Maintaining document formatting can be quite challenging when working with text from multiple sources. Fortunately, Microsoft Word provides you with special paste and formatting options to help you ...

Google Docs provides you with an online utility for text documents if you don't have a word processing program such as Word, in which you have many of the same options for formatting your documents as ...

Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones. In a blog post announcing the feature, Google says it’s ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

If you ever want to change the style of all the headings or captions in a document, bold all the italicized text, or otherwise fine-tune the formatting of your document in one swoop, Microsoft Word ...

Peter S. Chamberlain asked for a way, in Microsoft Word, to automatically manage the formatting of “a lot of text.” The Styles feature in Microsoft Word is one of a handful of tools that keep me from ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

You can use HTML elements to format text in various ways; for example: Bold text using <b>. Indicate strong importance, seriousness, or urgency using <strong ...