When you’re putting together any document, it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on your word count. In school, you’re typically given a word limit for papers and presentations. When writing ...

Check spelling as you type, or not? Choose here. You use Word’s spelling checker every day, and probably just as often encounter some of the tool’s puzzling behavior. Do you know how to get rid of a ...

Staying under the prescribed word count can be a challenging task. For example, if you are writing a 500-word marketing pitch in Google Docs (you're probably using your sleek new Chromebook), the ...

If you're creating a form for someone to fill out, you may want to include checkboxes for someone to check indicating that they agree with or have read certain parts of the document. You might also ...

While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...

Use Word's check boxes to gather data from someone reading your document or from someone using a VBA program you've embedded in the document (VBA is short for Visual Basic for Applications, a ...

Hello. I apologize for asking a such an application-specific question in this general forum, but I am desperate. In Microsoft Word, under Windows 7, I'm finding that the "Ignore" and the "Ignore All" ...

I got an email recently from a reader whose spell-checker flagged the word “uninvolved” as an error. I’m not sure what software she was using. My Microsoft Word ...

One of the biggest disappointments for teachers is to find their students committing an act of plagiarism. Plagiarism can erode learning. As such, it remains one of the biggest concerns for teachers.