A Word about MS Word
(And All Word Processing Programs)

Over the past few years I have received documents from a variety of sources for a variety of reasons. Most of these documents have come to me as Microsoft Word documents. Most of the time I have converted these documents to HTML documents or PDF documents.

I mention all of this because I have come to the conclusion that many of you are using your word processing programs, and MS Word in particular, as a typewriter. Most everyone is still hitting the Enter key twice to double-space their paragraphs. People are still putting two spaces after a period. Come on folks. You or your institutions have spent several hundred of dollars for a word processing program. Let's start putting some of its features to use.

I have put together a Power Point presentation on how to format paragraphs. I've converted the presentation to a PDF document so you can view it. There is a command in one of the Acrobat Reader menus that will allow you to see the presentation in full screen mode.

Click here for the presentation.