Summary:
Enter false text | 04 mins
Direct mail part1 | 30 min
Direct mail part2 | 15 min
Hierarchisation of Securities | 06 min
Edit Styles | 05 min
Automatic Summary | 09 min
Summary styles | 03 min
Custom Numbering of Pages | 05 min
Interactive PDF with Contents | 02 min
How to quickly enter fake text in Microsoft Word. Unknown principle in this word processing software, we have the possibility to include Lorem Ipsum on the fly in our documents.
There are 2 possibilities for this:
- first way to do it, enter =lorem() in our page. Note that you can specify numbers in the parentheses corresponding to the number of paragraphs and the number of lines desired.
- Second way to do this, enter = rand () in our page. rand from random. This time we obtain a random text whose language corresponds to the language of the software.
How to carry out the procedure to create personalized letters?
Part XNUMX of a series of videos dedicated to mail merge in Word.
We see how to connect his letter type with a database Excel. How to filter and sort this database in order to write only to certain people.
Then we insert the variables (the fields) within our Word document.
We see together the thorny case of dates during an OLE DB connection that Word makes by default. We need to change the Anglo/Saxon format to European format. But also work on the format of the encrypted elements to obtain a monetary display.
We can then perform the fusion to generate the creation of all of our personalized letters.
We explain the procedure to be carried out in order to generate personalized envelopes and labels during a Microsoft Word mail merge.
Part XNUMX of the Direct Mail in Word video series.
From a blank document, a mail merge is launched to create the correct file format.
Then we insert the fields in the right slots provided for this purpose. Be careful when creating labels, we only create the first label of our board and then we update. The “Next Record” code allows us to choose the number of labels per record that we want on the sheet.
We end with the merge in order to generate as many pages as there were records in our Excel database.
How to quickly format your titles in a Microsoft Word document so that you can create a table of contents later.
The numbering or prioritization of the major points of our Word document can sometimes be a real headache. However, by using the title models already present in the software, it is possible to do this very easily.
The first step is to choose the numbering style associated with the heading styles. Then we will have to inform Word of the different titles within our document (title1, title2…).
This essential step for all good reports, theses or dissertations is the prelude to the generation of an automatic summary.
After having created the summary automatically we see together how to modify the styles of the table of contents.
Indeed, the generation of the summary gave Word the opportunity to create new predefined styles such as TM1 or TM2, for level 1 table of contents.
These styles update automatically by default. what it does is that we only have to select the correct paragraphs and make local changes in the document.
These modifications can be saved in our style set if we want to use this scheme in other files.
We carry out a personalized numbering from page 3 of our document, passing the first pages.
How to number the pages of a Word document without numbering the cover page or the table of contents.
- For that we absolutely need a section break between the page which must begin our numbering and the previous page.
- Then by placing oneself in the footer of the page which begins our numbers one must deactivate the button “linked to the previous one”.
- In page number we will first choose to format the numbers to tell it to start at 1.
- And we can then insert the number at the bottom of the page with the model we want.
How to generate an interactive or tagged PDF from a Word file containing an automatic summary.
Everything happens when saving our file. When you choose to build a PDF type file, you can go to the recording options to check the box: create bookmarks from Word titles.
In the end, we obtain a PDF file with the possibility of clicking on the button in the form of a bookmark which presents the summary in the form of an interactive link.