Have you ever been trying to work with a document in Word 2013, but you aren’t able to put a document element in the right spot on the page? This is likely occurring because that element is outside the text boundaries of the document. Note every visible part of a document page can be used […]

Have you ever been proofreading a document that you wrote and discovered that an entire phrase, sentence, or paragraph seemed to be completely misplaced? While you might think that you were distracted or made some kind of inexplicable mistake, it’s more likely that you accidentally dragged and dropped that information in the wrong spot. The […]

Pictures can be a great addition to many types of documents that you can create in Word 2013. But many pictures can seem to fade into the background of the document, or a picture might have a white background that doesn’t look quite right when placed upon a document with its own white background. Fortunately […]

Horizontal lines are a great way to break up sections of a document. You have probably seen others use this object to great effect, and you now find yourself editing a document where those horizontal lines would be helpful. Perhaps you have determined that a line full of underscore characters is the best way to […]

Are you seeing strange symbols in your Microsoft Word document, but you can’t seem to delete them or, if you do delete them, it reconfigures your document in a way that you don’t want? The strange symbols you are seeing are actually formatting marks, and they indicate things like paragraphs and bulleted lists. Fortunately you […]

Text boxes are helpful little document elements that can be beneficial when you need to add something to your document that isn’t working properly within the confines of the standard document layout. You can customize the text box without modifying the rest of your document, which offers some great options in terms of design. However, […]

Microsoft Excel is very helpful when you have a lot of data that you want to sort or manipulate. But you may find yourself working with text in a document, and you need to be able to sort that text alphabetically. While you might have considered copying and pasting that information into Excel, sorting it […]

Watermarks are commonly used to identify a document as a draft, or to mark it as something urgent that requires immediate attention. Additionally, some organizations will use custom image watermarks that display the company logo. While these can be useful, your specific needs might dictate the removal of any existing watermark. Fortunately the menu that […]

When you copy something from a program on your Windows computer, it is copied to the clipboard. Then, when you decide later to paste that copied bit into a document, you paste it from the clipboard. You may not have previously considered the clipboard to be a physical or accessible part of your computer, but […]

When you double-click a file on your computer, Windows will choose to open that file in whichever program is currently set as the default option for the file type. For files with the .doc or .docx file type, as well as some other text file types, this is often Microsoft Word. However, if you have […]