If Em Dash shortcut is not working in Word, employ the Universal Alt Code, create a Foolproof AutoCorrect Entry, etc.

The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

There’s no need to trudge through the same steps in Microsoft Word again and again. Macros can automate a wide range of tasks, from inserting and formatting text to changing program preferences. You ...

If the "Restart Office to apply changes to your privacy settings" message keeps popping up on your Windows 11/10 PC, use the fixes listed in this detailed guide.

Whether you've worked with Microsoft Word for years, or have just begun mastering it, you may leave many of its preferences set to their defaults, rather than figure out how or whether to change them.

Overstrike is an old printing term that usually referred to stamping a character twice in the same spot to make the character look darker, or stamping one type of ...

Q On two different new computers, I've created Word files and they're automatically saved with the extension ".docx." What is that? When I send these files via e-mail, no one can open them. Can you ...

The beginning of the year is a great time to do some basic cyber hygiene. We've all been told to patch, change passwords, and update software. But one concern that has been increasingly creeping to ...

You may recall that Microsoft disabled automatic Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) in Word back in December. I wrote about the problem and its solution in “Office as a malware delivery platform: DDE, ...