Tip on three useful Winword 6.0 buttons

JAKARTA (JP): Winword 6.0 comes with a plethora of tool buttons to help you accomplish your tasks easily. Today, let's have a look at three of them that are very useful for creating a heavily formatted document.

To begin with, let's get to know the Format Painter button. You'll find it on the Standard toolbar of Winword 6.0. In the accompanying illustration, you'll see it under the arrow cursor. Microsoft has adopted this tool from Ami Pro 3.0's Fast Format. With the help of this tool, you can "copy" formatting attributes of a particular block of text and apply them to other blocks of text. Here's how you should use it:

First, place the insertion beam within a block of text that has all the attributes that you want to apply to another block, then click the button once. The cursor shape will change into a brush. Now, when you sweep this brush over a block of text with the left mouse button pressed, the same attributes will be ap plied.

To apply them to a single word, all you have to do is click once anywhere within the word. Winword 6.0 is intelligent enough to know whether you want to format a single word, a couple of characters within a word, or multiple words. Once you release the mouse button the cursor will return to its I-beam shape.

If you want to apply the same character attributes many times, you have to double-click the button. In the illustration, I had selected a block of text with Bold, clicked the button twice, and brushed over the words "TIFF", "Photo CD Collection", "Don't Forget", etc. To turn off Format Painter press Escape or click the button once.

Two other useful buttons are Undo and Redo. Click on either one, and a list containing the changes you've made will appear. You can select from the lists whatever action you want to undo or redo. These are very handy tools, indeed.

-- Zatni Arbi