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From the Insert menu select Footer. Once the Footer Design tab is displayed, click on Quick Parts and select Field… When the Field dialog box opens, you can select Document Information from the Categories section to narrow down the list of fields. The one you’re...

With Word’s Thesaurus, you can look up synonyms of words (different words with the same meaning) and antonyms (words with the opposite meaning). Just right-click on a word. In this example, the word is adolescence, and the synonyms are listed to give you other...

A drop cap is the first letter of a paragraph that is much larger than the surrounding text. Drop caps are traditionally used in printed books, newspaper articles, and also web pages. A drop cap can be sized so that is as large as the first few lines of text. Here is...

You can draw a text box on top of an image and enter text right into it. In the following example is an image and below it some text.   From the Insert tab, click on Text Box and then Draw Text Box. Draw a textbox directly on top of the image. Cut and Paste the...

If you need to insert an equation in Word, position your cursor where you want the equation to appear and go to the Insert tab.  If you click on the arrow to the right of Equation, a group of built-in equations will appear. If you don't see what you want, click on...