One of the most common word-processing mistakes is using spaces to align text. Using tabs ensures that your text is aligned perfectly and makes it much easier to modify settings.

By default, hyperlinks are used with pressing or holding Ctrl. But you can turn off this function.

When you're working with the buttons on your toolbars, you might want to change the look of a button you're adding or copying.

Saving your document in the same location with the same name is easy.

If you choose to use the grammar checker rather than turn it off completely, tell it which grammar items you want it to check and which you don't.

As you work on a document, you normally see the results of the field codes that you've inserted instead of the actual codes themselves. Because of this, these field results may be difficult to distinguish from normal text, so Word has added a feature called shading that helps you to locate such results.