When creating a document in Microsoft Word for print binding, you must allow for added margin space in the area of the page that falls within the spine of the finished product. Word calls this area ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a Microsoft Word document that just doesn’t look quite right. Maybe the text feels cramped, the formatting is inconsistent, or that image you inserted refuses to stay ...

Changing the default printer driver to PDF lets files created in Word 2010 format properly in Word 2007, but the only permanent solution is to revert to Word's old default format. Dennis O'Reilly ...

There is no avoiding the fact; Microsoft Word is a very powerful program that has way more features than you’re probably ever going to need. When you are just getting started with Word the entire ...

If you've worked with Word much at all, you know how frustrating it can be getting formatting just the way you want it. While you can't remove all of the frustration, you can eliminate a lot of it by ...

The How-To Geek weblog steps through how to use Word's find and replace feature to handle formatting the same way it handles text. Click in the blank Find box, and then you can use the regular ...

Using Word styles will help you work more efficiently and create consistent documents that are easy to maintain and modify. There are two ways to format a Word document. You can apply formatting ...

TL;DR: Anyone who regularly uses Microsoft Word probably knows the frustration of pasting text into a document only to see it ruin the formatting because it retained its original size, color, and font ...

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 ...

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