The following is a re-post from an earlier article we published on customizing the Quick Access Toolbar so that the pen is easier to access in Office 2007: One of the frustrating things about Office ...

There are three ways to check your word count in Microsoft Word. You can find your word count in Microsoft Word at the bottom of the window, or by opening the "Review" menu. If you add word count to ...

You can get a character count in a Word document by selecting the "Review" tab and clicking "Word Count." You can find both the number of characters with spaces and the character count not including ...

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

Instead of opening a separate window to change fonts in Word, you can use the Font drop-down menu on the "Home" tab. If you want to shave even more time off font switching, however, you can add the ...

These charts accompany our story Word 2010 cheat sheet. Click through to that story for detailed information on getting up and running with Word 2010. If you’ve upgraded to Word 2010 directly from ...