Formatting is important, because it improves readability and sometimes emphasizes a document's purpose. That means that we spend a lot of time applying formats. Here are three tips will help you work ...

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 ...

You copy something, paste it into Word, and suddenly it’s a formatting disaster. You aren't alone. I learned these paste tricks the hard way—so you don’t have to. Paste Special should be your go-to ...

Whether by applying prebuilt effects to images, adding columns and borders, or placing text over images, you can improve the eye-appeal of your Word documents with just a few clicks and settings ...

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 ...

Here are my latest suggestions and resources for originating and editing documents in Microsoft Word. Microsoft supplies other helpful Word resources. See the Intermediate MS Word User’s Guidefor ...

A friend of mine was exporting content from Excel into Microsoft Word and kept getting tripped up by the different exporting options. No matter what he did, the resulting Word doc had unnecessary tabs ...

You probably create tables in Word all the time, and don't think a lot about how to make them look attractive. But have you ever noticed how gorgeous tables can look when you see a document created by ...

With Notepad, however, neither of these features are really necessary. You can bypass any guesswork as to how pasted text will look by stripping its formatting and making it adapt to the styles you ...