Microsoft Word

Word Tip: Keyboard shortcuts you may have never knew existed

Recently, I’ve been doing more documentation than coding in VBScript (I’ve been coding, just in VB.Net recently) and have found some useful keyboard short cuts in Office that I thought I’d share with you all in a few blog posts, becasue while I know a lot about a lot of stuff… when it comes to Office I’m still just another “user”.

These Shortcuts are for Microsoft word and help in formatting the page more quickly.

Enjoy!

Word Tip: Quick and easy tables in Microsoft Word

This isn’t a VBScript tip— or even a systems administrator tip. However, it is a valuable tip on a quick easy way to create tables in word that are EXACTLY the size you need without knowing ahead of time and doing a lot of clicking in the menus… and if your like me with the number of tables you have to create for documentation this tip is a life saver!

Essentially, You Type the rows like you would a normal sentence except between where you want the columns you place a tab. When the row is completed, instead of pressing ENTER to start a new row… press SHIFT ENTER to start a new row. Then, end the table by simply pressing ENTER.

Finally, highlight the text you wanted to make into a table and select “Make Table” or “Insert Table” from the menu in Microsoft Word, depending on your version. TAHDAH!!!

Here is an example:

This is a cell ”Tab” in a row ”Tab” that is the first row ”Shift Enter”
This is another cell ”Tab” in another row ”Tab” that is the second row ”Shift Enter”
This is a cell ”Tab” in the last row ”Tab” that is the end of the table ”Enter”

It should look like this after you select to Insert the table: