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 ...

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 ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

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 ...

Most of us know that formatting a table’s data, cells, and borders can potentially help readers grasp what a table is trying to say. But that doesn’t mean we know the best way to make it happen. When ...

Full block format is most common in business communications, but you may also use it when quoting long portions of text in academic documents. The left justification and one-inch margins give ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word has the most advanced formatting commands of any word-processing program available. To get the most out of them, however, you really must use a mouse, the hard-shelled rolling device ...