Some Useful Microsoft Word Tools

This post collects some useful tools for Microsoft Word that I've come across recently. 

British macro wizard Paul Beverley has been updating his free Macros for Editors book recently. It contains over 1000 macros that greatly extend what you can do with Word. I used many of them when I was working at the TMX Group and they greatly increased my productivity. 

To make the book and macros easier to use, he's created an online menu  that lets you select sections of the book devoted to specific topics and view or download that section as a PDF. He also has a Macros Menu that contains a list of all the macros linked directly to the macro code. For those, like myself, who have been using these macros for years, there's a dated list of macros so you can easily see which ones have been recently updated. 

His book also contains appendices with reference material like lists of find and replace codes (both with and without wildcards), Unicode and ASCII codes, instructions on how to backup your normal.dot file, and so on. 

For visual learners, he has a YouTube channel with many videos explaining both his macros and various Word features like search and replace. 

Jacques Raubenheimer is an expert in Microsoft Office who has published a book on using Microsoft Word for academic documents like dissertations or theses. He has a Word add-in called Word uTilities that contains tools for managing documents, bookmarks, lists, and comments. 

Finally, Make Us Of has a review of eight productivity add-ins for Word. I have not used any of them (actually, I haven't even heard of any of them) but some do look useful.