Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few customizations, you can make changes that better suit ...

Here’s how it works: select the text that’s already formatted the way you want, then click the "Format Painter" icon (the ...

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

Eventually, I realized I needed something simpler, which is what led me to FocusWriter. Once you're in this app, the ...

Whether you want company correspondence to have a certain look or need your dissertation to follow MLA styling, you can easily spend hours formatting Microsoft Word documents. But there’s a faster way ...

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

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How to add a conditional font format using Replace in Microsoft Word Your email has been sent Microsoft Word’s Replace feature is more powerful than you might know. This feature is so flexible that it ...

Most of us know that formatting a table’s data, cells, and borders can potentially help readers grasp what a table is trying to say. But that doesn’t mean we know the best way to make it happen. When ...

How to Use Section Breaks to Control Formatting in Word Your email has been sent Microsoft Word supports section breaks, so you can easily change document level formatting from one group of pages to ...

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