Hyperlinks provide an easy way of navigating to different sources or sections in your document. With this feature, you can redirect your readers to an outside source or a certain place within your file. This feature helps you format your document into a more organized and easy-to-navigate form.
The default background colour of your Google Docs pages is white. You can change the background colour to any colour that you want.
There are many benefits of changing the background color of your Google Docs pages. It makes your pages look more colorful, something different from the typical pages.
Changing the background colour is especially useful if you are creating artwork. Some examples include greeting cards, social media posts and logos.
There are two options for changing the background colour of your Google Docs page. One, you can change the background colour of the entire document. Alternatively, you can also change the background colour of a single page. This allows you to have different-coloured pages in your document.
Note that this article is intended for complete beginners. Hence, you can follow along even if you’ve never used Google Docs before.
With that introduction, let’s get started.
You know the default body font which comes with your MS Word Software Installation?
The answer is:
Calibri, 11pt.
Your font will always be the same every time you open a new Word document unless you change it before you start typing.
Have you ever wondered how you could change that?
Having a personalized font set up as the default body theme in MS Word is a clever way to save time. It also allows you to create a new document without having to change the font repeatedly. This is particularly true for those of us that have our own personal fonts that we like using. The same set of fonts we use in our articles make it a distinctive piece of work. However, we do not want to go through the hassle of always changing the font every time we open MS Word. Fortunately, we can change the default font easily.
Now, there are about three ways to change the default font in MS Word.
Without further ado, let’s get on with it.
Citing of sources is a must in most, if not all, reading materials. Various citation styles require hanging indents to format your list of sources.
This is a common format commonly found in bibliographies, reference lists, and cited works.
Here is how a Hanging Indent looks like:
A hanging indent is basically the opposite of what we usually see in common paragraph indentations, where the first line is indented.
When hanging indentation is used, the first line is not indented while the rest of the paragraph is.
Formatting each line of your citation with hanging indents makes it easier to be distinguished from the others.
It also allows your readers to quickly spot the citation details like the author names, publication dates, and place, pages, etc.
Now, there are about three ways to create a hanging indent in MS Word.
Having said that, let’s get started!
In this tutorial, we will share a couple of methods to set the Print Area.
Freezing rows can help you in better visualization and analysis of the spreadsheet data.
Freezing the rows will also ensure that the row sticks on the top while scrolling. So if you want to pin a row to the top, check the above 2 methods.
When reading a book, the table of contents makes it easier to navigate through the contents. You can also generate a table of contents in your Word document.
A table of contents helps especially when your document is large. It allows the reader to locate and navigate to a specific topic of interest. This also makes your document more user-friendly. At the same time, it becomes easier for you to edit the content in your document.
To add a table of contents, your document must be using the first three heading styles. These are Heading 1, heading 2, and Heading 3.
You can add the heading styles as you are writing the document. But if you have not done so, you can add them later as well. Once you have added the heading styles, you can create the table of contents.
Word allows you to:
Let us show you how to apply each of the above.
Locking your Word document has many benefits. You can make what-if comparisons to see how some changes will affect your document. As you have locked your document, there is no danger of the changes becoming permanent. You can change the document as you want, and if the result is not acceptable, you simply walk away. Your original document remains safe.
The above works at a personal level. But you may be sharing a document. If you do not want others to make any changes, you must lock it more securely. Therefore, you protect the document from editing by making it read-only.
Let us start.
There can be several reasons for wanting to protect your document. For instance, when you share a document, you may want only a selected few to view and/or edit your document.
You may have sensitive information in your document that you do not want others to know.
For all this, you may encrypt your document with a password. Until the other person has the password, they cannot open the document.
We will show you how to achieve this in simple stepwise instructions.
Let us begin.
The default font style in Google Docs is Arial, with the font size being 11.
Any time you create a new document, the text in that document will be formatted in this style. It is possible to change this default style in Google Docs.
In this article, we will be talking about how you can change the default font in Google Docs. Specifically, we will be talking about the following two methods.
We will also talk about how to reset the default styles.