Tim Plante, MD MHS

Optimizing tables in Microsoft Word and Powerpoint for grants, research manuscripts, and presentations

Tables can render weirdly in MS Word and Powerpoint, and you can have a hard time figuring out why. Here’s few steps to fix them so they are snappy. First: MS Word example (see Powerpoint below) You get a table that looks like this. You start pulling your hair. (Ignore that there are only 3 …

Getting your grant below the page limit using built-in MS Word features

It’s just a little too long! You’ve toiled on your grant day in and out for weeks on end, and despite chopping out loads of overly verbose text, it’s still over the length. It turns out that there are some built-in settings in MS Word to help you get below the length limit without removing …

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