Comments on: Making Documents Look Much Better in MS Word

By: Daniel Labrador

Daniel Labrador — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:17:41 +0000

Styles! Really! If you ever use Word to do something serious like write a book, you’ll want to be intimately familiar with Word’s style features as well as all the features that build off the styles, like auto-generation of TOC, Indexes, etc.

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By: bradnh

bradnh — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:09 +0000

Oops (redfaced) Nevermind on that last post- been using Word since… 2003 and NEVER noticed or used the format paintbrush… THANKS!

By: bradnh

bradnh — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:23:01 +0000

Great tips- but “Format paint”? Gotta admit that I’d never heard of this and don’t see it in Word/Office 2003. Am I missing something?…..

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By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:55:24 +0000

@Ariel, I agree with you. Pages is awesome. But for non-Mac users, it may not be worth the $2K give or take investment to buy a new computer to make documents look better. ;-)

One good thing about Word is that it’s cross platform and the basic functionality that Samuel describes is available in either the Mac or PC versions.

By: Ariel Diaz

Ariel Diaz — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:49:19 +0000

I have great advice: use Apple’s Pages.

If you actually want something to look good, use Pages. MS Word drives me crazy with the random formatting inserted everywhere. This is especially irritating if you have copies things from a few sources, have a few editors, have made a few drafts, and have done any format changes. Oh, sounds like every document you’ve every worked in.

With pages, it does things that you’d expect to be standard, like format an entire paragraph the same, and doesn’t force you to have to trick it to not look like crap.

Don’t get me wrong, these tips are good, but you can avoid having to use most of them with Pages.

By: THIEL

THIEL — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:41:34 +0000

The most powerful — and most underused — function in Word is Styles. Take a few moments to figure out how to use them, and you will save hours a week on formatting word documents. Really.