Microsoft Excel can wrap text so it appears on multiple lines in a cell. You can format the cell so the text wraps automatically, or enter a manual line break. But this will prevent you from a cell potentially taking up...
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Word Tutorials
Below are a list of Word guides currently available, these are a work in progress and will be added to as time goes on. If however you have a need for a tutorial that doesn't exist yet then please email ITSkills@chi.ac.uk to request it.
Formatting...
Format Painter
Change font, style, point size and all formatting, in one go to match pre-existing text
Many times in Word you have copied and pasted something into your document only to find it is in a different font, size or is in bold or italics or some completely different format. Format...
Displaying hidden formattingWord has many formatting features which are not immediately obvious and can be hidden from view by default.
The following formatting options have no visibility unless the ¶ button is selected:Section breaks, Page breaks, Soft and Hard carriage...
The following formatting options have no visibility unless the ¶ button is selected:
How to create a Hanging Indent on your paragraphsNote about using the automatic referencing features
This guide will show you how you can create hanging indents that you may need to use in your referencing or simply to format your paragraphs throughout your document.
If however, you are...
How to add a Section break
Page & Section breaks have multiple uses. They are most notably used to create different sections within the same document, so that you can apply a different page orientation, affect page numbers and different headers/footers per section.
You can find the...
Sparklines
A sparkline is a small graphic designed to give a quick representation of numerical or statistical information within a piece of text, taking the form of a graph without axes. This is displayed within a single cell and can be used to visualise data when you don't have enough room or it...
Charts and Graphs...
Create a chart
Select the data for which you want to create a chart.
Styles
Styles can be quickly used to apply a formatting choice over a large area of a document. All text is initially created under the Normal style and will remain in this style unless Word is told otherwise. You can modify any existing style or create your own if there is not a pre-existing...
Automatic Table of Contents
Word has a feature that allows users to automatically generate an automatic table of contents, assuming that heading styles have been used. This table of contents supports different levels of indentation to highlight chapters and sub-chapters of the document itself. ...