But unfortunately [or fortunately, more accurately]… this entry reminds me that I am supposed to be catching up on my many incompletes (for class), rather than spending all this time in the Blogosphere.

Keyboard short-cuts for applying styles is a great way to save a lot of time on formatting.

Want to copy styles from one document to another? Here is how one can do it. Go to Tools > Templates and Addins > Organizer. On the left hand side, open the document with base styles (source) and on the right hand side, open the document where the styles are to be copied. Select styles from the left area and click on copy and there you go. Close the dialog and you will see the styles copied! A great time saver.

Thesaurus is also very useful and aptly included in the post. As far as Thesaurus is concerned, you can just place cursor on the word and press Shift + F7 to invoke. The user doesn’t even need to select the word for which synonym is required.

Thanks for these tips – they are very useful.

One that isn’t a poweruser tip but is violated so often is simple… use styles. People so often manually format things vs using styles. I don’t mean just paragraph styles, but character styles too.