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WordTips (ribbon) for 6 December 2025

Copying Tables to a New Document

Tables are a great way to organize information in a document. For some editing needs, you may want to create a new document that contains nothing but tables from a different document. This tip discusses two ways that you can easily copy tables from one document to another, new document.

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(Thanks to Michael Avidan (MVP) and Dave Sheppard for contributing to this tip.)

Applying Bold Italics

Applying bold and italics formatting to text is easy in Word. If you want to apply bold and italics simultaneously, you can create a tool to handle this formatting easily.

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Macros! Macros! Get Your Macros Here!

WordTips: The Macros has all the information that you are ever going to need to help you learn the best ways to create and effectively use macros for Microsoft Word. Discover how powerful macros really are and how you can use them to make Word do your bidding. Get your macros here...

Default Envelope Margins

When you create envelopes in Word, you may want to adjust where the return address and main address are printed. Doing so is not as easy as you might desire, but it can be done.

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Detecting an Open Dialog Box

Macros can be used to perform all sorts of tasks within Word. Some tasks can even occur at whatever time interval you desire. If there is a dialog box open when your macro tries to run, however, it could cause problems for your code.

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(Thanks to Peter Tanner for contributing to this tip.)

WordTips YouTube Channel

Do you like to learn visually? Make sure you check out the WordTips YouTube channel. New videos are added weekly. (I typically try to add them on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)

New video: Copying Found Items to a New Document
Word allows you to use its searching capabilities to easily find multiple items in a document. What if you want to copy all those found items to a different document? Here are some techniques you can use.

New video: Accept All Changes by a Reviewer
The Track Changes feature in Word allows you and other editors to easily collaborate on the development of a document. If you want to accept all the changes made by one particular editor, follow the steps in this Quick Tip.

Help Wanted

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Adjusting Location of a Heading Code in a TOC

I have a lengthy document (130 pages) where each page has a heading that appears in the TOC. I'd like to insert a three-character code in each heading that will appear in the TOC immediately to the left of the right-justified page number. I've not been able to achieve this and would live to find a solution.
—Lindsay Graham (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)

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