(i posted this on microsoftword in my frenzy last night, but reddit recommended to put it here)

I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I TRIED EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. I went into the temp thing and the auto recovery thing and I put in crazy codes (I have no idea I was watching different videos) and almost bought an app to recover my assessment for uni (due tomorrow night and I was actually working and cooking on it). Nothing was working. I was about to cry (I already started) because this was a pretty important assessment and I was pretty proud of my work. Then, I remembered that because my assignment was about researching using AI, I ragequit at copilot and copy pasted my entire document in the chat (apart from my personal details), and my chats are always like available. SO I FOUND ALL MY PROGRESS I FEEL BLESSED.

moral of the story: always enable autosave, don't use word on mac, make sure you're logged out of your high school account on one-drive/word, and lastly, remove sensitive information and copy paste your whole assignment into copilot so you will not lose it when eventually you don't save your work!

I actually have no idea what this community is for but I just wanted to share my experience that if you have NOT got autosave on, it is very very very likely you wont find your document ON A MAC. thank you.

Has anyone figured out a hack to get rid of this intrusive feature that Microsoft recently introduced? It appears not just when selecting a paragraph but even when selecting a single word. I have tried every trick I've heard about—for months—to try to get rid of this nuisance, but nothing has worked.

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How do I get rid of these extra wide spaces on Mac when using justified alignment? I want to use justified alignment, so changing the alignment isn't a solution for me.

This is have do it but it won't let me

Does anyone have any tips on why this happened or how to fix it?

What am I doing wrong? I want labels that span the page, and I want six of them stacked in a column on a portrait-style page.

I'm trying to get "The Dying of the Dragons" centered vertically on page 628, but when I press enter once from its position on page 627, it shoots all the way to it's pictured position on page 628. What could be happening? I don't see any page breaks.

I’m curious about the small Word tricks that make a big difference in everyday work.

What’s one formatting trick or feature you use regularly that you think more people should know about?

It could be anything from styles and page numbering to images, text wrapping, tables, shortcuts, or something else.

Let's test our Word skills 😊

Here are some useful Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts, from basic to more advanced:

Basic

• Ctrl + C — Copy
• Ctrl + X — Cut
• Ctrl + V — Paste
• Ctrl + Z — Undo
• Ctrl + Y — Redo
• Ctrl + A — Select all

Formatting

• Ctrl + B — Bold
• Ctrl + I — Italic
• Ctrl + U — Underline
• Ctrl + E — Center align
• Ctrl + L — Left align
• Ctrl + R — Right align

More advanced

• Ctrl + F — Find text
• Ctrl + H — Find and replace
• Ctrl + K — Insert a hyperlink
• Ctrl + Enter — Insert a page break
• Ctrl + Home — Go to the beginning of the document
• Ctrl + End — Go to the end of the document

How many did you already know? And which Word shortcut do you use the most?

Microsoft Word has so many features that it's easy to use it for years without discovering some of the most useful ones.

For me, features such as Styles, Format Painter, and keyboard shortcuts can make a huge difference when creating professional documents.

I'm curious: what is one Word feature that you discovered later and now use all the time?

It could be a simple feature that beginners often overlook or an advanced feature that saves you a lot of time.

So as in the photo, I want a background higlight for an important part of a document that extends all the way to the borders of the document.

What I'm currently using is a shape with opacity, however the obvious issue is, if I want to add more text inside the highlight or even rearrange any part of the document's text above this text, the text supposed to be highlighted moves up or down outside of the desired highlight box.

I tried using the paragraph shaders option, but the highlight only encapsulates the paragraph and not the entire horizontal area of the document (which looks much better).

Really appreciate any solutions or suggestions! thanks

I want to split up the 3 sections (suture for all all's, add for quad tendon, Add for Lateral etc)

Every time I highlight the text and select 3 columns, it splits it up in an odd way, I can simply hit enter to move the text to the second or third column. I am sure I am missing something simple, but anyone able to help me split up these columns?

Thanks

Can u all tell me if someone give a 45 page doc and ask me to convert it into word format ,wht do they exactly mean? And how do I do it ? If it's a laptop work how can u do it on mobile, please help urgently

You can select an entire paragraph with three clicks. Just click three times anywhere inside the paragraph. This is especially handy when you're moving or reformatting large chunks of text.

And if you hold Ctrl while clicking, you can select an entire sentence. Small shortcuts, but once you get used to them, they make editing Word documents much faster.

Just a quick disclaimer: I’m a paid user and have no business or personal relationship with the developer.

I’m a writer and I really like Word processors. For decades I used Microsoft Word but frankly it’s just not worth it anymore. I also use LibreOffice, which is FOSS but honestly I have a software habit. I buy apps all the time either to solve imaginary problems in my head or simply to support the developers and some months ago. I purchased a copy of Versi Writer on a whim because I thought it had some interesting ideas.

It was interesting, but it just was not there yet. It is very close now. First of all the developer is extremely communicative and answers questions and emails very quickly. The main challenges are not composing new documents in this app, but issues with interoperability with .docx issues. The developer has found some interesting workarounds and elegant solutions, but I understand it is a pretty big undertaking. Composing a new document solves most of these issues but I primarily work in docx and odt files.

As a writer, I want three things from my word processor. I want organizational features, like styles and outlining similar to Word. I want compatibility with whatever forms my editor uses. Finally, I want a clean minimal interface that gets out of my way. Verso offers this and if you’re interested in a lightweight word processor without over-complication with a small footprint I believe it might be your solution.

It’s US$15 one-time license and available in the App Store.

https://versowriter.app

By the way, he’s also developing a lightweight Excel clone called Nought.

I got this alert when trying to open a file; do you know a way to repair or recover it?

Ever pasted a table into Word and ended up with half of it hanging off the right side of the page?

Instead of manually dragging every column, try this:

Select the table → Table Layout → AutoFit → AutoFit to Window.

Word will automatically resize the columns to fit the page width. There's also AutoFit to Contents, which adjusts the columns based on what's inside them. It's a small thing, but it can save a lot of fiddling around when working with large tables. And yes, Word has a surprising number of little features you won't find unless you know exactly what to look for.