You can easily and quickly add captions to a picture, table or equation. Once you have created the caption you can cross reference it anywhere in the document. The ‘Insert Caption’ command is located in the Reference tab, in the

You can use the Status Bar to display useful information. Right click the bottom bar of your document to make the Status Bar settings pane appear. Select the options you want shown. Then click outside the Status Bar setting pane.

Word allows you to write out equations right in the text field, as well as find out what the equation’s total is. You only need to set up Calculator. To do this, go to File Options Quick Access toolbar. Select

Many of today’s users prefer using the keyboard for as many functions as possible. If you are this type of user, here is a keyboard short cut for removing some different types of formatting quickly and easily. If you prefer

When you want to use numbered or bulleted lists, but each point requires more than one paragraph, use Shift + Enter to insert a blank line. Learn to create better documents with a Word training class from AETC!

One common frustration with Word auto-formatting is that it continues the numbering between two lists. In the example below, Microsoft numbered the first point of the second list number 5 instead of 1. To Fix this, just right click on

Creating your own custom bullet points can be very useful. For example, our scopes of work require milestones, which we list like this.You can create your own custom bullet points. First, type out your information using standard bullet points. Highlight

One common annoyance with Word is that images pasted into a Word document are by default positioned in-line with text. This creates huge text breaks around each image. To manually change this option, first, select the image. Then, in the