Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to add page numbers into Word?
2. How to add a hyperlink for a website in a document?
3. How do I make a table of contents?
4. I try to delete a Word document but I can't delete it.
What is going on?
5. I have a chart from Excel I want to include in my Word document.
How can I do this?
6. How to reduce the size of a picture?
7. When I print something, the watermark is printed properly.
What can I do?
8. I want to add new words into spell check,
how can I do this?
9. How can I change the default font?
10. How can I convert text into a table?
1. How to add page numbers into Word?

On the insert tab, click on Page Number, set the positions (like Top of Page),
and click the style of page numbers that you want.

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2. How to add a hyperlink for a website in a document?

Select the text you want to make a hyperlink, right-click and select hyperlink,
then click on "Existing File or WebPage" and type in the website address in the address box.

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3. How do I make a table of contents?

Apply Heading 1 and Heading 2 style to text that you wish to be in the table of contents.
Go to the Reference tab, click Table of Contents and click on Automatic table (makes table of content
based on Heading 1 and Heading 2 sentences and can automatically update. You can choose manual table of contents
but it will place placeholder text and it will not automatically update.)

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4. I try to delete a Word document but I can't delete it.
What is going on?

You can't delete if Word is still running with the file you want to close or
if the temp folder still has the document, because it believes that the document is still opened and therefore also believes that
when that Word document is opened, WOrd is the only one that can change anything with the document.

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5. I have a chart from Excel I want to include in my Word document.
How can I do this?

First click copy, right-click or press Ctrl+C on the Excel chart, then click the Home tab in Word
and click on Paste Special and you choose to paste the chart as a picture or as a Excel chart.

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6. How to reduce the size of a picture?

Click on the picture you want to reduce the size, click on Picture Tools(Format), and click Compress Picture. You check
Apply only to this picture, if you just want to compress that one picture, and set the resolution in Target output.
Note: Quality of the picture will obviously be reduced if you do this.

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7. When I print something, the watermark is printed properly.
What can I do?

Go to the Insert tab, then go to Edit Header, right click on the header and go to Format.
Set Transparency to 0.

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8. I want to add new words into spell check,
how can I do this?

Go to the File tab, click on Options, click on Proofing and click on Customer Dictionaries. Select the dictionary to edit and
click on Edit Word List, type the word you want in the text box and click Add.

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9. How can I change the default font?

Go to the Home tab and click on the FontDialog Box launcher. Set the font and the size that you want, click on Set As Default
and click All documents based on the Normal.dotm template to set the font for all documents.

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10. How can I convert text into a table?

Divide the text with separator by putting separator characters like commas or tabs
(enable paragraph marks to see tabs). Go to Insert tab, Table and Convert Text to Table.
Set the desired table options and click OK.

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