This article, Three helpful Word formatting tips for working smarter, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. Formatting is important, because it improves readability and sometimes emphasizes a ...

Maintaining document formatting can be quite challenging when working with text from multiple sources. Fortunately, Microsoft Word provides you with special paste and formatting options to help you ...

Once you get the format of your Word document just right, you don’t want users (or colleagues) messing things up in any way. Learn how you can lock all formatting options in your Word 2003 documents ...

Set a table format for your entire Word document If you often work on lengthy Microsoft Word documents that contain tables that are the same format, do you usually grumble when you have to reset the ...

A family member contacted me this morning about a problem a friend of his was having in Microsoft Word. It seems there were little dots in every blank space, paragraph marks at each “carriage return,” ...

Follow the steps below to show and hide formatting marks or non-printing characters in Word: Under the section “Always show these formatting marks on screen,” you can enable one or more formatting ...

Changing the default printer driver to PDF lets files created in Word 2010 format properly in Word 2007, but the only permanent solution is to revert to Word's old default format. Dennis O'Reilly ...

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Here's an odd one that I haven't been able to figure out. I have an MS Word doc that has HTML tags in it - , , stuff like that. I need to ditch the HTML tags and use Word's own formatting (italic, ...