Word’s standard Highlight Color button on the Home tab does the job for quick work, but it caps you at a mere 15 colors. The Draw tab’s Highlighter pen is a far more powerful tool hiding in plain sight. Turn on one setting you get the clean word alignment and find capability just like the […]
Microsoft Word has a built-in setting to enforce or ban the Oxford comma, also called the serial comma, and most people have no idea it exists. Whether you swear by that final comma in a list or consider it unnecessary clutter, Word can automatically flag any sentence that breaks your preferred rule. The setting works […]
Microsoft Word has a built-in grammar setting that decides where commas and periods should sit when they appear next to closing quotation marks. American English puts them inside the quotes. British English puts them outside. The Punctuation Required with Quotes setting in Word’s Grammar options lets you enforce whichever rule you follow, or none entirely […]
Multi-level lists in Microsoft Word look simple on the surface but hide a lot of complexity underneath. Whether your numbered headings keep resetting for no obvious reason, or you just want to understand why linking list levels to Heading styles makes everything more reliable, this guide cuts through the confusion. You will learn exactly how […]
If Word’s Navigation Pane and Table of Contents ever show different things, you’re not going crazy and Word isn’t broken. The reason is a distinction Microsoft rarely explains clearly: Heading styles and Outline Levels are two separate properties that usually go hand in hand, but don’t have to. Understanding which list uses which setting is […]
