With the rulers enabled in the print or draft layout, you can change the margins and tabs. This article explains how to display the ruler in Microsoft Word—and how to use the ruler to change margins ...

One of the features of Microsoft Word 2013 is that documents downloaded from a website or attached to emails are automatically displayed in read mode. This display mode, new to Word 2013, optimizes ...

Are you looking for ways to display some text in a Word document in columns, while retaining the default layout throughout the rest of your work? Look no further, as this guide offers two methods to ...

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

If you’ve been using Microsoft Word for years, you probably think you have a pretty good grasp on its capabilities. But you might be missing out on the full extent of its capabilities, or worse, ...

Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used word processing programs in the world. It is one element of the software package, Microsoft Office, which also includes other well-known programs such as ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

When it comes to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it's a résumé or an essay, it's most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized ...

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