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SYN = punishing; For gruelling details on paragraph formatting,... Lernen beginnen
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very difficult and tiring
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The book goes into scintillating detail on paragraph formatting Lernen beginnen
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very clever, amusing and interesting
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The paragraph symbol in Word
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to create sth or make sth appear in surprising or unexpected way
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The obnoxious keyboard shortcut to summon the Paragraph dialog box is Alt+H, P, G Lernen beginnen
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extremely unpleasant, especially in a way that offends people
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The left margin, however, is jagged Lernen beginnen
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with rough, pointed, often sharp edges
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Both the left and right sides of a paragraph are flush with the margins Lernen beginnen
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(of two surfaces) completely level with each other
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a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again
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a child whose parents are dead
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Word conjures new pages when needed, pulling them in from the electronic ether. Lernen beginnen
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the upper part of the sky.
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That makes the concept of a page ethereal Lernen beginnen
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extremely delicate and light; seeming to belong to another, more spiritual, world
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That doesn't mean that the text is sideways, but rather that the text prints wide on a page. Lernen beginnen
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with one side facing forwards
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Most English teachers and book editors want margins of this size because these people love to scribble in margins. (They even write that way on blank paper.) Lernen beginnen
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to write sth quickly and carelessly, especially because you do not have much time
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to pay careful attention to sb's advice or warning
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a copy of a book, piece of music, etc. before it has been printed
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You see oodles of samples, so don't cut yourself short by not scrolling through the menu. Lernen beginnen
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[plural] (of something) a large amount of something
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Pluck a page-numbering style from the list Lernen beginnen
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to take hold of something and remove it by pulling it
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You can even suppress page numbers for a section, such as not numbering the first (cover) page of a document. Lernen beginnen
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to prevent something from growing, developing or continuing
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When the urge hits you to regress a few centuries and use Roman numerals to tally a document's pages Lernen beginnen
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to return to an earlier or less advanced form or way of behaving
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When the urge hits you to regress a few centuries and use Roman numerals to tally a document's pages Lernen beginnen
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to calculate the total number, cost, etc. of something
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That's refreshing, but it's not the end of Word's capability to thrust new pages into your document Lernen beginnen
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to push something/somebody suddenly or violently in a particular direction; to move quickly and suddenly in a particular direction
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The first choice is to keep whacking the Enter key until that new page shows up Lernen beginnen
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to hit somebody/something very hard
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A menu plops down with a host of predefined watermarks that you can safely tuck behind the text on your document's pages Lernen beginnen
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A menu plops down with a host of predefined watermarks that you can safely tuck behind the text on your document's pages Lernen beginnen
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to put something into a small space, especially to hide it or keep it safe or comfortable
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A menu plops down with a host of predefined watermarks that you can safely tuck behind the text on your document's pages Lernen beginnen
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a symbol or design in some types of paper, which can be seen when the paper is held against the light
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Navigating its implementation is akin to wandering archeological digs in the Jungle of Doom. Lernen beginnen
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to walk slowly around or to a place, often without any particular sense of purpose or direction
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Navigating its implementation is akin to wandering archeological digs in the Jungle of Doom. Lernen beginnen
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Document section helps you craft great-looking documents. Lernen beginnen
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to make something using special skills, especially with your hands
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All documents feature one section. Lernen beginnen
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to include a particular perosn or thing as a special feature
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A document, however, can sport multiple sections Lernen beginnen
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to have or wear something in a proud way
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Position the toothpick cursor where you want the new section to start Lernen beginnen
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a short pointed piece of wood or plastic used for removing bits of food from between the teeth
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to make something, especially foor or dring, by mixing different things
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The sneakiest way to slap down a cover page on your document is to use Word's Cover Page command Lernen beginnen
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behaving in a secret and sometimes dishonest or unpleasant way
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The sneakiest way to slap down a cover page on your document is to use Word's Cover Page command Lernen beginnen
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to put something on a surface in a quick, careless and often noisy way, especially because you are angry
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Headers and footers dwell in special, exclusive areas outside the realm of regular text. Lernen beginnen
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Headers and footers dwell in special, exclusive areas outside the realm of regular text. Lernen beginnen
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an area of activity, interest, or knowledge
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done too quickly because you do not have enough time
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To accomodate your hurried desires, you can quickly shove one of these preset headers or footers into your document. Lernen beginnen
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to put something somewhere roughly or carelessly
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You can even suspend the header and footer for a page or two. Lernen beginnen
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to officially stop something for a time; to prevent something from being active, used, etc. for a time
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You can alter the header or footer for a given document section. Lernen beginnen
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to become different; to make somebody/something different
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Such agility requires knowing a few tricks, which I'm happy to share. Lernen beginnen
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the ability to move quickly and easily
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A style is a single command that applies a virtual stew of formatting commands. Lernen beginnen
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a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid
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Caption style for figure and table captions Lernen beginnen
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a picture, diagram, etc. in a bot, that is referred to by a number
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These types come into play when you create your own styles as well as when you're perusing styles to apply to text Lernen beginnen
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to read something, especially in a careful way
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Styles dwell on the Home tab, in the aptly named Styles group. Lernen beginnen
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in a way that is suitable or appropriate in the circumstances
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The shortcut key to summon the Reveal Formatting pane is Shift+F11 Lernen beginnen
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to call for or try to obtain something
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As you hover the mouse pointer over a style in the Style Gallery,... Lernen beginnen
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(of birds, helicopters, etc.) to stay in the air in one place
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..., where you can remove or alter the formatting Lernen beginnen
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to become different; to make somebody/something different
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The dialog box is brimming with style command buttons Lernen beginnen
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to be full of something; to fill something
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Right-click the style you want to obliterate. Lernen beginnen
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to remove all signs of something, either by destroying or covering it completely
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Awash in a sea of styles, it's easy to overlook some of the more subtle aspects of Word's styles. Lernen beginnen
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having sth in large quantities
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Like just about anything in Word, the Normal style can be modified - but I urge caution if you do so. Lernen beginnen
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to recommend sth strongly
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SYN. awkward; Press the ungainly Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S key combination. Lernen beginnen
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moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
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This trick can be useful, but the Style Gallery shows only a pittance of the styles available to a document. Lernen beginnen
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A very small amount of money that sb receives, for example as a wage, and that is hardly enough to live on
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Computers are supposed to save you time, so why exert great effort on the formatting task Lernen beginnen
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to use power or influence to affect sb/sth
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These tools format your prose easily and rapidly. Lernen beginnen
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writing that is not poetry
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You can choose from a preset template or theme Lernen beginnen
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If you enjoy the thrill and excitement of templates, you'll just burst at the thought of creating your own. Lernen beginnen
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a strong feeling of excitement or pleasure; an experience that gives you this feeling
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SYN. Speed Up; Your own, custom templates greatly help expedite your document production duties. Lernen beginnen
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to make a process happen more quickly
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..., giving your written efforts a professionally formatted feel while keeping hordes of graphics designers unemployed. Lernen beginnen
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a thing that is used as a model for producing other similar examples
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the subject or main idea in a talk, piece of writing or work of art
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You have no need to pore over the keyboard and scout out the best character to highlight some chunk of text in your document. Lernen beginnen
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a fairly large amount of sth
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SYN. Examine; You have no need to pore over the keyboard and scout out the best character to highlight some chunk of text in your document. Lernen beginnen
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to look at or read sth very carefully
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PHR V.; You have no need to pore over the keyboard and scout out the best character to highlight some chunk of text in your document. Lernen beginnen
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to find out what an area is like or where sth is, by searching
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As a paragraph format, a border is coupled to a paragraph on the top, bottom, left, or right or some combination thereof. Lernen beginnen
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(formal) of the thing mentioned
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A hanging indent isn't in imminent peril. No, it's a paragraph in which the first line breaks the left margin. Lernen beginnen
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(especially of sth unpleasant) likely to happen very soon
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A hanging indent isn't in imminent peril. No, it's a paragraph in which the first line breaks the left margin. Lernen beginnen
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To fully flex Word's border bravado, summon the Borders and Shading dialog box. Lernen beginnen
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to bend, move or stretch an arm or a leg, or contract a muscle, especially in order to prepare for a physical activity
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To fully flex Word's border bravado, summon the Borders and Shading dialog box. Lernen beginnen
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a confident way of behaving that is intended to impress people, sometimes as a way of hiding a lack of confidence
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One gem hidden in the Borders and Shading dialog box is the tool to place a border around an entire page of text. Lernen beginnen
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a person, place or thing that is especially good
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That's how it works, up until the information you're trying to organize is best presented in a grid. Lernen beginnen
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a pattern of straight lines, usually crossing each other to form squares.
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In olden times, writes used the Tab key to build a table, setting various and clever tab stops and formatting the text accordingly. Lernen beginnen
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what was life like in the olden days, Gran?
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Word offers something better: the Table menu and its array of Table-making commands. Lernen beginnen
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a group or collection of things or people, often one that is large or impressive.
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These feats are beyond the capabilities of the silly old Tab key. Lernen beginnen
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an action or piece of work that needs skill, strength or courage
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Free your mind from the constraints of conventionalism, clutch a crystal, and use the mouse to draw a table inside your document: Lernen beginnen
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Free your mind from the constraints of conventionalism, clutch a crystal, and use the mouse to draw a table inside your document:
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Free your mind from the constraints of conventionalism, clutch a crystal, and use the mouse to draw a table inside your document: Lernen beginnen
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If you’ve used the Tab key to create rows and columns of text, you can quickly snap that part of your document into an official Word table. Lernen beginnen
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to move, or to move sth, into a particular position quickly, especially with a sudden sharp noise
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SYN. mixture; Word comes with an assortment of spiffy predefined tables Lernen beginnen
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a collection of different things or of different types of the same thing
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SYN. mixture; Word comes with an assortment of spiffy predefined tables Lernen beginnen
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attractive and fashionable
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To utterly remove the table from a document, text and all, heed these destruction directions: Lernen beginnen
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used to emphasize how complete sth is
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At some point, you may surrender the notion of needing a table. Lernen beginnen
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an idea, a belief or an understanding of sth
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Although a single cell can deftly handle vast quantities of text Lernen beginnen
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You can also perform math in tables, similar to what Excel does but without all the heartburn. Lernen beginnen
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a pain that feels like sth burning in your chest caused by indigestion
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It makes the cell formatting all funky. Lernen beginnen
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When the pointer is in the sweet spot, it changes to a downward-pointing arrow. Lernen beginnen
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a location or combination of characteristics that produces the best results
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You may need to add or remove a row or column, adjust the width or height, or otherwise fine-tune and format the table. Lernen beginnen
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to make very small changes to sth so that it is as good as it can possibly be
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Use the Split Cells dialog box to determine how to best mince up the cell. Lernen beginnen
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to cut food, especially meat, into very small pieces using a special machine
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Unless you want your table to look like it was made from hog wire, I recommend applying some table formatting. Lernen beginnen
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a pig, especially one that is kept and made fat for eating
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Rather than get bogged down with details, you should know that the spiffiest way to spruce up a table is to choose a preset format from the Table Styles gallery. Lernen beginnen
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to prevent sb from making progress in an activity.
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Rather than get bogged down with details, you should know that the spiffiest way to spruce up a table is to choose a preset format from the Table Styles gallery. Lernen beginnen
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to make sb/sth/yourself clean and neat
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position the mouse pointer at a thumbnail in the gallery to see a preview. Lernen beginnen
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a very small picture on a computer screen which shows you what a larger picture looks like, or what a page of a document will look like when you print it.
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If you choose that format, the borders vanish, and it makes working with the table more difficult. Lernen beginnen
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to disappear suddenly and/or in a way that you cannot explain
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The best way to stick a title or caption on a table is to use Word’s Insert Caption command Lernen beginnen
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to put sth in a place, especially quickly or carelessly
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The best way to stick a title or caption on a table is to use Word’s Insert Caption command. Lernen beginnen
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words that are printed underneath a picture, cartoon, etc. that explains or describe it.
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And if you think of rows of marching soldiers or rolling tanks, you’re a military buff Lernen beginnen
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..., so a typical sheet of paper can have up to 12 columns — not that such a layout would be appealing or anything. Lernen beginnen
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When you desire to impress someone with your word processing prowess, I suggest putting two columns on the page. Lernen beginnen
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If you create text after setting the number of columns, you see your scribblings flow down the left side of the page and then hop up to the upper right to start a new column. Lernen beginnen
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The space between columns is called the gutter. Word sets a gutter width at 0.5” (half an inch). Lernen beginnen
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SYN. keen; You might find Word overly eager to format a list for you. Lernen beginnen
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To choose a different bullet style, click the menu triangle next to the Bullets command. Lernen beginnen
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..., or you can concoct a numbering scheme by choosing the command Define New Number Format. Lernen beginnen
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As long as you use Tab and Shift+Tab to organize the topics, you don’t break the format, and the list stays intact. Lernen beginnen
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Unless you remember the trick about pressing Tab and Shift+Tab to format the list, things can get screwy. Lernen beginnen
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It’s sacrilege, of course. Word processing is about words. Lernen beginnen
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Images and words mix and mingle in the software realm of desktop publishing Lernen beginnen
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Images and words mix and mingle in the software realm of desktop publishing Lernen beginnen
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The door to Word’s graphical closet is found on the Insert tab Lernen beginnen
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liter, be littered with sth Your computer is most likely littered with picture files Lernen beginnen
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A nifty picture to stick at the end of a letter is your signature. Lernen beginnen
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Shapes need not be clunky, colorful distractions Lernen beginnen
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To slip a smidgen of text into a shape Lernen beginnen
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The image can float in front of the text, like some little kid pasted a sticker on the page. Lernen beginnen
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SYN. restrict; After choosing either Behind Text or In Front of Text, you see the image released from the confines of the text. Lernen beginnen
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It’s as if the image is linked or anchored to a specific paragraph, which helps keep the document’s graphics associated with the tidbit of text that references them. Lernen beginnen
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Then look for the Anchor icon, shown in the margin, next to a paragraph of text. To change paragraphs, drag this icon to another paragraph — hopefully, one that references the image. Lernen beginnen
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you can use the Height and Width controls to nudge the image size vertically or horizontally Lernen beginnen
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to push sb/sth gently or gradually in a particular direction
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In graphics lingo, cropping works like taking a pair of scissors to the image Lernen beginnen
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In graphics lingo, cropping works like taking a pair of scissors to the image Lernen beginnen
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to cut off part of a photograph or picture
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..., just as an angry, sullen teen would use shears to remove his cheating scumbag former girlfriend from a prom picture Lernen beginnen
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..., just as an angry, sullen teen would use shears to remove his cheating scumbag former girlfriend from a prom picture Lernen beginnen
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..., just as an angry, sullen teen would use shears to remove his cheating scumbag former girlfriend from a prom picture Lernen beginnen
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You have two handy ways to rotate an image, neither of which involves turning the computer’s monitor or craning your neck to the point of chiropractic necessity. Lernen beginnen
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to learn or stretch over sth in order to see sth better; to stretch your neck
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You have two handy ways to rotate an image, neither of which involves turning the computer’s monitor or craning your neck to the point of chiropractic necessity. Lernen beginnen
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the medical profession which involves treating some diseases and physical problems by pressing and moving the bones in a person's spine or joints.
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you can choose to rotate the image 90 degrees to the left or right or to flip the image horizontally or vertically. Lernen beginnen
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to turn over into a different position with a sudden quick movement; to make sth do this.
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To wash out a picture you placed behind the text, click the Color button and choose the Washout color from the Recolor area. Lernen beginnen
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to be removed from clothes by washing
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A slew of interesting, artistic brushstrokes and other effects are found on the aptly named Artistic Effects button menu. Lernen beginnen
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a large number or amount of sth
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Graphics are plunked down on a page one atop the other. Lernen beginnen
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to put sth down on sth, especially noisily or carelessly
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To change the order and shuffle images in front of or behind each other Lernen beginnen
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to move paper or things into different positions or a different order
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When you use smaller shapes to cobble together a complex image, use the Group command. Lernen beginnen
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to produce sth quickly and without great care or effort, so that it can be used but is not perfect
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