Creating page breaks using the pilcrow

I ran into an interesting problem a while ago where I needed to explain to an Apple Mac user how to begin each chapter on a new page in a re...

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Word codes for Find and Replace

I use Word a lot for editing text. I often import scanned text into Word, and - because importing text rarely results in clean formatting - ...

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Protecting Word document branding

Thanks to Susan Harkins at TechRepublic (2022), I found out how to protect the branding in my Word headers and footers. As we all know, cons...

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Word Find and replace using special codes

If you are like me, there will be times when you want to make a load of changes to the formatting of Word documents that have become quite l...

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Replacing Word's non-breaking space

After all these years, I had finally become motivated enough to want to find out just what that little degree symbol meant when Word formatt...

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Word's format painter

Microsoft Office programmes are pretty much - to mix a metaphor - the lingua franca of business. And, if we are writing a document, it is MS...

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