Formatting

Die-hard WordPerfect users who switch to Word always want to know how to reveal codes. While Word has no equivalent feature, recent versions have introduced the Reveal Formatting feature. It pales in comparison to WordPerfect's Reveal Codes feature, it can prove useful nonetheless.

Sooner or later you will want to print your document on a different size paper than what you've specified in page setup. Fortunately, you can scale your paper to a different paper size -- perfect if you want to preserve the original page setup.

If you’re creating a document that contains columns created manually by using the tab key, you may want to include leader lines as part of your tab formatting. These dashed or solid lines will improve the readability of your document, guiding the readers eye to related information.

Seeing the text "Ref" or "MERGEFORMAT" in your Microsoft Word 2003 documents? Here's a fix.

Word provides the means to format the contents of fields inserted into the document, by the use of 'switches' or masks. The full range of these switches can be found at the end of this page......

Sometimes Word 2002 pops up with strange units of measurement which clutter the ruler with tiny divisions that bear no relationship to the preferred measurements set in tools > options > general. These are known as character units.