Word Tips 2

Quick Case Changes

You can toggle through cases - UPPER CASE, lower case, Sentence case, and Title Case - by pressing Shift-F3 in Windows and Shift-FN-F3 on Mac.

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Did you know you can highlight vertically in Word?

This is a fun one for Word trivia buffs - all of whom probably need intensive therapy.

If you want to highlight vertically - say you have a vertical row of equation numbers hanging to the right of your equations, or line numbers hanging off to the left of your reading or computer code - and you want to apply the same character style for all of them, this will be useful. On Windows, hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift, or on Mac hold down Ctrl-Command-Shift [Ctrl-Apple-Shift], and start dragging your cursor down. Once you've made your selection, apply your character style.

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Better Rulers in Tables

Speaking of the Alt key (or option key, on Mac): You know how annoying it is trying to adjust the width of table columns by dragging the vertical rule? Hold down the Alt key to change this uninformative ruler:

to this much more interesting one: