How to Hide Table Gridlines in Word 2010
If you are seeing a series of horizontal and vertical lines inside one of your tables, then it may not be related to the table …
Microsoft Word How-To Guides
Articles and tutorials to help you with document creation, editing, and formatting options in the Microsoft Word word-processing application.
Not sure where to start? Check out our featured Microsoft Word guides below:
- How to Remove a Section Break in Word – if the layout of your document is problematic because of a section break, this article will show you how to fix it.
- How to Print Avery Labels in Word – this tutorial will instruct you on how to use the built-in templates in Word to print Avery-brand labels.
- How to Double Space in Word – find out how to change the spacing for your document from the current setting to double-spaced.
Can Word 2013 Save as a .doc File?
The .docx file type that Microsoft Word has been using for recent versions of the Word application is compatible with a number of different programs …
How to Hide Text in Microsoft Word 2013
Do you want to remove some of the text from your document, but you don’t want to delete it completely? You might have considered copying …
How to Vertically Center Text in Word 2013
Do you need to put some of the text in your document in the middle of the page? While you may have found the button …
How to Bottom Align in Microsoft Word for Office 365
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. …
How Do I Center Text in Word 2010?
If you have a document title that is at the top of the first page in your Word document, then you may want to put …
How Do I Change the Vertical Position of Text in Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word gives you the ability to move text horizontally on the page with some buttons that you can find on the Home tab. But …
How to Insert a Page Break in Word 2010
Normally if you are editing a document that consists of just text, the automatic page breaks that occur when you fill one page will be …
How to Insert a Text Box in Word 2013
Microsoft Word provides a number of different tools that you can use to add content to a document. You might already be familiar with adding …
How to Print Avery Labels in Word
When you need to print out address labels or something else, you will likely buy a product that uses the Avery label templates. Avery is …
Can I Convert a Microsoft Word Table to Excel?
While it might initially seem like there wouldn’t be a lot of crossover in the types of information that you have in a Word document …
How to Return to Normal View in Word 2010
When you are creating or editing a document, you get used to things looking a certain way. So if you open a Microsoft Word document …
How to Change the Voice in Microsoft Word When Reading Aloud
The Read Aloud feature in Microsoft Office is a really useful tool when you want to read aloud in Word. This speak feature can come …
What is the Best Microsoft Word Cursive Font?
The best Microsoft Word cursive font is something that is going to vary based on personal preference, so it’s hard to consider any specific font …
How to Count Characters in Microsoft Word 2013 (A Quick 3 Step Guide)
Occasionally you will need to know the number of letters, numbers, and spaces in a phrase, paragraph, or document. Manually counting this sort of information …
How to Flip a Picture in Word 2010 for a T-shirt Transfer
Working with pictures that you want to put on a t-shirt can be surprisingly complicated. But one of the things that you might not be …
How to Draw a Circle in Word 2010
Simple shapes can have a lot of uses in a Word document, so it’s entirely possible that you might need to use one. Whether you …
How to Make PDF in Word 2010
While Microsoft Word is one of the most popular productivity applications you can use on a PC or a Mac, you might still be looking …
How to Remove Superscript in Word 2013
If you copy text from a different location, it’s likely that it will have some unwanted formatting. If that formatting includes superscript, then you might …
How to Change Automatic Font Color in Word 2013
When you start a new document in Microsoft Word there are certain settings that it will use by default. In a perfect world, these will …
How to Change Margins in Word 2010 from Inches to Centimeters
There isn’t a standardized unit of measurement for the entire world, so Microsoft Word provides a number of options. If you live in the United …
How to Make a Table Fit on One Page in Word 2010
While adding a table to Microsoft Word is accomplished from the Insert tab, simply adding the table may not be enough. Complex Word documents can …
How to Search for a Word in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word’s search tools come in a couple of different varieties. The basic search lets you locate specific words or phrases in your document, while the Advanced …
How to Add a Picture to a Header in Word 2010
Customizing the header area in a Microsoft Word document is something that you may have done before if you wanted to add page numbers or …
How to Save on a Flash Drive in Microsoft Word 2010
USB thumbnail or flash drives are becoming much more popular as a means to store files. Their capacity continues to grow all the time, and …
How to Show Margins in Word 2013
The margins that you set for a document in a word processing application like Google Docs or Microsoft Word can be pretty important. Your school …
How to Underline Spaces in Word 2013
Many of the formatting changes that you want to apply in a Microsoft Word document can be achieved by selecting the text that you want …
How to Make a Word 2013 Background Image
Microsoft Word 2013 is a full-featured word processing program that allows you to customize your documents in nearly any way that you can imagine. While …
How to Add a Page Border in Word 2013
You might be familiar with working with borders for your cells in an Excel spreadsheet, but other types of documents can have borders, too. One …
How to Edit a Hyperlink in Word 2010
Adding a link to a document in applications like Google Docs or Microsoft Word allows your audience to simply click on some of the text …
How to Change Font of Page Numbers in Word
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 …
How to Remove the Underline from a Hyperlink in Word 2013
Hyperlinks are a crucial part of how we navigate our digital world. Whether it’s something in an email, text message, on a website, or even …
How to Outline Font in Word 2013
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, …
How to Print Two Pages on One Sheet – Word 2010
If you have ever explored the various settings for a document in Microsoft Word then you probably encountered the Page Setup dialog box. This menu …
How to Toggle Case in Word 2013
Some of the changes that you will want to make to a Microsoft Word document can seem pretty easy to accomplish. You’ve probably already changed …
How to Add Table Columns in Word 2010
Documents that we create in applications like Google Docs or Microsoft Word are rarely perfect in the first draft. Most documents need a lot of …
How to Hide Formatting Marks in Word 2010
Many of the settings in Microsoft Word will only apply to the current document unless you choose to apply a setting to the default template. …
How to Replace All Occurrences of a Word in Word 2013
Many of the applications that you use every day will have a way for you to search through the text that appears on the screen …
How to Change the Default Line Spacing in Word 2010 to Double Spacing
It’s common for many word processing applications to use single line spacing by default. A single space looks good, and more space between lines can …
How to Use the Passive Voice Checker – Word 2010
Microsoft Word’s Review tab has tools that can automatically check grammar and spelling in your document. A red or blue squiggle appears when it detects …
How to Save as doc Instead of docx in Word 2010 By Default
Microsoft introduced a new default file type with Office 2007 that changed the standard Word document type from .doc to .docx. It added some new …
How to Print Background Color in Word 2013
Microsoft Word documents let you select a page background color from a Colors dialog box, allowing you to view the document with that color on …
How to Get Ruler on Word 2013
Some of the formatting options and tools in Microsoft Word can be in the way, so some users may hide them. Or, perhaps, there is …
How to Remove Borders in Word 2013
While borders are often more of a concern in other Microsoft Office products like Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Powerpoint, you can have borders in a …
How to Use Legal Paper by Default in Word 2010
When you need to change something every time you create a new document in Microsoft Word then it can become annoying very quickly. Fortunately, you …
How to Insert Comment in Word 2010
Many of the more popular document-creation applications include ways for you to work with others. These methods usually provide an interface where collaborators can comment …
How to Add Word 2013 Columns
A new document in Microsoft Word is going to have one column by default. For documents that you create in a scholastic or corporate environment, …
How to Insert Draft Watermark in Word 2013
If you’ve ever seen a document with some faint text or an image that is grayed out and behind the document text, then you have …
How to Draw in Microsoft Word 2013
Do you need to add something to your Word 2013 document, but the only way that you can accurately express the information is through a …
How to Remove Text Highlighting in Word 2013
A text highlight color in Microsoft Word can be a useful way to indicate that something in a Word document is important. But if your …