If you work with Microsoft Word 2011, you may find the program’s toolbars and ribbon practical ways to access functions you use often, such as formatting, alignment, and highlighting. But the toolbars ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.

Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few customizations, you can make changes that better suit ...

In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste. They don’t appear in the latest version of Word. Do you know how to make them appear? The key to populating Word’s ...

Want to add your most useful commands to a spot in which you can gain quick access to these commands without clicking on random tabs to find the command you are looking for to use? In Microsoft Office ...

I know a lot of people who hate Microsoft Word. The two complaints that I hear most often are that it's slow to launch and extremely cluttered. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to make it ...

Calling all Word 2003 (and earlier) users: The more toolbars you've got stacked up, the less space you have for viewing your actual document. So rid the word processor of the ones you seldom use. Here ...

In Microsoft Word, styles are a combination of predefined font style, color, and size that you can apply to text to change its appearance. If you do not want the built-in styles offered in Word, you ...

Many people are still angry at Microsoft for eliminating the traditional menus in Word 2007, but I think that objectively, the ribbon is superior. It doesn't take long to find your away around, and ...

Numbering a list is an easy task in Word. But changing how those numbers look is a bit more complicated. Learn how to create your own custom number format. In Word, you can quickly number a list by ...