Formatting in Microsoft Word can be a little frustrating to work with, especially if you are working on a document that you did not create yourself. But there are some features of Word that can cause frustration that are not related to formatting. One of these features is called smart paragraph selection. It is enabled […]

Word 2013 has a lot of formatting capabilities for the text and images that you include in your document. Some of the more basic ones, like Bold, Italics, and font style changes are things that most Word users become familiar with early on, but there are other formatting options that you might not have cause […]

You may already know how to add page numbers in Word 2013, but there may come a time when you would like to use a different format for those page numbers than some of the options you are accustomed to using. Luckily Word 2013 has some additional page numbering options, and one of those options […]

Adding a border to a picture in Word 2013 is useful when you want to easily identify the boundaries of an image, or convey a distinct separation between an image in a document and the rest of the content in that document. It’s easy to add a border to a picture in Word, but you might […]

It is very common for schools to request the last name and page number on every page in Word documents submitted by their students. Teachers are often tasked with reading papers from a large number of students, and this extra organizational step can make things much easier if pages and documents are ever separated. But […]

Microsoft Word documents are generally easier to print than Excel spreadsheets, but there are small frustrations that can arise in Word, even when you have already taken measures to make your printing task a little simpler. This issue can be even worse when dealing with large documents. One problem that you might encounter is that your […]

You may discover that you need to learn how to add a row to table in Word 2013 if you are creating one from scratch, only to find that the default table-creation tool only allows you to make an 8 x 8 table. While there are ways to copy and paste data from Excel if you […]

Some people have strong opinions about the amount of spacing that should occur after a sentence in a document, but Microsoft Word 2013 defaults to the assumption that one space is correct. This can be problematic if you need to have two spaces after a period in Word, however, as it is a very difficult […]

Microsoft Word 2013 has a rich repository of font choices that you can use to customize your documents as you see fit. Each of those fonts can be customized in a number of different ways, such as changing the color, or size, making the text bold or italic, or applying a number of other formatting choices […]

Large documents can be tough to navigate. Pages can start to run together, and similar sections may be difficult to identify separately from one another. This can be even more pronounced when you include a lot of tables in your document, especially if they contain similar types of information. One effective way to identify a […]