Word Annoyances

How can I change settings, turn features off or on, and alter the way Word behaves?

How do I get Word to stop helping me type?

How do I tell the Office Assistant to go away?

How do I turn off the automatic URLs?

The Word Screen

The toolbars and the menus in my old version of Word looked different. What happened?

What are Word XP Task Panes?

What's going on with the document windows when I have more than one file open?

How can I find out the names of the buttons on the toolbars?

How can I find out what the buttons on the toolbars do?

Can I turn the Ruler off (or turn it back on)?

How can I display more toolbars?

How do I move the toolbars?

Can I add or remove buttons from the toolbars?

Can I make my own toolbars?

Can I add or remove items from the menus?

Default Settings

What is the Normal Template?

How do I control what happens when I start Word?

How do I change the default margins?

How do I change the default document font?

How do I change the default font for things like page numbers, headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes?

How do I change the default folder for Open and Save?

How do I change the default printer tray assignments?

Editing

How do I find Word's keyboard shortcuts?

Can I copy more than one block of text to the clipboard, then paste everything into my document?

What are styles? How do I use them?

What is AutoText?

Can I "Search and Replace" for things other than words?

Track Changes and Versioning

How can I track changes made to a document?

Can I keep different versions of a document in the same file?

Will Word help me compare two similar documents?

Formatting and Page Layout

How can I diagnose formatting problems?

How do I clear the formatting in a paragraph or block of text?

How do I insert a footnote or an endnote?

How do I delete a footnote or an endnote?

How do I move or copy a footnote or an endnote?

How do I use headers and footers?

How do I double-space my document?

How do I change the margins?

How do I change the format of the number symbols in a numbered list without changing the rest of the text?

How do I make a numbered list that looks like an outline?

How to I put a horizontal line in my document that moves when I add new text?

Pages, Paragraphs and Columns

How do I number pages?

How do I delete page numbers?

How do I remove the page number from the first page?

How do I insert or delete a page break?

How do I keep a paragraph from separating at the page break?

How do I indent a paragraph?

How do I set tabs?

How do I control where a column ends?

Why are my columns not lined up when I print?

Can I have different page formatting within one document?

Tables and Indexes

How do I create a table?

How do I create a Table of Contents?

How do I create an Index?

Spelling, Grammar, and Languages

How do I switch between languages (proof text in different languages)?

How do I tell the Speller to skip the parts of my document that are not in English?

The Speller won't check my spelling. What happened?

How do I type the accented characters?

Is there a faster way than the Thesaurus to find synonyms?

Pictures and Charts

How do I put a picture in my document?

How do I put a watermark on a document?

How do put an Excel chart in my document?

Other Types of Documents

What are Templates? How do I use them? How do I make a template? How do I edit a template?

Can I use Word to make a "real" outline?

What is Mail Merge? How do I perform a Mail Merge?

How can I combine several Word documents into a single document?

Can I use Word to make a web page?

How do I share a document with someone who doesn't have my version of Word?

WordPerfect Users

I like WordPerfect. Where are the "Reveal Codes"?

Can Word open WordPerfect files?

Are there any settings that would help a WordPerfect user learn Word?

In WordPerfect, I could point to a blank part of the page and start typing. Can Word do that?