Styles

Why is Microsoft Word not saving changes I make to styles…

when I Save, Close and later Open a document. We’ve talked a lot about the power of styles in Microsoft Word in the last few weeks. They give you the ability to control the structure and the appearance of your document with just a few clicks. Today’s Tip, however, is about those times when your… Keep Reading

Creating Fill-in-the-Blank Forms in Microsoft Word

Every office has a need to create a form at one time or another. The old days of using the underscore key are long gone, and now everyone wants to be able to complete the form using their computer. If you’ve ever been tasked with making a form, you know how difficult it can be… Keep Reading

Creating Custom Styles in Microsoft Word

Styles add a lot of power to your ability to produce professional looking documents with ease. They’re not a requirement, but every power-user knows about them and uses them. I’ve shown you how to Apply Styles to Text, Use Style Sets and Revise Styles in previous Tips, but today I’m going to show you how… Keep Reading

Revising Styles in Microsoft Word

Styles are the way to strong-arm any document into shape quickly, efficiently and easily. You’ve been using them all along whether you know it or not because every Microsoft Word document starts off using the Normal style as its default. If you don’t know how to apply a style to a paragraph or a piece… Keep Reading

Using Style Sets in Microsoft Word

When we start talking about Styles in Microsoft Word, we are separating the Structure from the Content. Content, of course, is all of that fascinating verbiage you’ve written. Structure controls how the document lays out, and what the content looks like. If you picture any traditional newspaper, you know that there is a structure upon… Keep Reading

Applying Styles to Text in Microsoft Word

Styles add a lot of power to your ability to produce professional looking documents with ease. Where you once may have struggled to change fonts and text effects on a large document, now you can do it with just a few clicks. The process of applying styles to text is called Tagging, as in the… Keep Reading