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 ...

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 ...

Bob Pfeifer wrote that he wanted to use “tab settings” in Microsoft Word to create a roster of mobile-home park residents by their lot number, name, phone number and email address — but he couldn’t ...

One of the simplest ways to make a page more attractive and easy to read is to place the text in columns. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Apr. 2013 and the video tutorial for ...

When you want to reformat your Microsoft Word document and have more flexibility to position the text and other elements, you can clear the tab stops for this layout. Remove the tab stops by accessing ...

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 ...

Admit it: You don’t use half the tools in your word processing app—whether it’s Microsoft Word, Apple’s own Pages, or Google Docs—maybe even less than half. But without all those bells and whistles ...

The formatting in Microsoft Word is a great feature for designing text documents as we like. Sometimes, even after applying a lot of formatting to the document, it doesn’t work. In that case, we might ...

Find your favorite Word 2003 commands in the new Word 2007 interface. Editor’s Note: These charts accompany our main story, “Word 2007 Cheat Sheet.” Click through to that story for detailed ...

Microsoft Word is software that people worldwide uses to edit their documents, write essays and even create bookmarks or flyers; it comes with a lot of editing features that can make your flyers or ...