Formatting is important, because it improves readability and sometimes emphasizes a document's purpose. That means that we spend a lot of time applying formats. Here are three tips will help you work ...

Using styles in Word makes it easy to format headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, and other elements in your document. You can use built-in styles in Word or create a custom style to meet your ...

Whether by applying prebuilt effects to images, adding columns and borders, or placing text over images, you can improve the eye-appeal of your Word documents with just a few clicks and settings ...

In fact, Word's continued existence isn't a testament to its quality—it's a testament to corporate inertia and the sheer ...

Document formatting consistency serves as a hallmark of professionalism in presentations, proposals and reports. Faced with the formidable range of formatting parameters you can apply in Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Years of frustration for Microsoft Word users could finally be at an end after the company announced an update to fix one of its most irritating quirks. Going forward, the default option when pasting ...

Search and replace isn't just for text content; in Microsoft Word, you can search and replace how text looks, too. For example, you can make all the bolded text italicized instead. The secret knob is ...

Q. If there’s one thing about Word I hate, it’s the perverse way it “copies” text from one document to another. For example, if the text in the original document is formatted in 12 point Times New ...