Why styles matter: Using built‑in styles and themes keeps formatting consistent, improves readability, and makes global changes effortless. Format smarter: Features like Format Painter, Quick Parts, ...

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: ...

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 ...