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When creating Microsoft Word-based forms there may be a need to have a form field repeated throughout the whole document. For instance, with a company name, you may want this information repeated automatically throughout the document rather than manually entering the company name into every place it is needed. This helps greatly to ensure fewer errors and improves efficiency when users fill out the form.

In Word 2003 and prior this could be done by inserting a form field and then referencing it as a book mark. In that scenario, the designer of the form would add the field once ...
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There is a feature provided by MS Word that lets you create an Table of Contents for your Word document automatically.

To use this feature for other documents there are two steps involved,
1. Prepare your document for a table of contents (here you have to highlight which text
in your document will appear in the table of contents please read the rest of the article
to know how to do this.)
2. Insert the automatic table of contents in your document.
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Like many others, we try and discourage users from printing documents unnecessarily and instead send or share them electronically. However, this doesn't always work and documents are still printed.

With this simple solution, if the user tries to print, a dialog box immediately appears informing the user "This document cannot be printed" (or words of your choosing!) and the print command is cancelled.

You can prevent Word from printing a document by adding a small peice of code which will disable Ctrl+P, File > Print, ...
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Do you ever need to create a 20 page Word document for some testing purpose? Are you tired of copying & pasting old boring "lorem ipsum" text over and over again, increasing font size and line space in order to make the document 20+ pages long? Look no further! I will show you a small trick in Microsoft Word (2007 and above) to create a large test document with random text in less than 5 seconds, and then you can impress your colleague or your boss with this little secret trick.

Insert Lorem Ipsum Text:
1. Launch Microsoft Word 2007 (or above)
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I have an excel spreadsheet that contains names, departments and photo descriptions. I need to create several tables based on filtered data; e.g., department A contains 12 members, so the merge should create a table with 4 columns and 3 rows; department B contains 30 members so the merge should create a table with 4 columns and 8 rows, etc.
Each table cell should contain the name, department and photo description.
The data is currently in a SQL table, but I'm a SQL newbie (and in a hurry) so I thought it would be easier for me to create the tables using a merge process.
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If I type "blapify" and spell check (F7) it suggests I capitalize it. If I type "I want to blapify you", Word reports spell check has been completed successfully. I have tried a few suggestions found here and a complete reinstall. Nothing works.
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