Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.

Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few customizations, you can make changes that better suit ...

If you work with Microsoft Word 2011, you may find the program’s toolbars and ribbon practical ways to access functions you use often, such as formatting, alignment, and highlighting. But the toolbars ...

Calling all Word 2003 (and earlier) users: The more toolbars you've got stacked up, the less space you have for viewing your actual document. So rid the word processor of the ones you seldom use. Here ...

Word's Mail Merge feature isn't just for creating form letters and address labels; you can use it to quickly personalize virtually any document--no matter how many copies you need to send or print.

Q. I want to create mailing labels from a list of names–with addresses–I have saved in Microsoft Word, but my rather substantial efforts to find a solution hit a brick wall. I went to the Microsoft ...

The menu bar disappeared from Microsoft Word on my computer. The ALT key sequences will not bring up the menus as they are supposed to. I still have the menu bars in Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. I ...

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m new to Office 2007. And much as I like it for the most part, a few features seem hell-bent on annoying me. One of them is Word 2007’s little on-the-spot editing toolbar, ...

In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste. They don’t appear in the latest version of Word. Do you know how to make them appear? The key to populating Word’s ...