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136 SEPTEMBER 2019 |COMPUTERSHOPPER|ISSUE 379

Youcan also changethe default place to

save your documents.This is useful if you

avoid your Documentsfolder and Windows’

tendencyto clog this up.Head to File,Options

and then Save,and then enter your preferred

locationin the Default local file locationbox.

Youcan also add or remove items on the

Ribbonand the Quick Access bar (at the far

topleft), which can be useful forfunctions

you use frequentlybut Microsoftassumed

you wouldn’t. To add items to the Ribbon,

you’ll need to createanew sectionforatab,

or an entirelynew tab.

QUICKTRICKS

If you’re mergingtwo or more documentsinto

one master,the copy-pastingwill get tedious.

Word has abetter tool forthis job,called the

TheRibbon(continued)

Layouttools2016

Referencetools2016

Insert other kinds of break: acolumn break will neatly split text laid out in multiplecolumns;

sectionbreaks are useful forchapters, sub-sectionsof reportsor applyingvery different

formattingto only smallersectionsof adocument(landscapeorientation,forexample)

Creates footnotes,

automaticallyhandles

numberingand places notes at

the bottom of the relevant page

Insert atable of contents, which will be

automaticallyupdated when you apply

headingstyles to text –dothis when

beginningacomplicated document

Quick online reference

and encyclopaediatool

(2016 onwards)

Creates citations,and

handlesthe source

and formatting

Indent text (for example,atthe start of

paragraphs)rather than use tabs

⬅Word 2013 and onwardscan import PDFs,

convertingthem intoaneditable documentthat

you can then save as aPDF once done