Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few customizations, you can make changes that better suit ...

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 ...

In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste. They don’t appear in the latest version of Word. Do you know how to make them appear? The key to populating Word’s ...

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 ...

You can find your word count in Microsoft Word in three different ways, including by adding a word count option to your Quick Access toolbar.

Word's Mail Merge feature isn't just for creating form letters and address labels; you can use it to quickly personalize virtually any document--no matter how many copies you need to send or print.

The menu bar disappeared from Microsoft Word on my computer. The ALT key sequences will not bring up the menus as they are supposed to. I still have the menu bars in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. I ...

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m new to Office 2007. And much as I like it for the most part, a few features seem hell-bent on annoying me. One of them is Word 2007’s little on-the-spot editing toolbar, ...

If you have too many cells across a particular row or too many rows in a column in your Microsoft Word table, a quick way to decrease the number of cells or rows is to use the Tables and Borders ...

When we open a document in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel, its name is displayed on the Title Bar of Word and Excel respectively. When we create a new document or spreadsheet, its default name is ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.