Each year, hundreds of thousands of American teenagers compete to be the best at Word, Excel and PowerPoint and win up to $US3000 ($3907) in the Microsoft Office Specialist US National Championship. It's organised by Certiport, a testing company that offers certifications in software such as MS Office, AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite. We asked this year's first-place winners for their best Office tips.
So you're still using Microsoft Word. Seems like an odd decision in the year 2017, but I didn't come here to judge. I'm legitimately curious why some people continue to pump their money into the MS Office Suite, despite mounting evidence that the software offers shitty security and a historically terrible user experience. So why bother?
We're huge advocates of keyboard shortcuts here at Lifehacker. They only take a few minutes to learn and result in hours of regained productivity time over the long run. Here are 60 essential keyboard shortcuts every office worker should commit to memory.
Microsoft Word is a beloved application used by typists all over the world. The program is packed with with all kinds of features, many of which you might never come across when you're typing up a report, short story, essay, or whatever else you might be working on. To help you uncover some of the lesser-known tricks the software is capable of, we present a bunch of our current favourites. Here are 18 tricks that will turn you into a master of Microsoft Word.
If you use Microsoft Word for work, or on any regular basis, you know how much time a couple of quick shortcuts can save you, especially if you use them every day. This graphic runs down eight tips for Word that may be familiar to daily drivers, but still useful for students, office workers, and resume builders alike.
Last week, we walked you through how to get started quickly with, make the most of, and master every app in Microsoft Office. Maybe you missed one, or want a quick guide to all of them. Well, here you go.
Microsoft Word is easily the biggest, most popular word processing program available, but it does a lot more than just edit text and TPS reports. If you've been telling yourself that you'll finally learn Word's ins and outs, now's the time to actually learn how to edit styles and add a table of contents.
Need some filler text in a word document and tired of typing "blah, blah blah"? As it turns out you don't even have to go to the internet for some good old Lorem Ipsum -- Word is able to generate a number of different types of filler text for you with a simple command.
When you're writing a long research paper or article, chances are, you'll need to rearrange some paragraphs during the editing process. There's a simple way to do this in Microsoft Word: number your paragraphs, then sort them by number.
Collaboration is a key element of good document creation in most workplaces. Like most features in Microsoft Word, the collaboration tools are powerful, but they can be frustrating to use until you learn how they work and how to make the best of them.
A good resume can land you that job interview, so you want to stand out. If formatting a resume isn't your thing, Hloom has 275 free Microsoft Word templates to download.
This little trick will automatically open the most recent document you opened in Word. It'll save you a bit of time especially if you tend to only work on one doc at a time.
Say you need to make some quick edits to a photo or screenshot, but you're on a public or work computer with no image editors installed. Where can you turn?
It's long been the the norm for schools and universities to insist we hand in papers with double-spaced text. Don't waste time wading through the Format options, because there's a way to single-space or double-space a document with one quick shortcut.
Microsoft Word. The name's practically synonymous with "productivity app". If you're reading this article at work you've probably got a Word doc open right now, and you might think you've got a good handle on Microsoft's word processor. We'll bet you don't know as much as you think you do. Don't believe us? Read on for 10 quick tips and tricks for Microsoft Word.
Rather than keep multiple files, to-do lists, and longer notes on something coming up, consider using a Word file in the "Outline View" to create a nested, expandable personal wiki-style organiser. It's how one Lifehacker reader rolls.
Microsoft Word has a hidden feature that most people probably don't know about: a way to collect text on the clipboard from multiple locations, and then paste it all at once into your document.
