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 ...

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

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.

You can draw freely on Microsoft Word using the "Draw" feature whether you have Word for Mac or Windows.

ZDNET's key takeaways Word will save new documents to the cloud by default.AutoSave will also be enabled by default.You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft ...

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

A Microsoft 365 app will replace the existing Office app within Windows beginning next month, Microsoft said at its Microsoft Ignite conference today. That will usher in a welcome change to some ...

Disappearing toolbar Gavin E. Greenoak offers a simple workaround to for users who lose the Microsoft Word toolbar when switching the application from the foreground to background, or vice versa: "For ...

Instead of opening a separate window to change fonts in Word, you can use the Font drop-down menu on the "Home" tab. If you want to shave even more time off font switching, however, you can add the ...