250 Answered Questions for the topic Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word Linux
04/20/19
Markdown to Word/PDF converter for Linux?
Does anyone know of a good Markdown to Word Converter? It would be great if it also converts to PDF.
04/20/19
Can I lock (or make uneditable) portions of a word document?
I am looking to make a letterhead for my company. Right now I currently have an image within the header of the document and an image within the footer of the document.Is there any way I can lock...
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04/20/19
Change default style of a caption in Word?
When inserting a figure or table, you can add a caption. It has some default styling that you can edit in the Quick Styles pane. By default in Word 2013 this is a 9pt italic font. Unfortunately,...
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Microsoft Word Formatting
04/20/19
How to hide text formatting popup (Mini Toolbar) in Microsoft Word 2007?
In Microsoft Word 2007 when you select a piece of text, a pop-up toolbar will display containing the common font formatting tools like font-name, font-size, bold, italic, etc. (The Mini Toolbar.)...
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04/20/19
Syntax highlighting in Microsoft Office Word?
How do I easily highlight the syntax of PHP code in Word? I need to paste some code (ANSI C) in Microsoft Office Word, and I need some form of syntax highlighting (instead of simply changing the...
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Typing in Arabic is tedious. Is there anyway that typing in Arabic can be a smoother process?
I realized that typing documents in Arabic script on Microsoft Word is a tedious process. Selecting, formatting, aligning (among other things) Arabic text is a really inefficient process...
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Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts
04/19/19
Pressing tab to indent a list moves to the next table cell?
I have a list (e.g., a bulleted list) in Microsoft Word. This list is inside a table cell.When I press <kbd>Tab</kbd> toincrease the indent, rather than increasing the indent, it moves...
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04/16/19
Get Table of contents to include "title" style?
I know Word automatically generates a table of contents using heading levels 1 and 2. I was wondering if it was possible to make Word include the Title formatting also? I am using both Word 2010...
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Microsoft Word Microsoft Word 2010
04/12/19
Word 2010: One button save as PDF?
How can I set Word 2010 so that save as PDF is a 1 button (or key-stroke) option instead of the default 4-step `File > Save & Send > Create PDF/XPS Document > Create PDF/XPS` workflow?
Microsoft Word Microsoft Word 2010
04/11/19
Is there a keyboard shortcut to return to previous position?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to return to previous position?The Shift + F5 seems to be back to last "editing position", rather than the last position of the cursor.
Microsoft Word
04/07/19
How do I insert text above a table at the top of a Word document?
This seems like it should be so basic, but it apparently isn't very intuitive.**The scenario:** (1) I've inserted a table into a new blank MS-Word document. (2) I want to add some text outside and...
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Microsoft Word
04/06/19
How to create a footer with a chapter name and page number?
I'd like a footer that has not only page number, but also the chapter title (heading 1) depending on what chapter the page is in. How do I add the chapter info to the footer?
Microsoft Word Clipboard
04/05/19
Prevent Word from Including Bullet Letter when Copying Text?
I'm copying quite a bit of text from Word into a text-based application, line by line. The word text is structured like this: > 1. Topic a. Item A > b. Item B When I highlight `Item A`,...
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Microsoft Word Word
04/05/19
What are the steps to insert a circle within texts in MS Word?
Microsoft Word Spell Check
04/04/19
Word: Disable spell checker for a paragraph?
Is it possible to disable the automatic spell checker in MS Word 2010 for single paragraphs of a document or just for some parts of a document? I'd like to get rid of the squiggly lines in some...
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Microsoft Word
04/04/19
How to copy deleted text in MS Word?
I want to copy the text that is in revisions marked as deleted - and paste it to another document. But when I mark it with mouse and do Ctrl-C it says "The selection is marked as deleted text" and...
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04/04/19
How do I easily highlight the syntax of PHP code in Word?
How do I easily write and syntax-highlighted PHP code (or any others programming language) in a Word 2009 document?
04/04/19
How to change some of the numbers in word to be arabic numbers within Word?
I have a Word document.It has two parts: one English and one Arabic.The problem is that all the numbers are English numbers [0123456789], but I want the Arabic part's numbers to be Arabic numbers...
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Microsoft Word
04/03/19
How to swap two words in a Microsoft Word document?
I have a very long file which refers certain persons as Petitioners and certain persons as Respondents. I want to swap these two words so that the Petitioner is changed to Respondent, and vice...
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04/01/19
How to simultaneously rename a file in MS Office and delete old version?
In Microsoft Office, when wanting to save a file to a different file name without keeping a copy of the previous file name, doing so requires two steps: - First, File -> Save As... and select...
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03/27/19
Hotkey for insert equation to word 2010?
It's not so convenient to go to insert --> equation --> insert new equation everytime you want to create a new one. I guess there must be some hotkey to insert an inline equation at the...
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Microsoft Word Spell Check
03/27/19
Why does Microsoft Word mark contractions as a grammatical error?
The following is a small sample of the words MS Word marks as a grammatical error: don't, I've, I'd, doesn't, I'm. These are all contractions. However it doesn’t mark anything as a grammatical...
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03/26/19
How can you find out if .xlsx and .docx files are safe to open?
I have received an email from a not entirely trustworthy source, it might be legit but I'm not really sure. It contains, among other things, information on a `.docx` Microsoft Word file and a...
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