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 ...

Style: It matters as much for your Word documents as it does for how you dress every day. Your work could be great, but it won’t stand out if you stick with the dull, gray sea of Calibri 11 text in ...

Using Word styles will help you work more efficiently and create consistent documents that are easy to maintain and modify. There are two ways to format a Word document. You can apply formatting ...

Until everyone starts speaking Esperanto, there will be a more or less constant need for document translation services. Indeed, I find myself running documents through websites like Google Translate ...

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 ...

When creating a document in Microsoft Word for print binding, you must allow for added margin space in the area of the page that falls within the spine of the finished product. Word calls this area ...

Google Docs is getting a new formatting related feature aimed to make it simpler and faster to format a document. The company has already started rolling out the new formatting options to all Google ...

[This is a guest post by Evan Snider, a doctoral fellow in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech. His research interests include visual communication, digital writing, and professional writing ...