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 ...

There is no avoiding the fact; Microsoft Word is a very powerful program that has way more features than you’re probably ever going to need. When you are just getting started with Word the entire ...

If you work with Microsoft Word 2011, you may find the program’s toolbars and ribbon practical ways to access functions you use often, such as formatting, alignment, and highlighting. But the toolbars ...

Q. I want to start a folder with the jokes I receive in my e-mails but would like to standardize their appearance. You know, change the fonts, get rid of tabs stops, etc. How would you do that? Also, ...

Peter S. Chamberlain asked for a way, in Microsoft Word, to automatically manage the formatting of “a lot of text.” The Styles feature in Microsoft Word is one of a handful of tools that keep me from ...

Using Word styles will help you work more efficiently and create consistent documents that are easy to maintain and modify. There are two ways to format a Word document. You can apply formatting ...

Calling all Word 2003 (and earlier) users: The more toolbars you've got stacked up, the less space you have for viewing your actual document. So rid the word processor of the ones you seldom use. Here ...

Older versions of Microsoft Word included a feature that let users create memos directly from the document toolbar. Word 2007 and Word 2010 allow users to download different memo templates and then ...

Changing the default printer driver to PDF lets files created in Word 2010 format properly in Word 2007, but the only permanent solution is to revert to Word's old default format. Dennis O'Reilly ...

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 ...