Captions let you add autonumbered labels under most Word objects including pictures (figures), tables or equations. Captions can be combined into a list of all the figures/tables/equations in the document, along with their page numbers. As usual in Word, there are many options beyond the simple adding of captions and some ‘gotchas’ as well. See Changing […]
What’s the difference between aligning to a page and align margin in Word documents? Quite often, there’s no practical difference between ‘Align Page’ and ‘Align Margin’ in Word. These options appear when positioning an object on a page and other places. Centering an object has to be done compared to some defined ‘edge’ of a […]
How to show original text and a translation side by side in Word. The recent versions of Word have had an in-built translation feature that, like so many things in Microsoft Office, doesn’t quite go far enough. The basics are simple enough. On the Review tab there’s a Translate button. Click on that to translate […]
Like an image in an Microsoft Outlook email? Here’s how to save it to a separate picture file. Sometimes you get an email with a nice picture displayed in the message (as opposed to an attachment). You can ‘grab’ any image and save it to your computer. On most web pages you can simply right-mouse […]
How can you change the default program for .RTF documents away from Word and make it stick? We’ve talked about the virus security risk of Rich Text Format .RTF files which even Microsoft has, at times, suggested blocking. Despite that, .RTF files are associated to Word during the Office installation. The modern installer doesn’t give […]
