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Some fonts have a big impact on the way that punctuation looks. Occasionally this can make those characters too small, to the point where they may be tough to see. Our tutorial will show you how to increase just the size of the periods that you have in your Microsoft Word document. How to Change… Continue Reading How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word
When you make new documents in Microsoft Word, you assume that you won’t have any trouble finding them later when you need them. But if the file are difficult to locate or you want to put them in a different location, then our tutorial below will show you how to change the default save location… Continue Reading How to Save Word 2010 Files to SkyDrive By Default
Microsoft Word has a remarkable amount of options for controlling the appearance of the objects in your document. This applies to the tables you create, too. Our tutorial below will show you several ways that you can adjust the colors of the table borders and cell backgrounds in Microsoft Word tables. How to Change Table… Continue Reading How to Change Table Color in Word 2013
Many regular documents in Microsoft Word won’t use fonts much larger than 20 pt. But when you are making a flyer or a banner, you might need really big text. Our tutorial below will show you a simple way to go above the seeming 72 pt font limit that Word appears to have in place.… Continue Reading How to Make the Font Size Bigger than 72 in Word 2013
Editing pictures can be difficult and time-consuming, especially if it’s not something that you do a lot. Fortunately, many of the popular Microsoft Office applications that you use every day have some ways to make image adjustments directly in your content. Our tutorial below will show you how to flip a Microsoft Word 2013 picture… Continue Reading How to Flip a Picture in Word 2013
If you want someone to be able to click some text in your document and visit a Web page, then you want to use a hyperlink. You can create a hyperlink in Microsoft Word 2010 if you select some text or a picture, right-click the selected text or image, then click Hyperlink from the shortcut… Continue Reading How to Create a Hyperlink in Word 2010
While Microsoft Word can be a pretty intuitive application for many of the documents that you edit, you will inevitably find situations where you can’t fix a problem. These issues are typically related to formatting choices that you made in the past, or that were made by someone else who has edited the document. These… Continue Reading How to Remove a Section Break in a Word Document
Everyone makes mistakes or forgets something, and this extends to the documents that we create for work and school. While some of the more common mistakes involve spelling or grammar issues, you might also forget to cover an entire document after you’ve written most of your content. Rather than trying to move everything around manually… Continue Reading How to Insert a Blank Page in Word 2010
Have you seen a document that used a type of “all caps” writing, but it looked a little different? Unless they were using an unusual font, it’s very likely that what you saw was the small caps effect in Word. Our tutorial below will provide you with more information on how to use the small… Continue Reading How to Apply Small Caps in Word
While your school or place of employment might want your documents to be in the portrait orientation, you may create a lot of other documents in landscape. Making this change every time, or remembering to make the change, might be tedious or annoying, so you may be wondering if it’s possible to change the default… Continue Reading How to Set Landscape as Default Orientation in MS Word 2010