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Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!

Word: no

Everyone: please delete

Word: shan’t

Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*

Word: answer me these riddles three

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(you need to enable show formatting marks)

This is the most important word processing tip of all. Mine is always on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once you start showing formatting you will also be able to see and delete "Section Breaks" more easily, which brings in another bit of Word deep magic:

Settings for sections are at the end of the section. If you delete a section break, the previous section will start using the settings of the next section.

This is especially fun for the last section of the document. If you want it to use the settings from the previous section, you have to manually "copy" the settings by editing the good section and then Redo in the bad section.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does that include the dots between words instead of spaces? My colleague uses that and their documents are nigh unreadable to me at a glance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It does, but that's invaluable too, and you get used to it pretty quickly. It let's you see if there's a space (dot), tab (arrow), line wrap (bent arrow), or whatever. Very useful if you deal with documents a lot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't enable it for everyone who reads the documents, just yourself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm aware, I just frequently have to do over-the-shoulder proofreading and the dots always frustrate me

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Yes, but you get used to it very quickly.