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You can open a CSV file like any other Word document since it is a text file.  If all the information is text information it's relatively easy.  But if it contains numeric values you might have to work a little. The following information came from a spreadsheet...

Actually, you can.  Right-click on the image and select Save as picture... I tried it with two different image formats, jpg and png, and then inserted the saved images into a separate document.  In both cases, Word recognized the image type when it was saving them. ...

Probably the easiest way to do this in versions of Word later than 2007 is to create a table with one cell and fit the image into the table.  Check the width of the image on the Picture Tools Format tab. Click on the image, and then on the Insert tab, select Table and...

You can use something called a Style Separator, which is a special form of a hidden paragraph mark. According to Microsoft, this is what the Style Separator is used for: The style separator is a newly introduced feature since Word 2002 and Word 2003. Style separator...

Sure, you can do this for a style.  I'll set up the style with the name 'Code' by defining a quick style here. After selecting the text and right-clicking, choose Styles and Save Selection as a New Quick Style....  When the Create New Style from Formatting box...

To convert a table to text, select the table and on the Table Layout tab on the ribbon click on Convert to Text. Depending on how your table is set up, choose how to separate the text.  Because this table information is in columns, the option for Tabs is selected....

In the following example, there are several commas that are missing spaces before the next word. You can do a Find and Replace to fix this. Copy the following wildcard string and paste it into the Find What section. (,)([! ]) Copy the following string and paste it...

If you want to link to another spot in your document, make sure that you set it up correctly. In this example, I’ve got three bullets that I want to link to sections further in my document. I’ll go to the first section that I want to jump to and create a bookmark....

It helps if you can see the non-printing characters.  To make them display, click on the Paragraph Symbol mark in the Paragraph section of the Home tab. You can select that paragraph symbol with the mouse.  At that point you can click on Bold and also another color if...

Click on the Insert menu and select Chart. Select the Chart type you want. In this example, the type is Pie in 3D. Click OK. An sample Excel worksheet opens with sample data. How much data depends on what type of chart you chose. Start replacing the sample labels and...

With Word 2010 and later you can use the Remove Background feature. Click on the image and select Remove Background from the Picture Format tab. Word will try to guess which part of the image is the background, and it will mark the area with a magenta fill. It will...