Microsoft Word provides you with a number of tools to format the text and other objects that you add to the body of your document. But some of these objects behave a little differently than standard document text, specifically text boxes. If you discover that a text box or the text within it is problematic,… Continue Reading How to Delete a Text Box in Word 2013
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. Microsoft… Continue Reading How to Disable the Drag and Drop Word 2013 Feature
While many changes or edits that you make to a picture will occur in an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Paint, you may not have access to an application like that. Fortunately, you can use the picture tools in Microsoft Word to make some changes to your images, including adding a picture… Continue Reading How to Add Border to Picture in Word 2013
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. These formatting… Continue Reading How to Remove Paragraph Marks in Word 2013
There are a couple of ways that you can draw attention to a specific selection in your Word document. Some people will use Bold or italic text, but others will elect to use the text highlighting feature instead. This is a formatting option in Word that will place a chosen background color behind a text… Continue Reading How to Undo Highlighting in Word 2013
It’s a common design choice to apply a fill color to cells in an Excel spreadsheet when you are trying to use colors as a means of identification. While conditional formatting is a popular way to accomplish this in Excel, you may also elect to add fill color manually. Text boxes are helpful little document… Continue Reading How to Remove Fill Color in Excel Text Box in Microsoft Excel 2013