Your Microsoft Word 2010 document includes a lot of information behind the scenes that dictates how elements appear within that document. You can choose to show that information by enabling an option that will display formatting marks. However, these marks can be difficult to work with if you are unfamiliar with them, so you might […]

Microsoft Word 2013 will save in the .docx file type if you don’t change any of the settings for the program. This is great when you need to share a document with other people that are using applications that are compatible with that file type. But older versions of Word used a .doc file format […]

In earlier versions of Microsoft Word, the default file format used the .doc file extension. However, newer versions of Word have started to use the .docx file format by default. Word 2013 is still capable of opening .doc files, and you can even save to the .doc file format in Word 2013 if you need […]

Microsoft Word 2013 supports a number of different file types, which means that you can open or create files that are compatible with different programs. For example, Word can save as a PDF if you need to share a document with someone that doesn’t have access to Microsoft Word. A default Word 2013 installation will […]

When you need to remove some of the white space from a document in Word 2013, two of the most common areas to look are the header and the footer. Fortunately you can adjust some settings for both of these locations that will allow you to minimize the amount of space that they use. Our […]

Formatting in Microsoft Word 2013 can be incredibly useful when you need to make adjustments to content that you have created, but it can be frustrating when you need to change formatting that was already applied to the document. One easy solution is to just clear all of the formatting from the document, but that […]

Word document formatting can come in a variety of different options, so whether you need to double space your document or customize your page numbering, you are likely to find out that there are a considerable number of different menus for styling. But one of the harder elements of a document to format are the […]

The shortcut menu that appears when you right-click an image in Word 2013 contains a number of different settings and options that you can use to manipulate a picture. For example, you could add a hyperlink to a picture so that a reader can click the picture and be taken to a Web page or […]

A document can often be difficult to identify if it doesn’t have a title page or a detailed header, so printing a document properties page can be a helpful way to keep your documents organized. But enabling that option will modify the settings for Word 2013 so that every document you print includes this page, […]

We have previously written about how to remove add-ins in Microsoft Word, but you may be experiencing a different problem where you have a tab above the Word ribbon that is labeled “Add-Ins.” This tab provides access to add-ins that are currently part of your Word 2013 installation. This tab is not a required navigational […]