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It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

If you're looking to get away from Microsoft Word, and Microsoft, or if you're just looking to support a free and open-source project, there are a dizzying array of solid options out there. Here are ...

Scroll bars make it easy to access the parts of your document that don't fit on the current screen view and enable you to scan a long document. Each document has two scroll bars: One runs vertically ...

Task panes are interfaces that usually appear on the right side of the window within Microsoft Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel). Task panes provide users access to interface ...

Occasionally, a requirement simply can’t be easily met with the built-in features. Microsoft Word fields are similar to little bits of code that have a specific job. They return values that you can’t ...

The OS X text-editor market is burgeoning, especially with the advent of the Mac App Store and the capability to store documents on iCloud (and otherwise in the cloud). These writing apps range from ...

Yesterday we heard word that Microsoft is planning to bring the Microsoft Office suite to iPad, but how will Microsoft adopt Office’s clean ribbon interface to a tablet? Here’s your exclusive first ...

How to remove the visual clutter in Microsoft Word Here’s how you can get rid of the visual clutter at the top of the Microsoft Word interface. 1. Go to Preferences and then Ribbon. 2. Uncheck “Turn ...