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WordTips (ribbon) for 5 September 2026

Removing Spaces before a Note Mark

If you have unwanted spaces before a footnote or endnote mark, you may want a way to quickly delete them. This tip provides three ways you can approach the issue.

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(Thanks to Michael Avidan (MVP), Cleveland Thornton, and Jacques Raubenheimer for contributing to this tip.)

Inconsistent Availability of Drag and Drop Editing

Some people really like the ability to drag and drop text as they edit. What do you do if the ability is only available part of the time? This tip looks at a few things you can check when dragging and dropping aren't working for you.

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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...

Controlling Automatic Indenting

Type a tab character and you might just find that Word adjusts the indentation of the entire paragraph. If you don't like Word making assumptions about indentation based how you use the tab key, then you can turn this feature off using the steps in this tip.

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Expanding Width of All Tables

If you have a lot of tables in your documents, you might want to change the width of all of them. You can take forever doing it manually, or you can apply the simple macro in this tip to make quick work of the task.

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Help Wanted

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Ensuring Table Rows Don't Split

I have a long document with dozens of tables, and several of the tables have rows that split awkwardly across pages. Is there a way to prevent rows from breaking across pages throughout the entire document without changing each table individually?
—Mike Peters (provide an answer for this Help Wanted question)

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