Tag: Microsoft Word

How to Format Headings with Styles in Word
In Microsoft Word, a “style” is a collection of one or more pieces of formatting information. Styles are especially helpful when you use them to format your headings.
27 January 2020
How to Quickly Number Pages for Long Essays in Word
The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style long essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.
18 November 2019
How to Quickly Number Pages for Short Essays in Word
The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style short essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.
11 November 2019
Change Word Styles to Direct Formatting in 10 Steps
One of the best ways to ensure consistent formatting in a Word document is to use styles.1 But, you might also need to be able to turn these styles into “direct” formatting. If you apply a style to text, the text will be formatted as the style specifies (e.g., a first-level heading, a block quotation).…
3 December 2018
Prefix keys for Microsoft Word
In Dan Gookin’s Word 2016 for Dummies (affiliate disclosure; Wiley, 2016), he provides a good deal of helpful guidance for beginning Word users. One particularly helpful resource that may be of interest more broadly is his nicely condensed presentation of prefix keys for producing diacritical marks (pg. 256, reproduced below). As the name suggests, the prefix…
24 July 2017
Word 2016 introduction for Mac users?
The “for dummies” series has a couple good introductions to Microsoft Word (for all and specifically “for professionals”). But, these texts seem to concentrate on Word as it appears in Windows, which is sometimes surprisingly inconsistent with how ostensibly the same version of Word appears in Mac OS. The similarly themed “idiot’s guides” series also…
17 July 2017