Ages ago, hyphenation was a common and useful feature in a word processor. It was part of the paragraph feature that adjusted long words, splitting them to make a line of text look better. Microsoft Word still offers this feature, although it’s disabled and rarely used.
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The Wambooli Word Week trifecta ends with this post listing some interesting document-saving options.
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It must be Word Week here at Wambooli, because this is the second Microsoft Word post in a row. (And, yes, a third one is coming Friday.) Today’s post concerns a question I’ve pondered before: Why does Word feature a Highlighter command?
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One of the most common questions I get regarding Microsoft Word is how to remove a “line” from text. The problem ranks high because not everything you call a “line” is what Word calls a “line.”
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Microsoft Word is a word processor, yet it freely allows you to commit the sacrilege of placing an image into your text. As long as you’re going to sin, consider adding a caption to that image, which isn’t the most obviously task to accomplish.
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