How to Create a Word Cloud in MS Word

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A word cloud is a fun way to present a list of words or sentences artistically. It presents them inside an image or a cloud outline. The words may appear in different sizes, colors, and angles, but they follow a simple rule. The size of the letters shows their frequency of use. If the words appear repeatedly, the word cloud shows them in a larger size.

You can create your own word cloud in an MS Word document.

3 methods to create a word cloud in MS Word

  • Using Basic Shapes
  • Using Add-In Apps
  • Using On-Line Apps

We will show you the above methods in simple step-by-step instructions.

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How to Create a Word Cloud in PowerPoint

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A word cloud is an image outline filled with different words. The words in the word cloud can be of different fonts, sizes, colors, and shapes. In a PowerPoint slide, a word cloud can be a strong image builder. 

You can make important words bold and large so that they stand out to convey the most important message.

4 methods to create a Word Cloud in Powerpoint

  • Manually
  • With Word Art
  • With Word Cloud Generator
  • With Pro Word Cloud

Let us show you all the ways of creating a word cloud in simple, step-by-step instructions.

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How to Remove All Content Controls in MS Word

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Under certain circumstances, you may want to remove all content controls in a Microsoft Word document. But you want to keep the content intact. This may be because you want to keep a simple form of the document.

Unfortunately, MS Word does not provide a simple way of removing all content controls in one step.

2 ways to remove All Content controls in MS Word

  • Reverting to an older form of Microsoft Word.
  • Remove content controls one by one.

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How to Add Content Control in MS Word

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Content Control in MS Word is a way to protect areas of your document, and allow users to only change specific areas.

You can reserve certain areas in a Word document for content control. For instance, you can bind a reserved region with a text box. This way, you can allow these reserved regions to act as containers. 

For instance, you may have forms with reserved regions where the user can fill in their data. By binding and labeling these regions, you can specify the content that will go into the region.

How to add content control in MS Word

  • Turn on Developer Mode for adding a content control
  • Add content control
  • Edit content control
  • Remove content control

We will show you how to do the above in easy, step-by-step instructions.

Before following these steps, we encourage you to first read this article:

How to Create Fillable Forms in MS Word.

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How to Assign Tasks to Others in Google Docs

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You can share a document with others in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. You can also mention someone and call their attention to some details in the document. It is also possible to assign tasks to others when sharing the document.

When you share a document with someone, you can assign an action item to them. They will receive an email notification. Once they complete the action, they can mark the item as complete.

We will show you in simple steps how to assign tasks to others when sharing in Google Docs.

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How to Create a Fillable Form in MS Word

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We will show you how to create a simple fillable form in MS Word. This is perfect when you want to send out a survey or a competition. 

Here, we will explain how to lock certain parts of the form so that users cannot change them. Other parts of the form will have restrictions to allow what the user can fill in. We will use content control for this fillable form.

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How to Insert Roman Numerals in Google Docs

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It is uncommon to use Roman numerals in documents. But when writing a thesis, you must use Roman numerals. You may also use Roman numerals:

  • As a special character
  • As a numbered list
  • As page numbers

We will show you how to insert Roman numerals in Google Docs in easy, step-by-step instructions.

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How to Delete a Text Box in a Google Slide

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Sometimes you may want to delete a text box in your Google Slides presentation. This tutorial shows you how to delete a text box in Google Slides.

3 Steps to delete a Text Box in a Google Slides Presentation:

  • Open your Google Slides presentation 
  • Select the text box you want to delete
  • Delete the text box

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How to Add Custom Fonts to a Google Slide

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If you want to add custom fonts to Google Slides, you will have to use this workaround. Google Slides does not allow the manual addition, uploading, or embedding of custom fonts.

Custom fonts are usually purchased or designed by the user. This tutorial shows a method you can use as a workaround to add custom fonts to Google Slides. Especially for the heading text.

2 Steps to adding custom fonts to Google Slides:

  • Generate a text image using a third-party font site
  • Insert the text image in Google Slide

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How to Insert a GIF in a Google Slide

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You can captivate your audience by adding GIFs to your Google Slides presentation. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It is a bitmap file format designed to display simple images and animations. This tutorial shows you how to insert an animated GIF in a Google Slide. 

4  Steps to insert a GIF in a Google Slide presentation:

  • Open your Google Slide presentation
  • Insert a GIF 
  • Position and resize the GIF
  • Set the GIF format options

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