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Creating and saving Quick Parts

Creating and saving Quick Parts - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Creating and saving Quick Parts

We already learned in a previous lesson, how building blocks can save us time when constructing documents, using standard document parts, like cover pages, headers, footers, page numbering, text boxes, and so on. What about those non-standard parts, though, for example. As we work with this document called NO Home Recipes3, and scroll down to the bottom of page 1, we have an address block. Maybe that's something that we pop into a document on a regular basis. It'd be neat if we could just quickly access that from the ribbon. We can by creating our own building block called a quick part. So that's exactly what we're going to do, but first let's go to the Insert tab, and look at what you already have at your fingertips. In the Text section, you'll see a Quick Parts dropdown. Give it a click, and there's AutoText. Auto Text includes your name; your initials taken from the installation of Microsoft Word. If you've saved any document properties by going to the File tab, and saving who the…

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