Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word defaults to showing your recent documents when you’re in the “Open Document” screen. The list of recent documents is sorted by the document edit date, with your most recent documents appearing first. By default, the list of recent documents is relatively long, with up to fifty entries, assuming you’ve got enough documents to fill it. You may want to change the … [Read more...] about How to Change the Number of Recent Documents Shown in Word

Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software. One of the things that helps make Word so popular is its range of features. Not only can you write and style documents, but you can also add extra content too, such as images and hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are an important part of some documents; they allow you to link to internet resources or even to other local or … [Read more...] about How to Add a Hyperlink in Word

When adding images to a Word document you have to choose how you want them to interact with the text in the document. By default, images are “In Line with Text” which means that the image is considered to be placed at a specific place in a line of text. Depending on the size of the image, this may end up looking quite awkward and wasting a lot of space. This is because text can … [Read more...] about How to Change Text Wrapping Options in Word

Most users of Microsoft Word will be perfectly happy with saving all their documents in the default “docx” file type and perhaps occasionally exporting a document as a PDF. In work environments, however, there may be times where you may need to use one of the alternative file type options that Word can save in. … [Read more...] about How to Change the Default File Type in Word

Microsoft Word defaults to a light grey and blue theme with a cloud motif in the top-right corner. This is likely the only Word colour scheme that most people have seen, as the customisation features for Word are not widely used. There are, however, a range of colour options and motifs that you can choose between if you prefer to change the look of Word. … [Read more...] about How to Change the Theme in Word

When you need to do some picture editing, Microsoft Word might not be your first choice. But, the good news is that it does have some basic photo editing features you can use. If what you need to do is very little, you could very well get it done without having to open another program. One of those basic options Microsoft Word has is the option of turning an image upside … [Read more...] about How to Turn a Picture Upside Down in Microsoft Word