Adding to my ‘I didn’t know I could do that in Word!’ list, is this quick tip for jumping to a position a certain percentage into the document. This is a great time saver for very long documents, especially those where there are no (or few) headings in the navigation pane.

I’ve known for a long time that you can jump to a specific page (by entering its page number) or ...

In a forum, GM asked how to find a standard space used as a thousand separator between numbers (e.g. 23 456, 1 873, 658 924) and replace it with a thin non-breaking space (Unicode 2009), preserving the original numbers. The dilemma is that Word will only allow a Unicode symbol (^u2009) in the Find field, but NOT the Replace field.

Here’s what I came up with as a Wildca...

I needed to convert a lot of time ranges to total elapsed minutes for each range. With a start time of 9:00am and finish time of 10:30am, it’s pretty simple—an hour and a half is 90 mins. But when the time ranges were outside the usual 10 or 15 minute brackets you can calculate in your head (e.g. 9:23 to 11:04), it becomes tedious when you have to convert lots of them and err...

I had no idea you could do this—it would’ve saved me many comments to authors about using the correct units for the country where the document will be used (metric, in the case of Australia). In this 1-minute video, Hilary Cadman shows you how to set up Word so that you have a right-click option to automatically convert the values from one common unit type to another (e.g. 50...

I needed to grab hundreds (sometimes thousands) of files under many Windows subfolders, drag them all into another folder, then run some batch image processing on them all. All had unique filenames and all were JPGs. Part of the batch processing script was to reduce the grey background in each (allowing the black text to stand out better) and then to save them to another fold...