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Writing Doc Using Microsoft Word

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. MS Word 2007 and 2010 is not fully compatible. Open Word 2010 document in Word 2007 might cause problems.

  2. Word 2007 is not as good as Word 2010 at converting documents to PDF.

  3. Select a block of text and click the "Format Painter" button in the home tab, then you can apply the format of the selected text to other block text by clicking/selecting it. If you want to apply the format to multiple blocks of text, you have to double click the "Format Painter" button.

  4. alt + = inserts an equation in Word.

  5. To add line numbers to a Word document.

    a. Select the "Pay Layout" Tab. b. Click "Line Numbers" in the "Page Setup" Group.

    This can be very convenient for collaborative editing in Word.

Difference and Merge

Word Diff https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Compare-and-merge-two-versions-of-a-document-F5059749-A797-4DB7-A8FB-B3B27EB8B87E https://ben.balter.com/2015/02/06/word-diff/ https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Diff-Microsoft-Word-docx-documents/qaq-p/14223

diff using pandoc? https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Comparing_Versions_of_a_Document

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