How to Clean Up a Word Document

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Cleaning up text formatting in Word from the Course Using Word and InDesign Together More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Marco Janssen | permalink
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Cleaning up text formatting in Word provides you with in-depth training on Design. Taught by Anne-Marie Concepción as part of the Using Word and InDesign Together

For further reading: http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Cleaning-up-text-formatting-Word/122930/143675-4.html ^[1]

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The fast, free way to clean up text in MS Word - CNET More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Maria Fulbright | permalink
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Clean Up Text (and Formatting) makes it easy to remove unwanted leading and trailing characters as well as unwanted text formatting in a Microsoft Word document.

For further reading: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-fast-free-way-to-clean-up-text-in-ms-word/ ^[2]

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How to normalize a Word document? More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Mario Espaillat | permalink
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I was too cheap to hire someone to retype a really, really long scanned document full of legalese. So I OCRed it using OmniPage. But the OCR output was kind of disappointing. I got a word doc th...

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/133092/how-to-normalize-a-word-document ^[3]

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How to Clean Up Word Documents | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by dynfu | permalink
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Every time you work on, make changes to and save a Word document, more and more hidden information is added to the document. Normally, this is not a concern. However, if you are sharing an electronic copy of the document, the other party can easily ascertain this information, which may include the names of anyone who worked on the document,...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5206417_clean-up-word-documents.html ^[4]

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1. http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Cleaning-up-text-formatting-Word/122930/143675-4.html

2. http://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-fast-free-way-to-clean-up-text-in-ms-word/

3. http://superuser.com/questions/133092/how-to-normalize-a-word-document

4. http://www.ehow.com/how_5206417_clean-up-word-documents.html