Microsoft Word has a handful of different ways to adjust margins, formatting and spacing. Use these steps to indent half an inch in Word. Open your document. Click inside the paragraph that you want to indent. Select the Layout tab at the top of the window. Click inside the Left field under Indent and enter […]

Adding a link to Microsoft Word is a great way to provide your readers with an external reference. Use these steps to put a link in Microsoft Word. Open your document. Select the text that you want to link. Click the Insert tab. Click the Link button. Enter your link into the Address field, then […]

The steps in this article are going to show you how to change paper size in Word. The default paper size for your Microsoft Word document is determined by your geographic location. The page size for new documents will be either letter paper size or A4 paper size. ​The Page Setup menu in Microsoft Word lets […]

The steps in this guide are going to show you how to put a fraction into Microsoft Word using the Equation tool. Click the Insert tab at the top of the window. Select the Equation option. Choose the Fraction button, then select the type of fraction. Click on the placeholders in the fraction and enter […]

Getting a Microsoft Word character count will take you to a screen that provides a lot of other useful information, such as the word count in the document. The number of characters in the Word document will be shown both with spaces and without spaces. We are going to describe how to count characters in […]

The steps in this guide are going to show you how to add a watermark to your document in Microsoft Word 2016. Choose the Design tab. Click the Watermark button in the Page Background group at the right side of the ribbon. Click the watermark option you wish to use. When you are working in a Microsoft Office product like Microsoft Word, you […]

Microsoft Word 2016, like several previous versions of Microsoft Word, includes a navigational ribbon at the top of the window. This ribbon is organized into a handful of tabs, which you can click to access some commands that help you edit your documents. This ribbon is an integral part of Microsoft Word, so its absence […]

The steps in this article are going to show you how to insert page numbers in Microsoft Word, then how to add your last name next to that page number. We cover the steps briefly at the top of the article, then continue below with additional information and pictures for each of the steps. Open […]

The steps in this guide will show you how to add a page border in Microsoft Word. We cover adding a page border briefly at the beginning of this article, then continue below with additional information, including pictures for each of the steps. Open the document in Microsoft Word. Select the Design tab at the top of the […]

This tutorial will show you how to add a border around a picture that you have inserted into your Microsoft Word document. We go over the steps briefly at the start of the article, then go into a bit more depth below with pictures. Open the document with the picture. Click the picture to select […]