Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

Microsoft Word 2000 - Play Games With Your Assistant

Want to play games with your Office Assistant? Click on the

assistant and drag it to your document. Now, start typing so that

your text gets near the assistant. As soon as your text gets too

close, the assistant will move out of the way! Keep typing near the

assistant and the assistant will keep bouncing around your document,

and eventually out of your document completely.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

Adding a cover to a finished Word document

Let's say you've just finished a long Word document, and you want to

add a cover page. All you have to do is:

Go to the beginning of your document and press Ctrl+Enter. This automatically enters a page break. Then all you do is push the up arrow and hit Enter. Now you have added a page to the front of your document, and you can

make your cover page.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

How can I change settings, turn features off or on, and alter the way Word behaves?

Most of these settings are on the Tools menu. The Options command will display a screen that contains several tabs where you can make all sorts of changes that affect Word's behavior. The Customize command allows you to change Word's menus and toolbars. The View menu has some options for changing the appearance of the Word screen.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

How do I get Word to stop helping me type?

There are several places to look to turn off Word's various automatic features:

1) Choose AutoCorrect (or AutoCorrect Options) from the Tools menu, then click on the AutoCorrect tab.

2) Clear the check boxes for the AutoCorrect items that you want to disable.

3) Do the same for the AutoFormat As You Type tab.

4) On the AutoText tab, clear the Show AutoComplete tip check box.

5) Choose Options from the Tools menu, then click on the tabs and clear any check boxes for features that you want to disable. For example:

Edit tab (Tabs and backspace set left indent). Spelling & Grammar tab (Check spelling as you type and Check grammar as you type). When these features are on, spelling and grammar that Word does not recognize are underlined with wavy red and green lines.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

How do I tell the Office Assistant to go away?

1) Click on the Office Assistant, then click on Options.

2) Clear the Use Office Assistant check box.

You can also customize the behavior of the Office Assistant by checking or clearing the checkboxes on the Options tab. If you want to learn how to customize the Office Assistant, but it's not currently visible, choose Show the Office Assistant from the Help menu.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

How do I turn off the automatic URLs?

1) Choose AutoCorrect (or AutoCorrect Options) from the Tools menu.

2) Click on the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Under Replace As You Type, clear the Internet and network paths with hyperlink check box.

If you didn't turn off AutoCorrect before you started typing and now you have a document full of hyperlinks that you don't want, you can turn them off, either one at a time, or all at once. To turn a link off, right-click on the link, select Hyperlink from the pop-up menu, and then select Remove Hyperlink. To remove all links from the document, choose Select All from the Edit menu or press [Ctrl]+[A], and then press [Ctrl]+[6] to remove all hyperlinks.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

The toolbars and the menus in my old version of Word looked different. What happened?

The Standard and Formatting toolbars can share one row in later versions of Word, or they can be displayed on two rows, as in the older versions. Also, the menus can show a basic set of commands, with the recently used commands shown first, or you can show all commands.

1) Choose Customize from the Tools menu.

2) Click on the Options tab.

3) Use the check boxes to make your selections.

Microsoft Word Geek Tip:

What are Word XP Task Panes?

The Word XP task panes appear on the right side of the screen, along with the document you are working on. The options on the task pane may change, depending on commands you have chosen. For example, some Word 2000 commands that displayed in dialog boxes now display in a task pane. If you don't want to use the task pane, you can hide it by clicking the X in the upper-right corner of the task pane. To turn it back on, select Task Pane from the View menu.