Video Collections

As part of the information that I create for the WordTips website and newsletter, I also create videos that end up on the WordTips YouTube channel. I generally publish two videos each week, presenting “how to” information for working with Microsoft Word.

Every year I compile all of the videos published during the last year into what I call a WordTips Videos Collection.

A WordTips Videos Collection is more than a simple compilation, however. Every video has been re-mastered into a high-quality HD format. Those familiar with YouTube videos understand there is very often a “call to action,” which involves inviting viewers to like the video and subscribe to the channel. During the re-mastering, the “call to action” is also removed from each video, allowing them to stand on their own as a valuable video lesson.

Plus, every WordTips Videos Collection includes a very handy e-book that provides a lightly edited transcript for each video, plus everything is organized by topic. The transcripts are provided in both Word and PDF formats, so they are easy to read, easy to search, and easy to use as an index to the actual videos.

 

A Sample Video

To give you a taste for how I present information in the videos in this collection, I want to share one of them with you. Below is a video entitled “Editing with the Spike,” in which you discover how to access a rather esoteric editing tool within the program. (Hint: You may want to maximize the video so it fills your screen. I often find this helpful when viewing how-to videos.)

I hope that gives you an idea of how I present material—I try to be clear, concise, and complete when discussing any particular topic.

 

YouTube? Really?

YouTube is a great platform for presenting information, but there are drawbacks. Everyone who uses YouTube is familiar with how difficult it is to find information, the fact that you are interrupted by advertisements (sometimes quite often), and the quality of the video streaming is dependent on factors often out of your control.

Those drawbacks are the reason I make the WordTips Videos Collections available. Each collection puts the videos in your personal reference library, doesn’t require you to be online, is free of advertisements, and is organized in ways very difficult on YouTube. Plus, because you receive the collection on a USB 3.2 flash drive, the videos are yours to view as often as you want, in any way that you want.

 

Categories and Titles

There are currently two WordTips Videos Collections available—one for 2024 and one for 2025. The videos in each collection are organized by topic. Here is a complete listing of all the videos available in each collection:

2024 Collection

2025 Collection

General Controlling Space between Body Text and Footer Text Selecting an Entire Paragraph Viewing Document Statistics Creating and Printing Summary Info Navigating Your Document Using an Outline Jumping around Your Document How Word Treats Footnotes that Break Over Two Pages Grab a List of Filenames Configuration Starting with a Blank Document Turning Off ScreenTips Controlling Automatic Indenting Hiding Highlighting Turning Off Paste Options Editing Putting the Click and Type Feature to Work Automatically Selecting Words Understanding Smart Cut and Paste Using the Mouse to Move or Copy Text Copying and Moving without the Clipboard Editing with the Spike Understanding and Creating Hyphens and Dashes Inserting a Nonbreaking Hyphen Inserting a Boatload of Symbols Being Smart about Smart Quotes Inserting the Date Adding a Bullet in Your Text Deleting a Range of Pages Quickly Deleting Words Find and Replace Searching for Special Characters Searching for Paragraph Formatting Searching for Text without a Format Counting a Particular Word Formatting Using the Format Painter 3 Quick Ways to Change Font Sizes 3 Quick Ways to Display the Font Dialog Box Format Characters Fast Adjusting Character Width Supercharging Your Underlines The Line that Won’t Go Away Fixing Funky Spacing between Words Precise Ruler Adjustments Preventing Straggling Headings Creating a Hanging Indent Understanding and Creating Lists How to Skip Numbering Spacing Before and After Lists Hidden Text: A Handy Text Attribute with Potential Gotchas Create a Shortcut Key for Strikethrough One Little Change Changes Everything Adding Line Numbers Formatting Line Numbers Adding a Watermark Working with Watermarks Creating a Drop Cap Changing Outline Heading Levels 2 Easy Ways to Add a Cover Page Setting the Distance between Text and Borders Tab Stops Changing Tab Stops Using the Ruler Using Leaders with Tab Stops Deleting All Tab Stops Resetting Tab Stops to the Default Tables 3 Handy Ways to Create Tables Selecting Table Rows and Columns Moving Table Rows and Columns Adding and Deleting Table Rows and Columns Repeat Rows in a Table Indenting a Table Merging and Splitting Table Cells Create a Table with Column Widths You Want Splitting a Table Deleting Table Cells Creating a Table Using the Keyboard Fitting Text in a Table Cell Adding Blank Lines before Tables Getting Rid of Trailing Spaces in Table Cells Adjusting Row Height Exactly Quickly Removing Table Borders Changing Text Direction in a Table Cell Clearing Table Contents Entering Tabs in a Table Graphics Adding and Working with Graphics Using Object Anchors Vertical Alignment of an Inline Graphic Adjusting the Vertical Position of an Inline Graphic Flow Text between Text Boxes Fields Adding and Using a Document Title and Subject Inserting the Document’s Subject Inserting the Number of Document Characters Inserting the Page Count Inserting the Date Last Saved Enclosing Characters in a Shape Numbering Things in Your Document Inserting the User’s Address Spelling Out Page Numbers Printing Printing a Short Selection Printing Multiple Pages Per Sheet Preview before Printing Printing Portions of Mail Merged Documents Tools Using Track Changes Getting Rid of Tracked Formatting Changes Building a Document with Blocks Sorting All Sorts of Text Sorting by Heading The Bane of Correctly Repeated Words Hiding Spelling Errors

General Viewing the Entire Document Width Missing Top and Bottom Margins Hiding and Displaying Scroll Bars Using Focus Mode Where is the Current Document? Dealing with a Corrupt Document Opening a Template File Changing the Template Document Properties and Information Jumping to a Relative Line Number Embedding a Phone Number in a Document Generating a Shortcut Key List Creating Accessible Documents Configuration Setting User Information Changing the Default Document Format Resetting All Shortcut Keys Punctuation Marks that Don’t End Sentences Editing 3 Quick Ways to Generate Meaningless Text Arranging Paragraphs Selecting an Entire Section Copying, Moving, and Deleting Comments Using Overtype Mode Replacing Text Selections Inserting a Copyright Symbol Convert Automatic Numbering to Manual Editing Headers and Footers Positioning Headers and Footers Calculating Average Word Length Find and Replace Using Search Text in the Replacement Finding Camel-Case Words Searching for Note Marks Finding Missing Spaces before Numbers Copying Found Items to a New Document Formatting Understanding Justification Adjust a Paragraph’s Indent FAST Quick and Easy Indents and Tabs Adjusting Spacing after a Paragraph Forcing a Page Break before a Paragraph Making All Lines the Same Height Adjusting Kerning Using Manual Line Breaks with Justified Paragraphs Using Very Large Font Sizes Getting a Double-Spaced Printout Triple-Space Your Document Highlight Your Text Unwanted Headings Controlling Widows and Orphans Formatting Entire Words Changing the Bullet Type Removing a Multilevel List Using Two Characters as a Drop Cap Vertical Alignment of a Section Changing the Starting Page Number Adjusting Bottoms of Pages Changing the Number of Columns in the Middle of a Document Changing the Style Gallery Footnotes and Endnotes Deleting All Footnotes Converting Footnotes and Endnotes Converting Individual Footnotes and Endnotes Jumping to a Relative Endnote Tables Drawing a Table Can Be Fun! Quickly Moving a Table Aligning Tables Resizing a Table AutoFitting Tables Jumping to Tables Automatic Initial Caps in a Table Distributing Table Rows Evenly Changing Cell Alignment Centering Information in Table Cells Control Spacing between Cells Control the Space between Cell Borders and Cell Contents Stop a Table Row from Splitting Over Two Pages Graphics Inserting a Text Box Resizing a Text Box Changing a Shape Cropping Graphics Grouping Drawing Objects Using the Drawing Grid Fields Displaying Field Codes Inserting the Creation Date Inserting the User’s Name Inserting the Name of the Last Person to Save the Document Create an Array with Fields Printing Printing Close to the Edge Reversing Print Order Print the Pages You Want Printing a Document Draft Using Background Printing Printing Return Address Labels Tools Spell Checking Not Catching a Misspelled Word How to Check WORDS IN ALL CAPS Configuring Spell-check for Internet Addresses Hiding Grammar Errors Store Common Addresses in Building Blocks Changing what AutoCorrect Corrects Capitalizing Day Names Sentence Capitalization Exceptions Working with Bookmarks Advanced TOC Techniques Working with Document Statistics and Readability Accept All Changes by a Reviewer Make Changes and Comments Anonymous Hyphenating Your Document Hyphenating a Selection

The WordTips Videos 2024 Collection includes 104 videos (over 8 hours) and the WordTips Videos 2025 Collection has 105 videos (7 hours). These valuable videos can help you understand and use Word better than ever!

 

What You Get

If you choose to purchase a WordTips Videos Collection, I send to to you on a USB 3.2 flash drive that contains all the videos and the e-book containing the transcripts, in both Word and PDF format. I am not offering this through streaming, as I figure you can stream the videos through YouTube, if you prefer. (Of course, you get the YouTube drawbacks previously mentioned.)

With the USB 3.2 flash drive in hand, you can copy the videos to your home computer or work computer so you can view them at any time. (You cannot, however, copy them to a company or department network. These videos are for individual use, not company use.) That way you can access them at any time you want to freshen up on your Word skills.

 

The Price for this Valuable Resource?

Normally, the WordTips Video Collections retail for $99 each. Through March 18, you can grab either collection for only $69 (30% off the regular price). If you purchase BOTH collections (2024 & 2025), you can do so for only $128 (35% off the regular price). That’s an amazing offer!

These high-quality HD videos are not time-restricted in any way. You can watch them as many times as you want, whenever you want. As long as you safeguard the files—in other words, you don’t delete them and don’t lose the USB 3.2 flash drive—you’ll always have access to the videos.

Before placing your order, make sure you review and understand the “Important Ordering Notes” at the bottom of this page.

I’ve spent an immense amount of time and resources to put together the WordTips Videos Collections. I’m sure you’ll agree that the collections are a valuable addition to your own reference library.

Do you have other questions about the WordTips Videos Collections? E-mail me (allen@sharonparq.com) and I’ll get you helped out as quickly as I can.

 

Important Ordering Notes

WordTips Videos Collections are a physical product that I ship to you. It is not downloadable, nor is it streamed. Even though I need to send it to you, I do not charge for shipping. The price mentioned above includes shipping, anywhere in the world. Orders are shipped via US Mail and, if you are outside the United States, are delivered by your local postal service. I can control how quickly I get your order handed over to the postal service, but I cannot control how quickly it gets to you once I do hand it over.

If you live in a European Union (EU) country, please do NOT order a WordTips Videos Collection. Your order will go through, but I will need to then cancel the order. The reason is simple: The EU requires the procurement of a special shipping license (for the lack of a better term) that makes it onerous and economically untenable for a small company such as mine to ship physical products into EU countries. I apologize for the necessity of this restriction.

If you live in a country that imposes value-added taxes (VAT), you will need to pay the VAT when the order is delivered to you. I do not collect VAT at the time of ordering, nor is the VAT included in your purchase price.

Again, if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me (allen@sharonparq.com) and I’ll get you helped out as quickly as I can.