Redo in microsoft word 2003

A thesaurus allows you to find different words that mean the same thing synonyms. MS Windows has a thesaurus built in. The window appears to the right of the text area. The Track Changes feature lets you see changes made in your document from the time it was created to the final draft.

But to use it, you must first turn it on. The Track Changes feature makes it easy to compare your first draft to the final product, but it also allows you to review the changes made when you send the document to someone else for revisions. This way you can reject the changes you don't like. You can also leave and review comments, which we'll talk about more a little later.

To undock the toolbar, click the dotted line at its far right and drag it into your document. You can also add or remove buttons on the toolbar, by clicking the toolbar options arrow on the left.

Click on this box to see your options. The example below is Final Showing Markup. It shows you to view all of the changes made as well as who made them. You can easily compare to the two versions. By default, when changes are made to a document, they are indicated by a color coding, and the type of change is shown in a balloon in the right margin. In this case, the words "sped up" were deleted, and the words "slowed down" were inserted.

A thin black line also appears in the left margin to let you know that a change was made to that particular sentence. A different color is given to every individual who edits the document.

This makes it easy to remember who made what changes. Two different people edited the example above. One is shown in blue, the other in red. Word applies these colors randomly, so you cannot choose a color to represent you.

However, it's important to remember that documents quickly get cluttered by additions, deletions and other changes. When you're also dealing with multiple editors, trying to make heads or tails of it all can be quite frustrating. Don't worry though. Those folks at Microsoft came up with a solution. They've given you the option of seeing all changes, or only certain kinds of changes. These include comments, insertions and deletions, changes made to formatting, etc. Let's say we only wanted to see changes made by a particular person.

To do that we'd, click the Show button in the Track Changes toolbar. Roll our mouse over Reviewers, and select the reviewer s we'd like to hide or reveal. A check mark next to a name means that person's changes will be visible. You can also select which balloons you want to see in the right margin or not to see them at all. In addition to seeing changes to a document, Word allows you to leave comments to other reviewers. Comments also appear in the right margin, are coded with the specific editor's color, and have the editor's initials in it.

Comments are further identified by shading. You can attach a comment to a particular word, to a particular place in the text, or to an entire paragraph. The text specified will be highlighted. To place a comment, select the text you want to associate the comment with and click the Insert Comment button in the Track Changes toolbar. The comment balloon will be active and the cursor will be blinking inside it. If the balloon is not active, just click inside of it.

Type your comment, then click anywhere outside of it to deactivate it. These are Previous , Next. You can also just scroll through the documents and click on a change or comment to select it. When a change is selected, it is highlighted. You can then choose to Accept it or Reject it.

A gray box appears with five small circles side-by-side. Click in the box to add short, descriptive text, such as "Enter send date. The people using the template will enter the text they want to repeat in the "Default text" box.

For now, keep that field blank, but enter a short, descriptive text string in the Bookmarks field at the bottom left of the dialog box no spaces or punctuation allowed. When you're done, click OK to close the dialog and return to the template. To have whatever text the authors enter in the text form field appear elsewhere in the document, add a cross-reference to the field wherever you want the repeated text to show up.

As I explained above, the company I work for needs the date that the authors enter on the first page to appear in the header of the second and all following pages of the document. The first step in adding such a cross-reference is to create a section break to prevent the header information from appearing on the first page of the document. Double-click in the header of the second page and uncheck Link to Previous. The Same as Previous tag will disappear.

In the Cross-reference dialog box, choose Bookmark in the Reference Type drop-down menu and select the bookmark you just created from the list of bookmarks that appears near the bottom of the window.

When they use the template to create a document, whatever text authors enter in the text form field on the first page will appear in the header of the second and subsequent pages or wherever you place the cross-reference.

Authors simply double-click the text field to open the Text Form Field Options dialog, enter the text they want to repeat in the "Default text" box, and click OK. After they save and reopen the document, that text will appear in the text box as well as all bookmarked locations in the document. To see what the text looks like right away, use the Print Preview option without actually printing the file. Repeating text automatically is trickier in Word and I fully expected the process of adding such cross-references to be easier in the newer versions of Word, but doing so actually requires several added steps in Word and Then, find out the Redo button in the toolbars.

Notice that when the Redo command has nothing left to redo, it changes functions and becomes the Repeat Typing command. Get the Redo button in the Quick Access Toolbar. Actually the Redo button stays in the QAT by default.