A Glance To Use The Status Bar In Word

A Glance To Use The Status Bar In Word

In this article, we're explaining you the options of Status Bar and how to customize it to best suit the way you work and improve your productivity.

The Status Bar, for MS Word, is available at the bottom of the word document window, which displays the information of your document, such as what page you are currently viewing, how many words are in your document, whether any proofing errors were found and etc.,

 

The Status Bar can be easily customized by adding more information to or removing information from it.

To do this, right-click anywhere on the Status Bar. Items that have check marks next to them display on the Status Bar. These items may not display at all times, depending on the current circumstances. For instance, if you’re not sharing the document with other authors, “Number of Authors Editing” will not display on the Status Bar even if you have selected it in the “Customize Status Bar” popup menu.

Additional information, regarding different parts, of your document displays in the Status Bar. For instance, when hover your mouse over a hyperlink ...... 

....... the URL to the hyperlink will be displayed in the Status Bar.

Further, if you copy and paste the content from a webpage onto a Word document, then you hover your mouse over that pasted image, the URL for that image will also be displayed in the Status Bar.

NOTE: You can press “Ctrl” and click on a hyperlink to open the link in a browser window and also avoid automatically creating hyperlinks.

The icons on right side of the Status Bar provide information such as Print Layout, Full Screen Reading, Web Layout, Outline or Draft and the Zoom Level as they allow you to change, how you are using Word. 

Windows: How To Get & Use Special Characters

(215) Windows: How To Get & Use Special Characters

Many special characters (those not on the standard computer keyboard) are useful, and sometimes necessary to our work. This article describes few methods to get and entering such characters.

The character map in Windows is a feature that can help us to insert the required special characters to our work. 

 

To access the Character Map in Vista or Windows 7, just click on START and type character map into the search box then press Enter.

Choose the font, which matches to your work, then choose the special character you want to use.

Now, just paste the character into your form, or whatever application you likely to use.

 

An another way to navigate the same through Start Menu. 

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map.

Here's a quick way to pull it up is just type charmap or charmap.exe into the Run box. This feature may help to those new to Windows or perhaps some users, who have forgotten it.