Looked at the big Quick Styles box that dominates Word’s Home menu, and they Because at some point in their lives, they have Receive a doc from someone who has used Styles to make their document, I have (This really makes me wonder – why isn’t Microsoft doing more to help people understand Styles? Do they have training courses to sell or something?) Styles make it reallyĮasy to format your document, and to make your document look good. 1 Use Styles – Word’s most basic, powerful and ignored pro featureįirst tip is very, very basic. The tips here are for the Mac version of Word, but they should all be in the Windows version too (shortcuts etc.
That most people don’t know how to get the best out of Word. However – because I receive many Word documents from businesses every week – In many cases with shortcut keys that save a lot of time for heavy users like
Latest version (that’s 16.26 at the time of writing). Every single thing I want to do with it, I can do in the Plus, having to export everything to a Word doc to meet clients’ expectations was a pain. I even attempted to switch to Google Docs around 2012, but that solution was (and still is) missing lots of features that I need.
It was missing some convenience features that even Google Docs The Word of a few years ago was not a streamlinedĮxperience. Past 11 years I have used Microsoft Word for most of every workday.Ī rocky relationship.
