You can waste a lot of time trying to get a document to look right. These power user tricks will help speed your formatting chores. Formatting improves the readability of your documents and often ...

With so many menus to dig through, getting a document to look decent in Microsoft Word can feel like a chore. I used to find formatting tedious, but after learning a few features and shortcuts, it ...

Microsoft Word includes several tools for adjusting the alignment of text -- words, sentences and paragraphs. Although text aligns left with the left document margin automatically, you can re-align ...

Three ways to expose formatting inconsistencies in a Word document Your email has been sent Whether you're sharing new documents or revamping old ones, these three tools can reveal troublesome ...

Peter S. Chamberlain asked for a way, in Microsoft Word, to automatically manage the formatting of “a lot of text.” The Styles feature in Microsoft Word is one of a handful of tools that keep me from ...

Microsoft Word has many, many tricks up its sleeve. The seven here will help you through some common snags in complex documents. Have a favorite we missed? Tell us about it in the comments. You can ...

Keep paragraphs together, print on both sides, change the date automatically, fit more text on a page, and insert an object on its own page. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

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