Word is heavily used by all Microsoft Office users and customization of menu, recent documents and start screen allow you to save a lot of time.

By default, Word save all documents in the newest format (*.docx), but you can change the default format to doc or anything else.

When you first start most of the Office 2013 applications, you'll see a new feature called the Start screen.

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

By default, Word shows document tooltips (or screentips) when you hover on a button, but this option can be turned off.

You should display the Developer tab when you want to write macros, run macros that you previously recorded, or create applications to use with Microsoft Office programs. Do the following:

To make documents easier to identify via searches, and to help the Windows Indexing Service to store the appropriate key information about documents, you can enter property information.

Writing simple and easy to understand documents is a unique ability that lays somewhere between art and science. Microsoft Word can help you to improve you writing skills by providing readability statistic metrics.

If you are the one of those who care about productivity of the work and tend to use keyboard instead of using a mouse to open menus and run commands, you might be interested how to reveal keyboard shortcuts and add more shortcuts to Word.

When you need as much space as possible on screen to view a document, you can collapse (or minimize) the Ribbon and then restore it very simple.