Word makes it surprisingly hard to see a full list of styles in a document. There’s no tidy panel that lays out every style and shows how they connect to each other. The only option built into Word is a hidden Print setting that produces a long, flat report that’s a chore to read. The […]
Making an index in Word by hand gets tedious fast, but Word hides three real time savers most people never touch. In this second part of our indexing guide we show you how to mark an index entry that spans a range of pages using bookmarks, why Word fills your document with hidden {XE} tags […]
An index is the alphabetical list of terms and page numbers at the back of a book, and Microsoft Word can build one for you. We show you how to make an index in Word, starting with the basics: preparing your document, marking index entries and generating a simple, professional looking index. It takes some […]
Microsoft Office lets you drop an SVG graphic into Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then recolor the whole thing and nothing more. Want the circle orange and the bar black? The fix is simpler than you would guess: open the SVG in Notepad or any plain text editor, change a few color values, delete or hide […]
Word now lets you choose which AI runs Copilot, but Microsoft does a poor job of explaining what the choices actually do. The Copilot model picker in Word offers Auto, two Anthropic Claude models and OpenAI’s GPT in Quick Response or Think Deeper flavors. Here is what each Copilot model in Word is good at, […]
