While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

Q. I’ve created a Word document with multiple chapters, and I want to insert different headers and footers for each chapter. However, each time I create a new header, it changes my previous headers.

If your organization has conventions for correspondence, you might have to change the margins every time you open a new Microsoft Word document. By default, they’re set to one inch, but setting custom ...

How to align header or footer content to the left and right margins in Microsoft Word Your email has been sent Sometimes alignment tabs aren’t enough if the aligned text stretches to the other margin.

The battle of Word vs. Google Docs is usually over before it begins, with the spoils awarded to Microsoft’s venerable word processor and its huge feature set. But the size of the toolbox isn’t always ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...