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 ...

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 ...

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

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 ...

This quick tutorial steps through the process of creating a Word toolbar to consolidate particular commands or execute specialized tasks. The menu bar and toolbars that are built into Word 2003 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

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 ...