As a general rule, I recommend using as little direct formatting in Microsoft Word as possible. It’s hard to track and, if you change your mind, you can find yourself with a tedious and time-consuming ...

I stopped wrestling with Word styles and switched to Typst for cleaner document formatting.

Using Word styles will help you work more efficiently and create consistent documents that are easy to maintain and modify. There are two ways to format a Word document. You can apply formatting ...

When creating a document in Microsoft Word for print binding, you must allow for added margin space in the area of the page that falls within the spine of the finished product. Word calls this area ...

After years of marginal acceptance, e-books have finally started to eclipse their printed-and-bound ancestors. Casual and sophisticated readers alike are growing much more accustomed to reading from a ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a Microsoft Word document that just doesn’t look quite right. Maybe the text feels cramped, the formatting is inconsistent, or that image you inserted refuses to stay ...

Google Docs is getting a new formatting related feature aimed to make it simpler and faster to format a document. The company has already started rolling out the new formatting options to all Google ...

[This is a guest post by Evan Snider, a doctoral fellow in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech. His research interests include visual communication, digital writing, and professional writing ...