I found this ‘commitment statement’ printed on the wall of a management office, and thought it would be a good real-world example for this centered text topic. Let’s have a look: This is a classic case of simply letting text fall where the (arbitrary) margins dictate. The basic approach is to just fill the space: […]
This may seem more obvious to some than others, but if you’ve only used the “Find and Replace” feature for words, you may be missing out. Any time you come across a case of needing to repeat some corrective formatting more than a few times, it could be an opportunity to automate the process. Maybe […]
When you create a table, whether using a web app, Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, or even Adobe InDesign, the default is usually a black line around every cell, and little to no space around the content in that cell. That should hardly ever be the end of the process. The defaults have faults In MS Office, […]
In Microsoft Office text formatting, and more Here’s a tip that apparently not enough people know (or too easily forget). It applies to most any application that formats text, particularly in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint text formatting, and it has a number of uses. If you want to force a line of text to wrap—that is, to start on the […]