By turning on Word’s “Reveal Formatting Marks” feature, we can get a quick and simple assessment of our formatting. The first step to understanding our paper is to reveal what we are really doing when we type.

Unbeknownst to many of us, Word offers diagnostic tools that will help understand what is really going on.ġ.

Like any true relationship, we don’t understand because we don’t listen. Nothing is more frustrating than a phantom indentation that throws off the entire focus of the paper. The first major issue with Word is that we sometimes truly don’t understand it. Luckily, DWC is here to save your computer, your window, and your mind with these useful tips to fix those pesky formatting errors. It could happen at any time, to anyone and we’ve all been tempted to chuck our Macs or PCs straight out of the office window because of it. However, for all of the convenience and usefulness Word provides us, we’ve all had to deal with its unfathomable desire to format for us. When it comes to word processing, there is no doubt that Microsoft Word is the go-to program (although Mac users could make a pretty good argument for Pages).

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