Word Templates – 3 Essential Elements from Phil on Vimeo. Business owners need designers to do what they can’t – create a high-quality and visually appealing representation of their corporate identity. But, like any other clients, they’re also looking for speed and efficiency alongside quality. In this post we look at some common errors users…
Headers and Footers in Word documents contain ‘extra information’ such as page numbers, chapter titles, and footnotes. Headers appear in the top margins of each page, while footers are displayed in the bottom margin. Word provides several built-in header and footer layouts, as well as the option to customise your own. Now, we know that even…
So you want to create an eBook. You’ve written your content and now it’s time to send it off to your designer. The go-to for most designers creating eBooks is Adobe InDesign, desktop publishing software for the pros. Like we’ve said before though, InDesign comes with not only a steep learning curve, but a hefty…
When you’re working on longer documents with many pages and lots of text, Microsoft Word’s Breaks feature is your best friend. This handy tool helps format the text in your document into clean, easy-to-read paragraphs and sections. Word offers a number of different breaks, including Page Breaks, Column Breaks, and Section Breaks – the most…
Microsoft Office Themes are the key branding tool within Microsoft Office. With a well-built custom Theme file, you can quickly and easily apply your brand identity to every document, presentation, and even spreadsheet. That’s right – Microsoft Office Themes can be used across Word, PowerPoint, as well as Excel. In this post, we’ll explain exactly…
We’ve said it before – if you’re creating a lot of documents in Microsoft Word, templates are the way forward. We’ve already talked about how we create templates and what goes into our process. But why do we like Word templates so much? And why do we think you should be using them? Well, here…
Create a Word Template: The Basics There is a detailed process we follow when we create a Word template. Building a proper Microsoft Word template isn’t just a matter of choosing (or creating) a Theme file and plonking in a logo somewhere. It’s a project, and it should be treated as such. That means planning,…
Although we might use keyboard shortcuts here and there, most of us rely on our mouse to navigate Word’s ribbon and select the tools we need. Something many Word users don’t know is that every command on the ribbon has a corresponding keyboard shortcut. There is some nuance to using keyboard shortcuts for the ribbon,…
Working in Microsoft Word is a very keyboard-focused task. But most of us still use our mouse for things like navigating the ribbon and applying formatting. When you’re busy typing, it can be frustrating having to stop mid-sentence, reach for the mouse, and start clicking around. At Documents With Precision, we spend a lot…
In our last post we shared some basic formatting tips for your Word documents. This week, we’re going to go a bit more in-depth and look at styles. Styles are sets of text formatting rules that make it quicker and easier to ensure consistency in your documents. If you apply the style Heading 2, for…