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Word Processing Tricks for Genealogists
Pamela Boyer Sayre, CG, CGL

Old dogs can learn new tricks! People who try a new word processing feature are often surprised at how easy it is, and at how much it helps them in their work. It takes time to learn new features of your program, but the investment pays off in the amount of time saved when you have practiced and memorized the new trick.

This lecture focuses on learning to customize word processing documents with templates and style sheets to make later work or changes much easier. It also shows the ease with which "advanced" features most users never explore can be used: inserting graphic images and wrapping text around them; copying a graphic from a web site; sorting a list; automatically generating a list of figures, table of contents, or index; and setting up headers and footers for double-sided printing. A host of other practical word processing tricks is presented to help genealogists organize their research and have time for more!

(Note: Although lecturer demonstrates with Microsoft Word, these "tricks" can be adapted to almost any Graphical User Interface (GUI) word processor.)


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Last updated: 22 October 2006