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Abiword is a lightweight word processor for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems (BSD, Haiku, and AmigaOS). It uses significantly fewer resources than that of Libre Office while providing similar features. As a result, many Linux fans turn to it for their writing needs. Since Abiword is an alternative to …

MS Word has three different display modes; Reading Mode, Print Layout, and Web Layout. When you exit an MS Word file and open it again, it remembers the mode you were using when you closed it. This only applies to saved documents. You can’t use this same setting for a new MS …

Microsoft Word lets you apply the formatting to large snippets of text enmasse. You can copy the formatting applied to one bit of text, and apply it to entire paragraphs and sections with just a few clicks. Unfortunately, the same doesn’t hold true for tables. If you want to change …

MS Office apps have color themes. They’re most noticeable in PowerPoint when you have to select a color theme for a presentation style. They exist in Word as well but you won’t know unless you insert a table, add a shape, or a heading. The color of a heading depends …

Typing scientific, or mathematical symbols in Microsoft Word is pretty simple but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Microsoft Word has a dedicated symbols box that has almost every symbol you might ever need to use in a document. Opening the symbols box each time you need to insert a symbol …

Microsoft Word gives you a considerably large list of fonts to use in your documents. For professional and/or academic use alone, it offers quite a few reasonably good fonts including the universally accepted Arial and Times New Roman fonts. It also has a Microsoft developed font called Calibri which is …

The day I learned to generate an automatic table of contents in MS Word was a glorious one. It saved, and refined many an assignment and project I’d have to do. MS Word lets you auto-generate a table of contents, a table of figures, and a bibliography. The headings in …

Line spacing in Microsoft Word is set to 1. The 1 seems to be a very vague measure since it isn’t accompanied by any units. The default line spacing is a certain percentage of the font size. It’s dynamic i.e. the smaller the size of the font, the less space …

MS Word lets you create documents with pages that are in landscape or portrait view. You can change the orientation any time you want but it applies to every single page in a document. There is no option to change the page orientation for a single page in MS Word, …

MS Word has a neat ‘Pick up where you left off’ feature. When you close a document, Word bookmarks the exact location you were last working on within that file. It does so by identifying where the cursor was when you closed the document. When you open it again, Word …