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What Your Function Keys Do in Microsoft Word

The function keys on keyboards don’t get the love they used to, but depending on the app you’re running, they can still be quite handy. Word, in particular, has some interesting features tucked away behind your fu...

Hayley Milliman Sep 7th, 2018

How to Cut, Copy, and Paste in Microsoft Word

Cutting, copying, and pasting are three of the most basic features available to a computer user, but as you might expect Microsoft Word gives you more options than just those. There’s a built-in Office clipboard that&#8...

Rob Woodgate Sep 6th, 2018

Why Microsoft’s Office 365 is a Great Deal

Microsoft’s Office 365 service has been a great deal for a long time, and it’s getting better. Starting October 2, 2018, Office 365 Home will let six users install an unlimited number of Office applications....

How to Find and Replace Formatting in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace feature isn’t just for replacing text. You can also use Find and Replace to locate specific types of formatting throughout your document and even replace that formatting with some...

Amelia Griggs Aug 30th, 2018

How to Find and Replace Text in Microsoft Word

Have you ever finishing typing a letter, report or presentation only to discover that you misspelled a person’s name or had the wrong company listed multiple times throughout your document? No worries—it’s a...

Amelia Griggs Aug 29th, 2018

How (and Why) to Use Hidden Text in a Word Document

Word lets you hide text so you can read or print your document as if the text isn’t there. This might seem pointless—why not just remove the text if you don’t want someone to read it—but hidden text do...

Rob Woodgate Aug 28th, 2018

Use the Navigation Pane to Easily Reorganize Microsoft Word Documents

Microsoft Word is packed with features that improve usability and workflow efficiency. Navigation Pane is a great example, and you can use it to navigate headings, search your document for text or objects, and even easily reo...

Marshall Gunnell Aug 27th, 2018

How to Reduce the Size of a Microsoft Word Document

Word documents can get huge, unusually long, complex documents with loads of embedded images, fonts, and other objects. But it also seems like documents can grow out of hand for seemingly no reason at all. If you’re dea...

Rob Woodgate Aug 24th, 2018

How to Position Images and Other Objects in Microsoft Word

Adding an image or other illustration objects to a Word document is simple, but positioning those objects and getting them to stay where you want them can be frustrating. Luckily Word has the tools to make this more manageabl...

Rob Woodgate Aug 23rd, 2018

How to Tell How Long You’ve Worked on a Microsoft Word Document

One thing many writers want to know is how much time they’re spending on writing. If you use Microsoft Word, you’re in luck, because it’s easy to find out how much time you’ve spent editing a document....

Hayley Milliman Aug 22nd, 2018

How to Disable Automatic Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word

By default, Word 2016 and 365 automatically create hyperlinks out of web addresses you type. If you’d rather Word not create hyperlinks automatically, you can disable this functionality. Here’s how....

Hayley Milliman Aug 21st, 2018

How to Work with Page Numbers in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word offers an easy way to add different styles of page numbers to your document. If you’ve got a simple document, it works well enough. But if you’ve worked with Word for a while and use it to create mo...

Marshall Gunnell Aug 20th, 2018

How to Use Wildcards When Searching in Word 2016

Word has a powerful search feature that lets you search for text, numbers, formats, paragraphs, page breaks, wildcards, field codes, and more. By using wildcards, you can search for just about everything in your document. Let...

Amelia Griggs Aug 16th, 2018

All the Best Microsoft PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts

Even if you’re familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint, you might be surprised by the number and variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your work and generally make things more convenient.

Amelia Griggs Aug 13th, 2018

How to Align a Table Horizontally in Microsoft Word

If you have a table that doesn’t take up the full width of your Word document, you can change its horizontal alignment on the page and even fine-tune how far it’s indented if you’ve got it aligned to the lef...

Hayley Milliman Aug 12th, 2018

How to Make Outlook 2016 Close a Message After Replying or Forwarding

By default, Outlook keeps a message window open after you reply to or forward that message, meaning you have to manually it when you’re done. You can change that so that Outlook automatically closes the original message...

Hayley Milliman Aug 11th, 2018

All the Best Microsoft Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Even if you’re familiar with Microsoft Excel, you might be surprised by the number and variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your work and generally make things more convenient.

Amelia Griggs Aug 10th, 2018

How to Draw a Line Through Words in Microsoft Word

When working with Word, you’ve probably seen two different kinds of text with lines through it (something we call “strikethrough”). Red text with a red line through it happens when you delete text while the ...

Marshall Gunnell Aug 9th, 2018

How to Alphabetize Lists and Tables in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word makes it easy for you to alphabetize text, whether that text is on its own, in a list, or part of a table. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.

Amelia Griggs Aug 8th, 2018

How to Wrap Text Around Pictures and Other Illustrations in Microsoft Word

Adding an image to a Word document is as simple as dragging and dropping—or clicking Insert > Picture—and then moving it to the right place. But what if you want to put your image in a specific place in the doc...

Rob Woodgate Aug 7th, 2018

How to Convert a PDF to a Microsoft Word Document

PDFs are often used when distributing documents so that they’re seen the same way by all parties. Because they’re designed in this way, they can be quite difficult to edit. You may want to convert your PDF to a Wo...

Hayley Milliman Aug 3rd, 2018

How to Change the Default Search Location in Microsoft Outlook

When you perform a search in Outlook, it defaults to searching only the current folder. You can change what you’re searching on the fly, but you can also set that default behavior to be something different....

Hayley Milliman Aug 2nd, 2018

How to Enable Dark Mode in Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office includes black and dark gray themes. Windows 10’s system-wide dark mode won’t affect Office apps, but you can choose a dark theme for Office apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPo...

Chris Hoffman Aug 1st, 2018

How to Add a Background Color, Picture, or Texture to a Word Document

You can quickly add visual appeal to your Microsoft Word document by adding a background color, image or texture. You can choose from a variety of colors and fill effects. Adding a colorful background image can be helpful whe...

Amelia Griggs Jul 31st, 2018

How to Change a Picture to Black and White in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has several simple color adjustment options so that you can quickly and easily style the images in your Word document. Whether you want to create an artistic masterpiece or simply get your document to match you...

Hayley Milliman Jul 30th, 2018