40 Ultimate Word Tips and Tricks Updated for 2020!
This video is the ultimate compilation of Word tips and tricks to enhance your skills using
Microsoft Word. I've combined long-established tips and tricks featured in previous videos with prominent new ones Microsoft added in 2019 and 2020. You'll find these tips and tricks useful
whether you're using Word for the first time or just wanting to enhance your Word skills. For the complete list of contents please refer to the description of this video. Let's get started!
#1 Line Spacing. Here's a trick to change the line spacing on your text. Just click anywhere inside
of a paragraph. Hit Ctrl-2 to change it to double line spacing. Ctrl-1 takes it back to single
and Ctrl-5 does one and a half. You can do the same thing by selecting a range of text.
it's just a quicker method to change the line spacing.
#2 Dictate. Dictate is a new feature available in Office 365 versions of Word. It allows you
to transcribe your voice directly into a Word document and it's available under the Home tab,
right here. This is a test of my voice recording directly into Microsoft Word.
Dictate also lets you select from different languages and as you can see there are a number of preview languages that are going to be added into Microsoft
Word in the future. It's a great option to record your document rather than typing it
#3 Read Aloud. Not only does Microsoft Word allow you to record your voice into a document, it will
read it back to you. Just highlight the text you want to read, go to the Review tab, click on
Read Aloud. "This is a test of my voice recording directly into Microsoft Word". It also gives you
options here where you can change to a different voice and you can adjust the reading speed
"This is a test of my voice recording directly into Microsoft Word". It's a great way to review your document.
#4 Quick Lines. Want to draw lines quickly into your document. Use dash-dash-dash Enter and it
creates a line for you. Use underscore three times Enter and it's a bolder line. Equals
and you get a double line. Asterisks and you get a dashed line. You can use multiple symbols right up
there by the number keys and you can get a variety of different lines quickly into your document.
Give it a try. #5 Researcher. Researcher is a great tool to add external content into your Word document. It's
available under References, Researcher. You start by entering a topic that you want to research.
It brings up a list of relevant topics that you can select from. If you look at the detail on any
kind of text information you can select part of it and add it into your document just by adding
and citing that information and as you see here it inserted that text, it created a bibliography
with a link to the original source. You can even select pictures. You can also further break down
your information between journals, websites, and books and select topics within each one of those
to find a particular article to research that information as well.
Any of the information that's inserted in your document is referenced and you can hit the Ctrl-Click to follow those to the actual website.
Researcher uses the Bing search engine to find this information so you can insert it into your Word document. So you have a ton of information at your fingertips.
#6 Quick Font Size. If you want to change the font size really quickly just highlight
your text and hold down the Ctrl-Shift and the >. That increases the font. <
shrinks it back down. It's the same thing as using these buttons up here.
#7 Vertical Select. Normally when you select text it does it in order
but you can do a vertical selection by holding down the Alt key.
Once you've done that then you can change the color, change fonts, change the size, or do a variety of other things on that group of text. That's the vertical selection.
#8 Clipboard Multi-Paste. You're probably familiar with Copy and Paste using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V or