Some readers took exception when I stated in a post from last month on future-proofing your data archive that Microsoft’s proprietary Office file formats may not stand the test of time. Well, ...

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 ...

Full block format is most common in business communications, but you may also use it when quoting long portions of text in academic documents. The left justification and one-inch margins give ...

Microsoft Word is arguably the most widely used business application in the world, yet few Word users think twice about the format of their documents. People may change Word’s default font size and ...

There are two basic types of Word 2010 users: Those who upgraded from Word 2007 and those who skipped from Word 2003 (or an earlier version) directly to 2010. These two groups are likely to have very ...

These charts accompany our story Word 2010 cheat sheet. Click through to that story for detailed information on getting up and running with Word 2010. If you’ve upgraded to Word 2010 directly from ...

If you use Microsoft Word (or a similar word processor), you probably know well enough how to save a document. You click Save, choose a folder, give the document a name, and then click Save, OK, or ...

In Microsoft Word, templates are pre-designed documents that you or someone else (such as Microsoft) creates to use as a pattern for a project. The template could be for a business card, brochure, ...