Introduction
Goals
This help system is intended as a reference to assist you when you get stuck, or as a guide to inspire faster ways of working, or simply as a knowledge base outlining the foundations on which the template has been built.
Formatting conventions used in the documentation
Buttons, tabs or links—stuff you click that triggers an action—are bolded. Menu commands—objects you select that may or may not trigger an action—are italicized.
For example you would click an OK button, but you might select Don’t show ScreenTips from a popup, or drop-down menu.
When there is a hierarchical method for getting to an object, we will use right-facing brackets. For example, to get to the above popup menu, you need to go to File tab > Options > General.
Keyboard combinations will follow Word’s tool-tips style of adding a plus (+) sign between keys to indicate that the keys are pressed at more or less the same time. Alt, Ctrl and Shift are modifier keys and should be pressed first, followed by the command key. It’s the same basic idea behind typing a capital letter on a keyboard, except there are more modifier keys.
For example, to invoke the Styles pane, you would press Alt and Ctrl and Shift, then, while holding those down, press S (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S).
Note: Some of the screen-captured illustrations may look different than what you’re used to seeing if you’re using versions of Word prior to Office 2013.