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How To Remove Anchor In Word

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If you are going to insert images along with text in a Word document, the anchor helps, just as its name suggests, in positioning them in different ways.

For instance, you may want the image to remain anchored in the document text in a certain paragraph while allowing the text to wrap around the image.

The wrapping can have several options, such as arranging the text to appear above or below the image, over the image, or behind it. In short, an anchor in a Word document ensures that the text wraps around the image just as you intend it to.

However, you may want the image to move freely with the text in the document, that is,  allow it to be in line with the text.

Word does not use an anchor when the image is in-line with the text, as it treats the image as a character within a sentence in the document.

Although the anchor is a useful tool allowing you greater creative freedom when you are adding images to your document, there are times when you do not want it.

2 ways to remove anchor in Word

  • Stop object anchors from showing
  • Remove the anchor icon

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How to remove Page Break in Word

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Word uses page breaks to separate one page from the next. This may be necessary to position a table or an image completely on a page, without partly spilling over to the next page.

Printers use page breaks to know when to start with fresh paper. Useful as they are, page breaks can mess up a Word document, if their location has changed due to say, multiple edits—necessitating their removal.

Most users face trouble when removing page breaks.

They may be following the correct sequence for removing the breaks, but somehow, it does not work.

Stubborn page breaks are mainly due to enabling of track changes.

2 ways to remove Page breaks in MS Word

  • Remove page breaks individually
  • Remove page breaks through Find and Replace

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How to change the thickness of a horizontal line in Google Docs

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Google Docs gives you several options for inserting a horizontal line in your document. Whether you want to visually divide the different sections of your document or just improve the look of your text, inserting horizontal lines is useful for a variety of reasons.

Although Google Docs has a default format for horizontal lines, you have the option to change it. You can change different aspects of your horizontal line, including its fill, border colour, length and thickness. 

In this article,  we will be focusing on how to change the thickness of a horizontal line in your Google Docs document.

Along the way, you can also learn how to insert a horizontal line in your document, for those who didn’t already know that. Specifically, we will be covering the following two methods that you can use to change the thickness of a horizontal line:

  • Through shapes
  • Through paragraph borders

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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How to wrap Text in Google Docs

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Text wrapping is a feature in Google Docs that allows you to properly position images and other objects (such as shapes) in your document. 

Using this feature will not only make your document look cleaner, but it will also save space which is especially useful if you are printing out the document. 

In this article, we will be talking about the text wrapping feature in Google Docs- what it is, why it is useful and how to use the feature in your document.

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How to remove section breaks in Word Documents

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Word allows you to separate your styles in a document with section breaks. However, after many viewers have edited a document, the section breaks may no longer exhibit proper formatting. You may have to delete section breaks to fix the problem.

2 ways to remove/delete section breaks in a word document

  • Delete section breaks individually
  • Delete all section breaks using Find and Replace

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How to create one-inch margin in Google Docs

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The margin is the distance between the text in your document and the edge of the document.

Changing the margins allows you to adjust how much of the space in your document you want the text to use. 

Every document in Google Docs has a default setting for the margins. However, you can change these default settings and customize your margins. You can change the margins for the left, right, top, or bottom of your document. 

You can also decide whether you want to change the margins for the entire page or just for a few paragraphs in your document. If you want to use these margins for future documents as well, you can make the new settings default.

In this article, we will be talking about the two broad ways in which you can change the margins in your document. We will also be taking you through the steps of changing the margins for each of these methods.

Note that we will specifically be talking about how to create a 1-inch margin but the steps we provide can be used for creating margins of any length/width.

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How to Delete Comments in Word

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After an extensive proof-reading or editing, a Word document may contain multiple track changes and/or comments in the markup area.

Even after accepting the changes and resolving the comments, some of them may linger on in the document, popping up occasionally.

As comments are also involved with tracked changes, it is necessary to either accept or reject the changes, and stop the tracking, before deleting the comments.

Word allows you to do this individually or collectively. 

While dealing with tracked changes individually, you can also resolve the associated comment, before moving on to the next change and its comment.

However, you can also attend to all tracked changes first and then collectively remove the comments.

Therefore, we will show you how to:

  • Accept changes individually or collectively
  • Reject changes individually or collectively
  • Delete comments individually
  • Delete comments collectively

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How to Delete All Tab Stops in Word

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Tab stops in Word are horizontal markers for keeping your text aligned.

When you press the tab key on your keyboard, it moves the cursor to a tab stop. Tabs can be helpful when used creatively and carefully. Otherwise, tabs can mess up a document quite badly.

Word offers tab stops to help format paragraphs.

That means you can use tab stops independently in paragraphs in a document.

When you want to change the formatting of a document, you can choose to delete tab stops individually, or all at a time. We will show you both ways.

For instance, you may have inherited a document with tab stops sprinkled all over, and want to remove them to format the document to your liking.

Here, we will show you how you to:

  • Remove tab stops individually from the horizontal ruler
  • Remove tab stops individually or collectively using menus

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How to Show and Hide Ruler in MS Word

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Word offers rulers for easily positioning text, tables, graphics, and other elements in a document.

If you are using a small screen, hiding the rulers helps to gain some extra screen space. Word allows hiding and showing rulers very easily, just as and when it is necessary.

Word has two rulers, and you may use either the horizontal ruler alone, or the horizontal ruler in conjunction with the vertical ruler:

  • Horizontal Ruler—available for Print Layout and Web Layout.
  • Vertical Ruler—available for Print Layout only.

Normally, Word does not display any of the rulers by default. You can enable the vertical ruler from the options menu, and control their visibility from the ribbon.

We will show you how to:

  • Show and hide the horizontal ruler
  • Enable the vertical ruler and show both rulers
  • Show and hide both rulers simultaneously

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