When you open a Microsoft Word document, the page appears blank, offering you what seems like an endless array of options. What may not be so obvious is that Word's made a lot of choices for you ...

My firm’s policy is to justify the text of all reports. Although the pages do look a lot neater with the type lined up on the right and left, some lines look too spaced out and others sometimes appear ...

I've been sent a Word document which I need to edit but it looks bloody weird with humungous character spacing. The document originates from Japan which I suspect might have something to do with it.

You can get a character count in a Word document by selecting the "Review" tab and clicking "Word Count." You can find both the number of characters with spaces and the character count not including ...

Although Microsoft Word adjusts the sentence and word spacing automatically when you paste something, it doesn’t adjust the same for the entire paragraphs. It may create problems when you need to edit ...

Everyone knows what a hyphen is. It’s the graphic character to the right of the 0 on your keyboard that connects two words or indicates that a word is wrapped to the next line at the right margin.

Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...

“Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.” So began former Slate writer Farhad Manjoo’s infamous 2011 tirade. And while ...