This lets you easily highlight all your ad hoc headings, captions, and so forth at once and tweak their appearance in a single swoop – or apply a style for easier management in the future. The Editing section, at the far right of the Home tab, includes the handy option to “Select all text with similar formatting”. But if you’ve relied on local formatting, it’s still easy to make global changes. In an ideal world, every element in your document would have a style assigned to it. Many of them have been in Word for a decade or more and can be found in the menus of Word XP and Word 2003, but we’ll focus on the ribbon interface from Word 2007 and above, which was, after all, invented to help users find the software’s more esoteric features.
These features aren’t really “secret”, but many users never find them – and they could save you considerable time and effort.īelow we outline our top 20 easily overlooked features in Word. But tucked away within the interface, there’s a wealth of additional tools waiting to be discovered. When it comes to bashing out everyday documents, there’s rarely much need to venture beyond Word’s Home tab.
