entry to a higher number.
Two ways to quickly determine table cell dimensions in Word
Working with tables in Microsoft Word? As you probably know, you can change the size of a table's rows and columns by dragging its row and column borders in either direction. However, adjusting row and column dimensions to exact measurements can be tricky when you use this procedure.
There are two ways you can easily determine a table's row and column dimensions as you adjust them with your mouse. Before proceeding, make sure the ruler is checked under the View menu in Word.
Microsoft Word 2003: Compare documents side by side
Sometimes viewing multiple changes made for different versions of one document can be overwhelming, but now you can use a new approach to compare documents. Suppose you are working on a Word file called file_A_ver1.doc and then you emailed it to a colleague or a publisher for review and/or editing. Once the revisions are made and the Word document is emailed back to you, you then save it with a different file name and call it file_A_ver2.doc. You can compare these two documents side by side using the Compare Side by Side feature in Microsoft Word. To do this,
