Microsoft Word

You may have an enclosed text box within the content in your MS Word document. By default, the text box moves with the content. If you do not want it to move with the content, you must lock the text box.

If you are sharing your document with others, you may not want them to change the content within the text box. Again, you can lock the text box.

Word allows you to lock the text box for the above cases. Thus, by locking the text box, you can:

• Prevent the text box from moving with the content.
• Protect the contents of the text box.

We will explain both methods stepwise. Let us start.

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When creating a new table in MS Word, you can specify the number of rows and columns that the table must contain. But the table that appears has internal and external lines or borders. Borders make it easy to enter data in the cells. But you may want to print or display the table without some or any border showing up.

Word has many options that allow customizing the appearance of your table. You can change the styling of the borders. One of the styles includes suppressing the display of borders.

Removing the table borders or lines in MS Word does not disturb the data or the layout of the data. You only remove the lines that identify the rows and columns.

2 ways to remove table lines in MS Word

• Using the Borders Menu
• Using the Borders and Shading Dialog Box

We will show you in steps how to remove the table lines in your MS Word document.

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When you add a table in your MS Word document, there is no caption by default. A caption adds an identity to the table, briefly describing the subject it is displaying. It also makes the document easier to read and understand.

Word allows you to add a floating caption to your table. The caption has two parts—a label and a number. Word will automatically update the numbering on all other tables you add later. You can also add the caption inside a table.

2 ways to add caption to a table in MS Word

• Add a Floating Caption
• Adding a Caption Within the Table

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Many a time, you may want to save the table in your MS Word document as an image. The reasons for this may vary. For instance, you may not want others to change the cell size in the table. When you place a table inside a Word document as an image, you are making sure the table format will stay the same. Thus, opening the document on other computers will not disturb its structure.

You may also want to protect the integrity of the data in your table. Convert the table to an image. You will ensure others cannot change the data inside it.

It is easier to share table data if it is in the form of an image. It is more convenient to send an image rather than sending a whole document when sharing. You can even send the image to a mobile device, as most mobile devices do not have Word installed in them.

You can save an MS Word table as an image by taking a screenshot of the table.

We will show you stepwise how you can do the above.

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You may need to insert tables in your MS Word document to present data. Your table may contain text or numbers in different cells. But, for each cell, Word defaults to left alignment in the horizontal direction. The default vertical alignment is to the top of the cell.

If you do not like the default alignments, Word allows you to change them. For instance, you may have a lot of text in some cells and few in others. Center aligning all the text in the table makes it easier to read.

For horizontal alignment, you may consider one of the three choices that Word offers:

• Left (default)
• Center
• Right

For the vertical alignment, Word offers three more choices in relation to the cell:

• Top (default)
• Center
• Bottom

Additionally, you may apply the process in two ways:

• Center align only a select cell
• Center align the entire table in one go.

We will show you how you can accomplish the above in easy steps.

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Microsoft Word allows you to place a table anywhere within your document.

By default, the table aligns itself to the left margin, and the text flows from above to below the table.

You can align the table any other way you want. You could align it horizontally to the middle of the page, or align it to the right margin. It is also possible to center it vertically within the paragraph. If necessary, you can make it start from the top of the paragraph, or shift it to the bottom of the paragraph.

While moving the table around in the page as above, it is also possible to make the text wrap around the table. This makes the text appear all around the table for a better-looking document.

We explain how you can do all the above in simple stepwise instructions.

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When editing a document in Microsoft Word, you may need to make changes in the layout for some pages. You may want to restart the automatic numbering or change the number of columns. In all these cases, you must introduce breaks in your Word document.

Page breaks divide your document into separate parts. You can treat these parts as separate documents, assigning them different properties. Page breaks force a new page in the document, with the content coming after the page break starting on a new page.

Breaks in a Word document are invisible by default, like the section break or end of a line. Word hides these breaks, as these serve only to organize the content. The document does not need the breaks to be on display or for printing. But while editing a document, you may need to see them.

We will show you in easy steps how you can display the hidden page breaks.

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You can add extra information to your writing, beyond the main text, by using footnotes. These are like verbal assistants but only written. For instance, using footnotes you can add side comments to your work. You can also cite other publications at the bottom of the page that has the associated sentence.

You may want to change the font size of all footnotes in your document in one go. The problem is footnotes appear on different pages in the document. This makes selection difficult.

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You may not have numbering enabled for all the lines in your Word document. Even so, Microsoft Word tracks all lines in a document with numbers. Thus, going to a specific line in your document is a very simple task for Word.

Most of us do not think of our document as containing a certain number of lines. We tend to look at documents as chapters, sections, pages, paragraphs, sentences, etc

But Word has a special feature that takes you to a specific line.

The feature allows you to jump not only to a specific line in your document. You can also use it to move backward or forward relative to your current position in the document. To select the line, you must use the mouse or a keyboard shortcut.

Furthermore, you may also want to select a specific line without knowing its line number. You can do this by using the keyboard. Thus, we can select a line in a Word document in one of two ways:

• Using the line number
• Without using a line number

Let us see how to do the above in simple steps.

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