Microsoft Word

Bookmark document location: Creating a bookmark is a feature used to jump anywhere within the document. A bookmark in MS Word means that any location or content in a document can be saved with its corresponding names, and the same location or content can be navigated by a bookmarked name at any time in the … Read more

Accommodate Columns for Different Pages and Sections in MS-Word: In the Word document, you can split (divide) text into different columns for different sections and pages wherever you want. The column Format includes one column, two columns, three columns, left columns and right columns and also you can insert the line in between the columns. … Read more

6 Shortcuts to Increase or Decrease Font Size in MS Word Since it is usually a time-consuming task to increase or decrease font size (Grow or Shrink Font Size) in MS-Word with the mouse, using the keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse can increase or decrease the size of the font quickly and easily.  In this article, you … Read more

In this article, you will learn a very important topic related to paragraph formattings,  such as a Page Break, Paragraph Break, Line Break, and Column Break in the word document. Page Break in MS-Word: Page breaks mean to start a new page or add a new page to the next from the current page (Also … Read more

Distribute Rows and Columns of a Table: If the row height or column width of a table is not equally or evenly distributed, the “Distribute Row Height” and ” Distribute Column Width” options help you distribute all the rows heights and columns widths equally when row heights or column widths are not even. These give … Read more

Left, Right, Center, and Justification Alignments in MS-Word: Paragraph alignments make a document professionally easy to read. A paragraph is a form of one or more lines, a line is a group of words, and a word is a combination of other characters. Generally, a paragraph aligns Left, Center, Right and Justifies the paragraph from the … Read more

Set Multiple Page Sizes in a Word Document: Set default page/paper size as other page sizes such as Letter size, A4 size, Tabloid, Envelope size, and custom page sizes at a time in the document. You can add (change) more mixed page sizes (different or custom page sizes)  wherever you want in a Microsoft Office Word … Read more

Different Page Borders for Different Pages: You can apply different page borders to the pages you like. Various page borders add beauty to your document. These can be very useful for small children’s projects and any other related projects. What most people do not know, however, is how to add different borders. So in this … Read more

Set Portrait and Landscape Page Orientations at a time: Changing the Portrait page as a Landscape page and the Landscape page as a Portrait is called Orientation. In other words, changing the height of a page as width and width of a page as height, called Orientation. However, the default Page Layout in a word is Portrait. … Read more

Shortcut Keys of MS Word: To do document work faster you need to use shortcut keys that are used frequently. shortcut keys reduce the mouse work and make documents work pretty fast in less time. The Most Important and Frequent used shortcuts of MS Word are discussed below. Most Important Shortcut Keys of MS Word 1. Bold … Read more

Customize The Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Office Word:  Do you wanna use the commands of the word quickly and frequently so, customize the quick access toolbar by adding or removing the commands? The Quick Access Toolbar locates at the top left corner of the title bar. By default, the Quick Access Toolbar contains a set of … Read more

Ribbon Display Options are very useful to control the Ribbon Tabs (Menus) and Groups. It appears at the 4th position from the top right corner of the office applications (Left to the Control Buttons). The list of 3 options under the Ribbon Display Options in MS-Word is the Auto-Hide Ribbon, Show Tabs, Show Tabs, and Commands. … Read more

Hidden Control Buttons are contextual, that appears based upon the Left or Right-click on the Title bar. There is a slight difference between the Hidden Control Buttons and the Control Buttons. In general, the control buttons include Minimize, Restore Down/Maximize and Close, which appear at the top right corner of the MS Office Suite of Applications (Right to the Ribbon Display … Read more

Introduction to Clipboard Task pane: We use copy or cut commands to paste the contents of any Word document from one place to another or into another application or on the same system. But after cutting or copying the contents, the previous copied or cut content in the clipboard will be replaced with the new … Read more

Cut, Copy and Paste the contents of the Clipboard: Cutting, copying and pasting are the most important options for the Clipboard in MS Word. The cut and copy commands help you temporarily store content on the Clipboard, and the Paste command will help you get the content of the Clipboard in any application you want. To Cut, Copy, … Read more

Format Painter Copies formatting from one text and applying it to another. In other meaningful words, copy the text formatting such as any combination of bold, italic, underline, text colour, text size, etc. and apply it to another text to make it the same as the copied one. This Painter is very easy and extremely beneficial to … Read more

Paste Options is your choice to paste the contents (with or without the objects) of the clipboard in several formattings (after cutting or pasting) such as Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, Picture Formatting, and Keep Text Only. Keep Source Formatting (K) – Paste Options in MS Word in the Paste options, Keep Source Formatting pastes … Read more

Font formatting is also alternatively known as text formatting. It is used to format the text means to make the selected text Bold, Italic, Underline and change the Font Style, Size, Color and some of these or all of these for changing the look of the title, subtitle, heading, subheading, a body of the text and … Read more

Changing Text Case means changing the selected text from one case to another such as an Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize Each Word, Toggle Case, and Sentence Case. Changing Tet Case: There are 5 common text cases in Word. These are 1. Uppercase, 2. Lowercase, 3. Capitalize Each Word, 4. Toggle Case, and 5. Sentence Case. These … Read more

Applying the special formats to the content such as an Outline, Shadow, Reflection or Glow is known as the Text Effects. Similarly, changing the Styles, Ligatures, and Stylistics Sets of the numbers is called Typography settings. The combination of these settings are called the Text Effects and Typography. Text Effects and Typography: These are specifically described … Read more

Clearing all text formatting means removing any formatting previously applied to all text in a document, such as bold, italics, size, text color, etc. After clearing the font formatting, it resets to the default size (the default font size is 11) with the unformatted Calibri(body) font. You can clear the text formatting by using a … Read more

A paragraph is a meaning part of a document that describes a specific idea or point. It can be a combination of letters, words, numbers etc. Giving more or less space between the Lines and Paragraphs is called Line and Paragraph Spacing. By default, the space between the lines in the word is 1.15. Similarly, the space … Read more

Creating a Bulleted List: Make the text easier to read by specifying each word/line/sentence with a bulleted list in your word document that you like. To get started with the bulleted list, follow the steps below the screenshot: Creating Numbered List: Go to the Home tab Click on the drop-down arrow of the Bullets, which is … Read more

The command “Select All Text With Similar Formatting” helps you select all the text with the same formatting. It means selecting all text in a Word document that has the same format (or eg: text formatted with bold, italic, color, etc.) rather than all text. Select All The Text With Similar Formatting in MS-Word: Enter … Read more

There are several ways to insert the table in MS-Word. You can insert table and spreadsheet in different ways like Insert, Draw, Convert Text to Table, Spreadsheet (Excel) and Quick Tables, Shortcut wherever you want in the document. Methods to insert the table in MS Word 1. The Hidden Secret to Insert a Table in … Read more

In this article, you can learn Convert Text to Table and Convert to Text in MS-Word. Converting text to the table means adding a table to the contents in the document. Similarly, converting a table to text means removing the table by keeping the contents.  Convert Text to Table in Word: Type and select text … Read more

Table style options and its styles in a word are the customizable and automatic format options. These will make easier for you to format the table based on your text needs. Manually formatting a manual table is likely to waste some time. Thus we have a choice in Word to save our precious time. A … Read more

The table border styles and painter are used to apply a stylish look to your table. These include border styles, border weight, border color etc. Formatting table styles and borders are useful to match the content of the table in a Word document. Table Border Styles and Painter First, insert the table from the Insert tab, and … Read more

In word processing, there are different ways to select a table, row, column, and cell. The selection techniques include Mouse, Commands and Shortcut keys, Arrows, Selection from Page Margin, and General Selection. To do so, follow the steps below. Steps: How to select a Table, Row, Column or Cell After inserting the table, A table tools … Read more

There are many options to delete (erase) a row, column, or a cell of a table in Word. So the deletion may be a whole table or a part of it, a cell or the few cells, a column or the few columns, a row or the few rows. To do so, get started now. … Read more

AutoFit Table Contents, Window, Fixed Column Width, and Resize a table, Row, or Column is also known as autofit behavior. It is based upon the content, window, or size. These are described step-by-step below.  AutoFit Table Contents in MS-Word (Autofit Behavior): If the content in the column of a table is less than the width of the … Read more

A repeat header row means that the beginning header of a table on the first page of a Word document will automatically be repeated in tables on all subsequent pages. In other words: After filling the data in the table of the current page and start filling the data for the subsequent pages, the header … Read more

Create a Link Between the Text Boxes in Word: Creating a flow of text from one text box to another by linking text boxes is called link between the text boxes. By creating a link between the text boxes, we can save some typing time. Also the text can be adjusted by resizing the text … Read more

The Remove Background tool is very useful to easily remove the unwanted background of the picture inserted in your Word document. There is no need to use Photoshop and such photo editor software for the basic type of editing. To know how to remove the background of a picture, follow the step-by-step instructions below. Steps … Read more

Border, Effect, Layout and Styles of a Picture: To apply different picture borders, visual effects,  convert a picture into a different SmartArt graphic layout, follow the steps given below. Picture Border/Outline in MS-Word:​ Picture Border is also known as a Picture Outline. It is used to apply Theme Color, Width and Dashes to the Border of … Read more

Grouping and  Ungrouping the Objects: Grouping means making more objects together into one object. Similarly, ungrouping means dividing the grouped objects as if they were a single object. Benefits of Grouping the Objects: Grouping two or more objects make them a single object. And if you resize the single grouped objects, their placement will be evenly … Read more

Crop, Crop to Shape: Cutting any aspect ratio from the unwanted outer part of an image is called Crop. Similarly, Cropping an image in different ratios such as Square, Portrait, and Landscape is called Aspect Ratio. Crop a Picture:​ Cropping means cutting any aspect ratio from the unwanted outer part of an image. Go to … Read more

Fix or Write the Text on a Picture: You can fix the text on the picture even when you move an image around the page the name and picture can’t be separated. 2 Ways to Fix or Write Text on a Picture in MS-Word: Method-1: Fix or Write Text on a Picture in MS-Word: Go … Read more

All Except First Page and First Page Border in Word: Page border makes your document professional and stylish look. You can choose a variety of page borders Line Styles, Widths, Colors, and Effects, or you can also apply the different Art styles for Page Borders. This Section – First Page Border Only: Go to the Design tab Click … Read more

To have different Headers or Footers for Different Pages in Word, depending on the need for different types of content in your document, we should break the sections on required pages and apply the header or footer. To do so, read this article in its entirety. But What is a Header or Footer? The header … Read more