Microsoft Word includes formatting options that allow you to view all types of normally invisible marks, such as spaces, tabs and paragraphs. For instance, instead of having a blank space in place of ...

Formatting is important, because it improves readability and sometimes emphasizes a document's purpose. That means that we spend a lot of time applying formats. Here are three tips will help you work ...

If you see spots, and paragraph marks, and other formatting characters in your Microsoft Word documents, making them go away is easy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

The columns feature built into Word enables you to vary the layouts of your documents, but if something goes wrong then it can be difficult to get the end result you want. Switching on hidden ...

Formatting symbols have suddenly appeared on all my Word documents. What did I do? I've tried Help and Wizard but haven't found a way of hiding them. Christine Highmoor, by email It sounds as though ...

A reader wants to know why his Microsoft Word has suddenly started sporting a mysterious grid Formatting symbols have suddenly appeared on all my Word documents. What did I do? I've tried Help and ...

If you've worked with Word much at all, you know how frustrating it can be getting formatting just the way you want it. While you can't remove all of the frustration, you can eliminate a lot of it by ...

How to Use Section Breaks to Control Formatting in Word Your email has been sent Microsoft Word supports section breaks, so you can easily change document level formatting from one group of pages to ...

Years of frustration for Microsoft Word users could finally be at an end after the company announced an update to fix one of its most irritating quirks. Going forward, the default option when pasting ...