Peter S. Chamberlain asked for a way, in Microsoft Word, to automatically manage the formatting of “a lot of text.” The Styles feature in Microsoft Word is one of a handful of tools that keep me from ...

Margins are a document-wide property.<P>For paragraph formatting such as hanging indents, you don't need to select the paragraph, just right-click > Paragraph to change the properties for that ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a Microsoft Word document that just doesn’t look quite right. Maybe the text feels cramped, the formatting is inconsistent, or that image you inserted refuses to stay ...

Document formatting consistency serves as a hallmark of professionalism in presentations, proposals and reports. Faced with the formidable range of formatting parameters you can apply in Microsoft ...

With so many menus to dig through, getting a document to look decent in Microsoft Word can feel like a chore. I used to find formatting tedious, but after learning a few features and shortcuts, it ...

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 ...

As a general rule, I recommend using as little direct formatting in Microsoft Word as possible. It’s hard to track and, if you change your mind, you can find yourself with a tedious and time-consuming ...

If you see spots, and paragraph marks, and other formatting characters in your Microsoft Word documents, making them go away is easy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...