23rd November 1999

The mouse is an awesome tool for moving your pointer from one side of the screen to the other, but when it comes to manipulating layout in a Microsoft Word document, it fails miserably without a snap-to grid. That's where the nudge command comes into play; put things exactly where you'd like them to be. First, select the object; from the Drawing toolbar, choose Draw, then Nudge. Now you can move that sucker in any desired direction. Don't continue to overcompensate with your mouse; I just wish that more object-oriented programs had this kind of option.