Monthly Archives: January 2004

I’ve been asked by several readers if there’s a way to convert Word comments (Insert > Comment) to document text. It depends on what “convert” means. If you just need to get the text of a bunch of comments, you can open the Comments pane (View > Comments), select all, copy, and then paste to […]

Microsoft Word’s AutoText feature provides an easy way to store and then reuse text, graphics, fields, tables, bookmarks, and other items. For example, this newsletter includes the same “Fine Print” section every week. All I have to do is save that text as an AutoText entry, and I can easily insert it in the newsletter […]

I’m often faced with the task of creating a bibliography for a book I’m editing, but I hate typing in all those entries from scratch. Lazy fellow that I am, I’ve figured out an automated way to turn parenthetical notes into bibliography entries. It’s longish, but it sure beats doing it by hand. You may […]

Many of the books I edit in Word are loaded with footnotes, and I’ve often wished I had a way to see notes and text at the same time while scrolling through them independently. Comes the dawn! It’s easy: 1. Open your footnote-laden document. 2. Make sure you’re looking at the document in Normal view […]