Numerous times I have run into the dilemma of which way to spell "canceled." Or is it "cancelled?" Well I can now put my mind at ease and so can you. We can thank Noah Webster (sound familiar?) for the conundrum of how to spell this and many other words. Webster is usually credited with creating American spellings that have fewer letters than British spellings such as color and flavor, and canceled is the recommended spelling in a Webster's 1898 dictionary, but this Ngram appears to show that canceled only overtook cancelled in American books in the early 1980s. Read more here.

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Bloomberg Business recently published an article titled "Your Email Font is Ruining Your Life." It provides thoughtful insight as to why font type is important, in this case, when composing email. It may seem like an insignificant detail, yet certain fonts are designed for specific viewing mediums.

On a related note, check out our blog article published on 7/24/2014 which delves further into why font type is important.

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Do you ever have a heading or line of text where tHe caPItal leTTerS are in the wrong place? There is a simple way to correct this.

Under the "File" tab in Word, click the drop-down in the Font section as shown. Here you can choose the kind of capitalization you want to change your selected text to.


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Ever wonder what that "Widow/Orphan control" option is in Word (it is turned on by default)? According to The Chicago Manual of Style:


Widow

• A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
  

Orphan

• A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column.
• A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.

Or­phans are moved to the next page with the rest of the para­graph. For wid­ows, lines are moved from the bot­tom of one page to the top of the next.

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The principles in this article can also be applied when creating PowerPoint presentations. 

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It may seem like a small detail, but effective typography helps your readers easily navigate the content and identify key pieces of information.

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Did you know? The dot on top of lowercase letters "i" and "j" is called a "tittle."

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Did you know? The proper way to insert a caption in Word is to use the "Insert Caption" tool under the "References" tab. This allows the caption to be cross-referenced and also allows you to generate an automated Table of Figures.

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Did you know you can preview a PowerPoint presentation in both color, black and white, and grayscale? This is excellent for previewing how your colors will appear (or not appear) should you only have a black and white copier at your disposal. Click the "View" tab to see the three options. 

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The "track changes" tool in Word is an incredible tool to, well, track the changes one or multiple authors makes to a document. However, if you need to copy those changes from one document to another, a simple copy and paste will not preserve the track changes. Yet there is a simple command to do this. 

• Select the text with the track changes you would like to copy
  
• Type Ctrl+F3 to copy
  
• Type Ctrl+Shift+F3 to paste it into the other document

You will see that all of your track changes have been preserved.

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