Five tips for customizing and editing Word documents on your PC

Word is a complete text editor with advanced features. Some simple tools can make your job easier when editing a file and thus improving your productivity. With just a few clicks, you can for example copy the formatting from one paragraph to another, find out how many words the document or text selection contains, insert pictures from the Internet, apply themes, and find hidden functions.

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See five simple, easy-to-use functions that can help you customize and edit your documents in Word. The images were made in Office 2016.

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Copy the formatting

When pasting a text into Word, it may be in a different style than the rest of the document - font size, font, color, line spacing, paragraph, and more. However, with just a few clicks, you can apply the desired formatting. To do this, simply position the text cursor over the style you want to use and click the "Format Painter" button. Finally, select the text in which the formatting should be applied.

Using the Formatting Brush

Know how many words you wrote

Some academic papers have a minimum or maximum number of words. You can control this by looking at the count in the Word status bar in the lower left corner of the window. You can keep track of the total amount of words your document contains in real time. If you want to know the specific stretch count of the text, just select it.

Viewing the number of words in the document or selection

Add photos from the Internet

You do not need to open your browser, search for an image, save it to your PC, and then insert it into your Word document. You can shorten this path and add a direct Internet photo to the file. Microsoft software works with the Bing search service to give you access to multiple images faster.

Simply position the text cursor where you want the image to be. Now open the "Insert" tab and click "Online Images". Finally, just look for the photo you want to use.

Adding photos from the Internet

Choose a theme for your document

Word allows the user to change the look of the document in a few clicks. The Microsoft text editor has a gallery with several themes ready to be applied. On the "Design" tab, click "Themes" and choose one of your preference. This instantly changes the font, color, and size of your text titles.

How to add themes in Word documents

Find functions quickly

Word is a complete application with several features. For this reason, it is not always easy to find what we are looking for. To facilitate this search, you can click on "Tell me what you want to do" and enter the command you are trying to find. That way, it's easy to find a function that you do not know where the icon is, but you know the name of the feature.

How to Find Functions in Word

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