While you might have experience changing the formatting for your Word documents to meet the requirements for your school or job, you might encounter a situation where you need to use different settings. Microsoft Word is full of different tools and menus that let you customize your document, and line spacing is something that you … Read more
When you use the spellcheck and grammar check options in Microsoft Word you can catch a lot of common mistakes that might have impacted a grade on a paper or the perception of your document’s quality in a professional environment. But as you go through all of the suggestions in those checks, you might notice … Read more
Text that you copy from other locations, like a Web page or another document, will usually have some formatting applied to it. As you are finalizing your document you will find that you need to remove that formatting to give the entire piece of work its own cohesive appearance. Many of the formatting options in … Read more
If you’ve ever pressed Enter a bunch of times to move text to the bottom of the page in a Word document, then aren’t alone. Many Word users will take this approach since there isn’t an obvious way to position text at the bottom of a document. But this can cause problems later, as each … Read more
If you’ve modified the font in a Microsoft Word document then you have likely selected the text that you want to change, then chosen the font, font size, or font color that you wanted to use. Maybe you’ve even explored using cursive fonts in Word to see if that was what you wanted. This method … Read more
Adding columns to a document can give it an appearance that might be more suited for a flyer or a newsletter. Similar to what you would see in a newspaper, simply adding columns as elements can dramatically affect the layout of a document. But after adding columns in Word, it might still seem like something’s … Read more