Ao usar um processador de palavra é completamente comum esquecer-se daquele que CapsLock a chave foi deixada sobre, ou você pôde decidir-se que uma parte de texto olha melhor em maiúsculo (sabido também como o upper-case: as letras pequenas são sabidas como o lowercase).

Thankfully o MS Word tem um atalho do teclado que o deixe dar um ciclo entre casos diferentes e formatos. Tudo que você necessita fazer é destacar uma parte de texto, mantem abaixado Deslocamento chave e imprensa F3.

Cada vez que você pressiona F3 a caixa das letras mudará (não libere Deslocamento chave!). Assim, “testar” estará substituído com “testar” na primeira imprensa, e “TESTAR” se você o pressionar uma segunda vez. Imprensa F3 outra vez e o texto retornará a “testar”.

Se você datilografar “testar” pelo erro, você pode mudá-lo a “testar”, então a “testar”, e a “TESTAR”; entretanto, não retornará a “testar”, provavelmente porque é altamente improvável você quereria sempre o texto estar nesse formato.

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Como um comentador indicou, uma palavra particular não necessita ser destacada para ter seu caso mudado por este método, tudo que você necessita fazer…

Eu duvido que muitos povos não fazem a uso a facilidade do spellchecking dentro MS Word. A maioria de povos funcionam provavelmente uma verificação da gramática demasiado. Não obstante, poucos povos usarão o relatório dos statistics da legibilidade da palavra.

Ligar este relatório, para abrir “dirige” o menu na palavra e estala sobre “opções”, seleciona “soletrando & a aba da gramática”, tiquetaqueiam da “a caixa dos Statistics da legibilidade mostra”, e o clique “APROVADO”.


Agora, quando você estalar sobre da “a tecla soletração e da gramática” (mostrada à esquerda), Palavra atravessará todos os erros que encontrar no texto selecionado, ou o texto inteiro se nenhum for selecionado, e então mostrar-lhe-á da “o relatório dos Statistics legibilidade”.


Este relatório é particularmente útil a qualquer um que deseja fazer sua escrita mais legible. The report not only contains general information about the number of words, characters and sentences etc, but also the average number of sentences per paragraph, words per sentence and the like.

The bottom section includes three very useful measures. The first gives a percentage of...

Here is the scenario, you have copied some text from somewhere and pasted it into Word; however, the text ends up looking something like this.

To see the cause of this problem, press the ‘Show/Hide ¶‘ button. As shown, the original text has carriage returns - as indicated by the ‘¶’ marks - at the end of the original lines. When this text was pasted into word the lines were no longer the same length, so, the carriage returns were in the wrong place.

The solution to this problem is to replace the carriage returns with spaces. You can do this manually, or use the replace feature in Word. To open the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box, pull down the ‘Edit’ menu and select ‘Replace’ - you may have to click the double arrows at the bottom of the menu to display all the entries on the menu - or you could hold down the Ctrl key and…

A while ago I wrote an article that suggested that rather than printing directly from web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, it is better to copy the information that you want into a word processor and print it from there. In that article I mentioned the use of the ‘Paste Special’ in Word, which enables you to remove formatting from the information that you paste. In this article I will explain how to put a button for ‘Paste Special’ onto the toolbar in word. This technique can also be used to add any of the other available buttons onto the toolbar.

Open up word and right-click on one of the toolbars, which are at the top of the screen below the menu and look something like this:

From the menu, select ‘Customize…’, which will open a dialog box. Click on the ‘Commands’ tab.

Select ‘Edit’ from the left-hand menu, because the ‘Paste Special’ tool is listed in the ‘Edit’ menu. Scroll down through the list on the right-hand until you see ‘Paste Special’ then…

Eye strain is a hazard to anyone who uses their computers for any extended period. So anything that eases the pressure on the eyes is a bonus. To this end, Microsoft have developed a tool for making text more legible called ClearType Tuner.

The ClearType Tuner only works on Windows Vista and XP, and is available as a web-based tool here. You will be required to choose which is the clearer text from a variety of options a couple of times, and then - hopefully - text should be clearer on your screen. Windows XP users can also download a Control Panel version from the Microsoft XP Power Toys page.

If you are a Vista user and wish to switch off ClearType check out Diana Huggin’s instructions on the excellent Lockergnome site.

If you wish to capture what you have on your screen as an image you can do so by pressing the Print Screen key (sometimes abbreviated to Prt Scr or similar) - on most keyboards this key will be found next to the F12 key, above the Insert key.

This will put an image of the screen into the ‘Clipboard’, which is the name for the “holding area” where windows keeps things that you have copied. You can then paste this image into any program that accepts pasted images, such as image editors or word processors.

Windows includes an image editor, called Paint, which is found in the ‘Accessories’ folder on the Start Menu program list. This application enables you to edit the screen image, should you wish to copy a section of it, or change its size, and save it as an image file.

Most word processors also include a few limited image manipulation features. In MS Word there is a toolbar that includes image manipulation tools, such as brightness and contrast adjustment, and a tool to crop the image. To show it, right-click on the image you wish to edit and click on ‘Show Picture…