Tip on three useful Winword 6.0 buttons

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