Drop caps are a decorative touch, done through typographical means, that you can apply to your document. Drop caps are traditionally done with the first letter of a chapter or some other major section of a document.

To create drop caps, do the following :

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In other Word tips you learn that you can quickly and easily add borders around paragraphs of text. You can also add borders around words or characters within a paragraph. This is done by using some of the special field formatting capabilities of Word.

To add a border around text within a paragraph, follow these steps:

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Sometime you have problem to print documents. Seems you has a macro that you uses to print your documents in the order desired. If there are 10 or fewer documents, then they print fine. If there are 11 or more, the first 10 are background printed and the remaining chapters are foreground printed.

At first blush, this problem could seem to be a sorting problem. That is quickly dispelled, however, by realizing that if it were a sorting problem, document 10 would always print after document 1. Which leads to the most likely scenario: The documents are simply filling up the space allocated and/or available for the background printing queue used by Word. (This is completely a supposition; I could find no hard documentation on if there even was a space limitation on the queue.) In either case, the solution to the problem would be to simply turn off the background printing feature in the macro before beginning the print run. What does that mean?

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