Tuesday, June 30, 2015

How to add sections in MS Word


  1. Place cursor at the end of the page after which you wish to add a new section. Please remember, a MS Word doc always has one default section. Here we will add the second one.
  2. Click Page Layout and click Breaks
  3. Select Next Page. The cursor automatically gets places at a new page which is a new section
  4. You can check by seeing header or footer which will have numbering as Header-Section 2, Header Section 1 and so on

How to copy styles from one document to other in MS Word


  1. Click File.
  2. Click Options.
  3. Click Customize Ribbon.
  4. Select Main Tabs from Choose commands from drop down box.
  5. Select Developer.
  6. Click Add.
  7. Click Ok.
  8. Open Developer Tab from the Ribbon.
  9. Click Document Template.
  10. Click Organizer.
  11. Click Close File from the right side.
  12. Click Open File from the right side. A file open dialogue box will appear.
  13. Select All Word Documents from the File Type drop down box near Open button. All the documents will now appear in the main box from where you can select the document which has the style(s) you want in current document.
  14. Select the source document and click Open and all the styles in source document get listed in the right side box of the Organizer.
  15. Select one or more styles from the right side box and and click Copy. You may need to overwrite some styles.
  16. Click Close at the bottom-right.
  17. Notice that the copied styles are there in your Style box.
  18. Apply and enjoy.

If you want to use all styles of a MS Word document in other, better save the document as a blank document and get going. This method in particular is useful when you want to use some styles from other document.


Prashant V Shrivastava

How to link Header with H1 Style in MS Word

  1. Click Insert Tab from the MS word ribbon.
  2. Click Header.
  3. Click Edit Header.
  4. Click Quick Parts.
  5. Select Field.
  6. Select StyleRef from the Field name box.
  7. Select the Header 1 style from the Style name box.
  8. Click Ok.

All your H1 headings will begin from a new page and the heading will automatically get inserted at the Header where you had kept cursor in the step 3.


Prashant V Shrivastava