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 ...

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 ...

Do you want to format an object or text with the same formatting as the previous one but want to save time than formatting the new object? You can use Format Painter in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

The How-To Geek weblog steps through how to use Word's find and replace feature to handle formatting the same way it handles text. Click in the blank Find box, and then you can use the regular ...

If you see spots, and paragraph marks, and other formatting characters in your Microsoft Word documents, making them go away is easy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Microsoft Word is probably the best tool for writers. However, some people need different options to do various things. For example, we often paste text from other sources like Google Chrome, ...

You can customize the formatting of pasted content before and after it's pasted in Microsoft Word. Here's how. Copying and pasting content in Microsoft Word can be a time-saver, but it can also be ...

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 ...

As a general rule, I recommend using as little direct formatting in Microsoft Word as possible. It’s hard to track and, if you change your mind, you can find yourself with a tedious and time-consuming ...

Microsoft Word, the medium in which almost all of my work is done, is not a particularly user-friendly beast. It crashes on occasion, and it doesn't interact well with documents written on other ...