Inserting a table of contents is quite a simple process and finding the option in the first place can be one of the trickiest bits. Clicking this third option allows you to create your own styles. The styles viewing pane can be found under Home > Styles and on the right-hand side of the pane are three arrows – up, down and down with a line above the arrow. Once you’ve got your styles set up, you can apply them straightaway within your document. This can be particularly useful in a longer document and will help you to avoid having to scroll back through pages of text in order to find the particular formatting you want to copy. While they can seem a little daunting at first, they’re really just a way of pre-defining things like font size, font colour, line spacing, etc. ‘Styles’ are basically a more advanced form of the ‘Format Painter’ tool. Double-clicking will keep the option turned on and let you to copy the same formatting multiple times. Clicking on the option once allows you to copy the formatting a single time before the tool disables. It’s quick and easy to use you just need to highlight the formatting you want to copy, select the ‘Format Painter’ tool (Home > Clipboard > Format Painter) and then click on the text that you want to apply it to. ‘Clear All Formatting’ takes the problem out of your hands with the click of a button (Home > Font > ‘Clear All Formatting’ icon in the upper right-hand corner).Ĭontinuing on the formatting theme, ‘Format Painter’ allows you to copy formatting from one location to another. Having to change the font size, font type, font colour and line spacing each time is a time-consuming process – and you can sometimes end up with elements that you can’t change, no matter how hard you try. the internet) into Word then you may have noticed that you don’t just get the words: you get all of the formatting as well. Why is this so useful? Well, if you’ve ever copied and pasted text from somewhere else (e.g. As the name suggests, this feature quickly and easily removes all formatting from selected text, taking it back to the default settings. ‘Clear All Formatting’ is, in our humble opinion, one of the best changes made to Word since the removal of the infamous paperclip. It should be noted that we’re working with Word 2016 for this article, so if you have an earlier version then some of the features may not be available. We’ll be talking about some of our favourites in this article, which should hopefully help to make your time with Word more efficient and effective.
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