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2021 1227 Wordman Webinar Hero

Two Opportunities to Learn about Word’s Content Controls!

Training Update

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Posted December 27, 2021

Color Themes

MICROSOFT WORD: COLOR THEMES

Helpful Tips

Before you start writing that proposal, you need a good proposal template. Before you create that template, you need a Color Theme based on your corporate branding. Here’s how to create.... Visit Microsoft Word: Color Themes - SMAWins to read more! . . .

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Posted March 9, 2021

Training Update

Baachu Scribble is Hosting a Wordman Q&A Online Session - 20 November 2020

Training Update

There are a few seats left to register for the Friday morning, 20 November 2020 online Wordman Q&A Session at https://lnkd.in/g6z4v76. You are welcome to bring your questions to ask Wordman during the session. Baachu Scribble is hosting a Wordman Q&A Session: . . .

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Posted November 19, 2020

Helpful Tip

Microsoft Word: Diacritics

Helpful Tips, Training Update, Link

Need to insert a character with an accent into your Word document? Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you Word's existing shortcuts and how to set up your own Visit https://smawins.com/news/microsoft-word-diacritics/ to read . . .

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Posted September 22, 2020

Helpful Tips

Microsoft Word: Dummy Text

Helpful Tips, Training Update

If you want people to see how your new Word template will look with text, you'll need some easily-insertable dummy text. Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you how to do it. Read . . .

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Posted August 31, 2020

Wordman's Helpful Tips

Microsoft Teams vs. Microsoft Office: When Shortcut Keys Clash

Helpful Tips

Following an unexpected problem during a virtual training event using Microsoft Teams, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), examines when Teams keyboard shortcuts conflict with the app you're sharing... Read More about Microsoft Teams . . .

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Posted August 26, 2020

Helpful Tip

Microsoft Word: The Secret to Perfect Table Bullets

Helpful Tips, Training Update

In his latest article, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you how to make perfect bullets in Microsoft Word tables. Visit https://smawins.com/news/microsoft-word-perfect-table-bullets/ to read more! . . .

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Posted August 11, 2020

Wordman's Helpful Tips

Microsoft Word: Understanding the Paragraph Properties Mark

Helpful Tips, Training Update

Wordman (aka Dick Eassom CF APMP Fellow, SMA’s Vice President of Corporate Support) exposes the secrets behind Microsoft Word’s Paragraph Properties Mark and shows how you can easily check and compare formatting... Visit https://smawins.com/news/microsoft-word-paragraph-properties-mark/ to learn more! . . .

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Posted July 29, 2020

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Microsoft Word: Run-on Headings and More Using the Style Separator

Helpful Tips, Training Update, Link

The Style Separator is one of Microsoft Word’s best-kept little secrets. If you need to separate run-on headings from text in your table of contents, or separate figure titles from action captions in your table of figures, then you need . . .

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Posted July 13, 2020

Wordman's Helpful Tips

Microsoft Word: End-Of-Line Hyphenation

Helpful Tips, Training Update

End-of-line hyphenation can save space, especially in page-limited proposals, and Microsoft Word has excellent hyphenation tools. Here’s how to use them. Visit https://smawins.com/news/microsoft-word-hyphenation/ to continue reading! . . .

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Posted June 16, 2020

Scribble Talk 14 with Wordman

Scribble Talk Episode 14, Featuring Wordman

Consulting Update, Training Update, Uncategorized

A few weeks ago, Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, Vice President of Corporate Support, also known as Wordman, was interviewed by Ashley Kayes and Baskar Sundaram, for their ScribbleTalk podcast. In this episode, Ashley and Baskar probed Dick’s early life in United Kingdom, . . .

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Posted April 13, 2020

RFP Success Show Podcast Interviews Wordman

The RFP Success Show Talks to Wordman

Consulting Update, Training Update

“Wordman” Shares MS Word Tips and Techniques to Make Your Life Easier – with Dick Eassom- EP053 Last month, Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, Vice President of Corporate Support at SMA, Inc., was interviewed in his “Wordman” persona by Lisa Rehurek, . . .

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Posted October 1, 2019

Wordman's Helpful Tips

On the Virtual Desktop: organizing your screen space in Windows 10

Helpful Tips, Word Updates

How often do you find yourself working on a proposal, with Word, Outlook, and a couple of file explorer windows open, and then you have to change gear to work on another urgent project? You close all the windows, and . . .

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Posted February 20, 2017

Tips Ask

Wordman's Word Tips: It's Back!

Helpful Tips, Word Updates

SM&A sponsors Wordman's Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word's features, and how you can use them with your proposal or technical document development. In this article, "It's Back!," I provide a refresher on Word's style checker, recently . . .

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Posted February 17, 2017

Helpful Tips

Wordman's Word Tips: On the Virtual Desktop

Helpful Tips

SM&A sponsors Wordman's Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word's features, and how you can use them with your proposal or technical document development. In this article, "On the Virtual Desktop," I show how you can organize your . . .

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Posted January 21, 2017

Wordman's Helpful Tip

It’s Back! Checking your grammar AND style in Word

Helpful Tips, Training Update

In Microsoft Word’s proofing options, in addition to checking your spelling as you type, you could also select to check your grammar, and your “style.” In this case, “style” refers to your use of capitalization, passive sentences, etc. While writing . . .

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Posted January 17, 2017

Thank you

California-APMP Chapter

Content Update, Uncategorized, Aside

I am proud to have been elected Chair of the California-APMP Chapter of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP®) for 2017–2018, and I am looking forward to working with the chapter Board of Directors to deliver benefits to our . . .

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Posted January 5, 2017

Office Update

Wordman's Word Tips: A Space Odyssey

Content Update, Helpful Tips

SM&A is now sponsoring Wordman's Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word's features, and how you can use them with your proposal or technical document development. In my first article, "A Space Odyssey," I look into Microsoft Word’s . . .

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Posted December 12, 2016

Wordman's Art Tables

New Art Tables!

Product Update

Wordman's Art Tables has been updated! New features include Update Fields, which updates all the fields in your document, including fields in headers, footers and text boxes! If you are an existing user, simply download the new version and replace your . . .

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Posted September 11, 2016

Wordman’s TableSort for PowerPoint

PowerPoint table sort (free!)

Product Update

Fed up with sorting PowerPoint tables by pasting into Excel, sorting, pasting back into PowerPoint and reformatting? Wordman's Table Sort for PowerPoint finally provides the missing table sort function in PowerPoint, with up to three levels of sort, and provision for . . .

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Posted August 22, 2015

Training Update

Wordman on APMP TV!

Training Update

At the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Bid & Proposal Con in Chicago in 2014, I presented "Start to Finish: from Blank Word Document to Proposal Template". This was recorded and is now available on the APMP TV website. . . .

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Posted August 3, 2015

Thank you

Thank you! #APMP2015

Training Update, Word Updates

A big thank you to all the attendees at my presentation, "Start to Finish: From Blank Word Document to Proposal Template," at the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Bid & Proposal Con in Seattle last week. #APMP2015 You filled the . . .

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Posted May 31, 2015

Wordman's Hiliter Artwork

Windows 8 Hiliter Update

Product Update

Wordman's Hiliter is now compatible with Windows 8. Download the latest version here. . . .

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Posted April 29, 2015

Wordman’s Acroliter

Windows 8 Acroliter Update

Product Update, Training Update

Wordman's Acroliter is now compatible with Windows 8. Download the latest version here. . . .

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Posted April 29, 2015

Helpful

No more Google Merchant

Uncategorized

Dear Friends of Wordman I'm sorry to have to remove Google Merchant as a method of payment in Wordman's Store, due to Google shutting down this service. You can still use PayPal to purchase Wordman's Add-ins, or contact me if you . . .

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Posted September 16, 2013

Office Update

Office 2010 SP2

Helpful Tips, Word Updates

If you're using Microsoft Office 2010, make sure you download Service Pack 2! For more details, see support.microsoft.com/kb/2687455. Included in the changes are the following bug fixes for Microsoft Word: "Fixes issues regarding bookmarks, fields, track changes, templates, tables, object wrapping, autocorrect options, . . .

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Posted August 14, 2013

Helpful Tips

Wordman on Facebook

Helpful Tips

Do you follow Wordman on Facebook? I post useful tips and links to useful websites regularly, especially websites that offer free stuff! Go to Wordman's Facebook page, and click LIKE! . . .

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Posted July 11, 2013

Wordman's Rextractor

Wordman's Rextractor Bug Fix

Product Update

Thanks to user feedback, I just fixed a bug in Wordman's Rextractor. A new version is now available on the Wordman's Rextractor home page ... . . .

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Posted July 8, 2013

Wordman's Acrogen

New Wordman's Acrogen!

Product Update

There is another new version of Wordman's Acrogen, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, available in the Store. This new version not only allows you to create a formatted abbreviation list, ready to submit with your proposal, but . . .

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Posted June 16, 2013

Wordman's Hiliter Artwork

New Wordman's Hiliter!

Product Update

There is a new version of Wordman's Hiliter, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, available in the Store. This new version highlights target words and phrases not just in the main body of the document but in headers, . . .

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Posted June 2, 2013

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