The remaining QuickFormat dialog box option is to format text as selected characters. Use QuickFormat to copy formatting and apply it to other text.

When you are finished, click the QuickFormat button again to turn off QuickFormat. With QuickFormat activated (the paint roller pointer), you can click and drag across all of the remaining headings in the document and complete the job in just seconds. Click and drag across the next heading to format it as the first.

When the QuickFormat dialog box appears (see Figure 2), choose OK to format the headings. The QuickFormat button is on the toolbar and looks like a paint roller.Ĭlick in the heading that you have already formatted, then click the QuickFormat button. Rather than repeating the same steps to format headings in a document, you can apply the formatting to one heading, then quickly copy it to the other headings. QuickFormat lets you click and drag to copy formatting from one section of text to another.

Select from more than 1,500 special characters, symbols and foreign lauguage alphabets in the Symbols dialog box. Click this button to open the Symbols dialog box (see Figure 1) where you can browse through and select from over 1,500 special characters, symbols and foreign language alphabets in 15 different character sets. You can select from this palette for one-click access to your most frequently-used foreign language letters and symbols.Īt the bottom of the palette is the More button. When you click this button, a palette appears with the last 16 special characters that you have used. The Snowflake is a button on the right side of the property bar (next to the Speller/Thesaurus box) that has a snowflake and a pound symbol on it. While there are literally hundreds of cool tips and tricks, these top ten hidden gems sparkled their way to the top of the list. Not that they are difficult to find, rather that WordPerfect is so crammed with features that they can elude even the most innately curious user. A person could work with WordPerfect for many years and still not locate all the nifty shortcuts and time-savers.

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