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Word 2013: Better by Design

BY Jeffrey Roach
September 02, 2014

Hey, wanna know the one rule for a flat stomach? How about the secret $5 wrinkle buster? Spoiler: There is no one rule or $5 secret. But it must be part of the human condition to seek out quick solutions to thorny problems because people keep clicking these ads. This trickles into my little corner of the “teaching Office 2013″ world through a seemingly harmless question: Should I turn that off? “That” could be anything from Keep track of formatting to Prompt to update style. People will run up to me at a conference or after a speech and ask me things like whether they should turn off Set left- and first ' indent with tabs and backspaces . Although the details of the question change, my answer is always the same. I don't know, should you?

You can dramatically alter the usability of a product by tweaking the various options associated with each version of Microsoft Office ' but much like The Matrix, you can't be told whether or not something should be turned off, you have to be shown.

As part of an ongoing series, I will be walking you through a fresh, out-of-the-box installation of Office 2013 and demonstrating how minor changes to the design of the desktop can have a major impact on productivity. Word will likely command a disproportionate amount of time, since we have a long and colorful history of manipulating how it looks.

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