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Three Features You Should Be Using in Word

If you use Microsoft Word to create your documents, then you are likely familiar with the features you use every day. But there are plenty of features that fly under the radar that could be just as useful, if not more.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
November 10, 2022

If you use Microsoft Word to create your documents, then you are likely familiar with the features you use every day. But there are plenty of features that fly under the radar that could be just as useful, if not more.

Here, we will look at just three Word features you should be using. These tools can save you time, improve the readability of your document, and even enhance your overall Microsoft Word experience.

This is for devices using Microsoft Word. Screenshots are from Windows 10

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Distraction Free Writing Using Focus

If you do a lot of writing in Word, especially for things that need your full attention, you can enjoy distraction-free writing with Focus.

First, enable the feature by selecting Focus in the Status Bar on the View tab. Refer to the below image:

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Accessing the Focus option

Next, you will see your document take over your entire screen with no Ribbon, Status Bar, or anything else to get in the way of your concentration. See the below image:

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Your Focus enabled document

Move your cursor to the top anytime to redisplay these items or to deselect Focus and return to your normal view.

Document Preview Using Document Editor

Another terrific feature in Microsoft Word is the Editor. With it, you can check your document for spelling, grammar, punctuation, readability, and more, all in one spot.

First, head to the Home tab and select Editor in the Editor section of the Ribbon. See the following image:

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Accessing Editor option

Next, when the sidebar opens, you will see your score at the top. You can then review necessary Corrections, Refinements, and see if similar documents appear on the web.

Note! For a very long document, this may take several minutes for the stats to be collected.

Refer to the below image:

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Your Editor stats

Now, select Document Stats in the Insights section to view counts of words and paragraphs, averages of characters per word and words per sentence, and readability scores for grade-level and passive sentences. See the below image:

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Your Document stats

Next, click the “X” on the top right of the Editor sidebar to close the tool when you finish.

References and Citations Using Researcher

One more feature in Word that goes a bit unnoticed is the Researcher tool. With it, you can look up almost anything on the internet and insert details for it without ever leaving your document.

First, head to the References tab and choose Researcher in the Research section of the Ribbon. See the following image:

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Accessing the Researcher option

Next, the Researcher sidebar opens on the right. Enter your search term into the box and press Enter. Refer to the below image:

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Entering your search

Now, you will see the results of your search. Select one to read more. See the below image:

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Your search results

You can copy and paste the text you see into your document, then click the plus sign on the top right of the item in the sidebar to add a citation for it. See the following image:

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Add a citation to your document

Researcher is a handy and helpful tool for essays, papers, and research documents.

These three features can help you no matter what type of document, article, or paper you create in Microsoft Word.

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Using the Ctrl+Shift+V Shortcut

Tired of pasting and getting weird fonts and formatting in Windows 10 or 11? Avoid using Notepad as an intermediary. Try Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut and you will get only the text you want.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
August 11, 2022

Tired of pasting and getting weird fonts and formatting in Windows 10 or 11? Avoid using Notepad as an intermediary. Try Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut and you will get only the text you want. Here’s why.

This is for Windows 10/11 and Mac. Screenshots are from Windows 10

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Paste Without Formatting

By default, when you normally Copy with Ctrl+C and Paste with Ctrl+V in Windows, the clipboard captures not only the text you have selected but also the styling that goes with it. That includes font style, text color, attributes such as bold and italics, and even bulleted lists.

Fortunately, there’s an easy way to avoid it. The next time you want to paste only the text without any formatting or style information, press Ctrl+Shift+V on your keyboard in Windows 10/11. (On a Mac, you can press Option+Shift+Command+V for a similar result).

Microsoft Word Fix

In Microsoft Word, Ctrl+Shift+V does not work. Instead, you will need to use a special option in the ribbon menu. To do so, switch to the Home tab and click Paste, then select the icon that looks like a clipboard with an “A” on it (Keep Text Only) which will paste without formatting. Refer to the below image:

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Selecting the Keep Text Only option

You can also change the default behavior in Word to always paste without formatting. To do so, navigate to

File > Options

In the Options menu that opens, click Advanced in the sidebar, then choose Keep Text Only in the Cut, Copy, and Paste drop-down menus. This way, you can make Ctrl+V always paste as Keep Text Only in Word. See the below image:

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Selecting the Keep Text Only option for Pasting within the same document

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How to Use Profanity Check in Word

Microsoft Word has a ‘profanity’ check to warn you about rude, offensive, or swear words in some places. In others, the same word will not get any special marking. This feature is helpful in a work environment using Microsoft. We will explain how to set up and use Microsoft Word’s Profanity check, then show its limitations and traps.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
May 26, 2022

Microsoft Word has a ‘profanity’ check to warn you about rude, offensive, or swear words in some places. In others, the same word will not get any special marking. This feature can be helpful in a work environment that is using Microsoft. We will explain how to set up and use Microsoft Word’s Profanity Check, then show its limitations and traps.

This is for Microsoft Word 365, Outlook 365, and parts of Microsoft Office 365

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Word’s Profanity Check

Modern Word has an optional profanity check that’s supposed to warn about rude, offensive, obscene, or bad words. 

First, open Word and navigate to:

File > Options > Proofing > Grammar and refinements > Settings

Refer to the below image:

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Accessing Settings

Next, scroll down to the bottom. Under Vocabulary look for the Profanity option, and checkmark it. When finished, click OK. Click OK again to exit. See the below image:

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Enabling Profanity option

How the Feature is Suppose to Work

Now, when Word ‘sees’ a profane word, it adds a blue dotted line. Click on the word to see an explanation This language may be offensive to you. See the following image:

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Showing Profanity check

Next, choose Ignore to remove the dashes. Click the Speaker icon at the right to hear the word and sentence.

That’s how it’s supposed to work but there’s more to it in the real world.

How the Feature Really Works or Not

Word’s Profanity check mostly works only for lower case words.  Anything with a Capital letter is usually ignored. For us, this is a huge drawback to the feature. Refer to the below image:

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Profanity checking

Microsoft’s Value Judgements

One person’s plain speaking is another’s profanity.

We were intrigued that ‘ass’ is not marked as an offensive word while ‘damn’ is.  Apparently, Microsoft decided to err on the side of caution, for whatever that is worth.

Use of Capital Letters

In a similar way to some of the other Grammar and refinements checks, most words starting with a Capital letter are ignored.

As you can see, that’s not consistent.  We can not explain why two words on the list above are marked as ‘profane’ regardless of capitalization but others do not.

Word’s grammar checks, etc, treat most capitalized words like proper nouns, so it ignores them.  Of course, that makes no sense if the word starts a sentence, but that’s a distinction Word does not make. Word does have some contextual spell checking but that’s not been extended to Profanity and other grammar checks.

Here are three examples of s**t to demonstrate that only the lower-case word is marked as ‘offensive’. See the below image:

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Upper and lower case Profanity check

A Judgment Call

Do not just rely on Word’s Profanity test (among others) so that there are no ‘naughty words’ in your documents or emails.

As you can see, there are limits to what Word will detect. 

  • Capitalized words are almost always ignored.
  • Words with multiple meanings are always ignored with no consideration of the context.

This post is courtesy of Office Watch.

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How to Add Drop Cap Using Online Pictures in Word

If you want even more flair with your Microsoft Word drop cap letters, why not take advantage of the Microsoft online images.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
February 3, 2022

If you want even more flair with your Microsoft Word drop cap letters, why not take advantage of the Microsoft online images. Let’s explore how this is done.

This is for devices using Microsoft Word

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First, open Word and click where you want a drop cap letter to appear and navigate to

Insert | Pictures | Online Pictures

Next, you will see the Online Pictures box. Search for the letter you want to use (e.g. type “R” into the Search for box and hit Enter). Simply select your image and click Insert. Refer to the below image:

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The letter “R” Drop Caps

The letter may appear very large or very small within your document, so resize it if necessary.

Now, right-click the image of your letter to format it. For example, Crop the image slightly, setting Wrap Text to ‘tight’ or ‘square’. See the below image:

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Selecting omg options for the Drop Cap

Next, you will see your drop cap in your Word document. See the following image:

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Your finished Drop Cap

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How to Spell Check in Word Using Keyboard Shortcuts

You may already be familiar with Microsoft Word’s built-in spelling and grammar checker, flagging incorrect spelling, and (sometimes) bad grammar. If you are reviewing a document that’s riddled with errors, you can use these keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
January 20, 2022
Updated: January 21, 2022

You may already be familiar with Microsoft Word’s built-in spelling and grammar checker, flagging incorrect spelling, and (sometimes) bad grammar. If you are reviewing a document that’s riddled with errors, you can use these keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process. Let’s explore using these shortcuts.

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What the Checker Can and Can Not Do

Word’s spelling and grammar checker is enabled by default. When a word is misspelled, Word flags it with a wavy, red underline. When there’s incorrect grammar or formatting, Word flags it with two blue underlines. Refer to the below image:

Spelling and Grammar example

In the above example, Word detected two spaces between “Raymond” and “Oglesby,” so it flagged it as a grammar issue. It also detected “specialist” was misspelled as “specialis,” so it flagged that as a spelling error.

These are the basics that Word checks for by default. However, you can make Word’s spelling and grammar checker work harder by enabling some additional features in its Settings menu. Head to:

File > Options > Proofing > Settings

For example, you can have Word check for passive voice, split infinitives, superfluous expressions, and so on. See the below image:

Grammar Settings

If you scroll down, you can check for more grammar options, such as Inclusiveness:

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More Grammar settings

You can also do things like, exclude specific words from the checker, check for inclusive language, ignore URLs, and much more.

So what can Word’s spelling and grammar checker not do? As comprehensive as it may seem, it often fails when it comes to noticing the incorrect usage of a properly spelled word. For example, “troubleshoot.” See the following image:

Grammar error

In this case, Word failed to catch the incorrect usage of “troubleshoot,” it should be “troubleshot.” That said, you can count on Word to detect a lot of issues in a document, but you can not rely on it 100%. As a matter of good practice, always re-review your document before sending it out.

Using the Keyboard Shortcut

In Word, you can use the Alt+F7 shortcut to jump straight to the first error behind where the cursor currently is in the document. So, if you want to start with the first error, you will need to place your cursor at the beginning of the document, or in front of the first error. Refer to the below image:

Spelling error

When you press Alt+F7, Word highlights the spelling or grammar error and gives you the option to either correct or ignore the issue. Press the up or down arrow keys to highlight the desired option, and then press Enter to select it.

Note! you can only highlight spelling and grammar suggestions with your arrow keys. If you want to ignore the suggestion, you must click that option with your mouse. See the below image:

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Highlight the Spelling error

Spelling errors generally have more suggested corrections to choose from. See the following image:

Correction for the Spelling error

You can also ignore the spelling error, just as you would with the grammar error. The only difference is, with spelling, you can choose to:

  • Ignore every instance of that same error
  • Ignore just the specific error (even if it also exists elsewhere in the document)

Refer to the below image:

Ignore the Spelling error

In addition, you can also add that word to the dictionary. When you do this, Word will no longer flag the word as an error. This is useful if the word happens to be a part of an in-house style guide or something similar.

Click the three dots to the right of Ignore All and then click Add to Dictionary from the drop-down menu. See the below image:

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Add to the Dictionary

When you are ready to move on to the next error, just press Alt+F7 again. Continue doing this until all of the issues within the document have been checked.

Word’s grammar and spell checker is very useful for reviewing the content within a document, but it can be quite distracting when it’s throwing back errors while you are writing. If it’s too distracting for you, you can turn it off as you type.

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How to Overlay Images in Microsoft Word

Working with images in Microsoft Word is not necessarily difficult, but there are some tricks to positioning your pictures. If you have two or more images that you want to overlap with each other, this post will show you how.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
January 13, 2022

Working with images in Microsoft Word is not necessarily difficult, but there are some tricks to positioning your pictures. If you have two or more images that you want to overlap with each other, this post will show you how.

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Adjust Image Layout

First, launch Microsoft Word and insert an image. You must be sure you are using a supported layout option. You can check this in three different ways.

  • Select the image and click the Layout Options icon that appears to the right of it.
  • Select the image, go to the Picture Format tab that appears, and click the Wrap Text drop-down arrow.
  • Right-click the image and move your cursor to Wrap Text to display the options in the pop-out menu.

Refer to the below image :

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Selecting Wrap Text option

Next, as to layout options, select Square, Tight, Through, or one of the others; whichever works best for your document. Note! In Line with Text will not work. See the below image:

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Selecting a Layout

Allow Images to Overlap

Now, you may notice when you drag an image close to another in your Word document, you cannot place it on top of another. The other picture may suddenly move out of the way to make room for the one you are dragging.

In order to overlay images in Word, you need to enable this option for each picture you want in the group.

  • Select the image, click the Layout Options icon on the right, and click See More at the bottom.
  • Select the image, go to the Picture Format tab, click Position, and pick More Layout Options.

See the following image:

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Selecting See more options

Next, when the Layout window opens, you should be on the Position tab. But if not, select it. At the bottom of the window below Options, check the box to Allow Overlap, then click OK. Refer to the below image:

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Enabling Allow overlap

Now, insert another image(s) and place it next to or below the original image. Make sure you enable the overlap option for each image that you want to overlay.

Overlay Images

Once all of the above is in place, simply drag your images and overlap them as you please.

If you want a particular picture to be on top, right-click or go to the Picture Format tab and choose to Bring Forward or Bring to Front depending on the number of images you are using and how you want them positioned. See the below image:

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Selecting Bring to Front option

You can take similar action if you want an image in the back. Right-click or go to the Picture Format tab and choose to Send Backward or Send to Back. See the following image:

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Selecting Send to Back option

Next, your final overlapped images will look similar to the below image where we are using the Bring to Front option:

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The finished overlapping images

Overlapping images in Word is not too hard, as you can see. But it’s one of those hidden tricks that can make working with pictures much easier just like placing text on top of an image. I wish I knew about this trick before now.

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How to Add a Signature to Microsoft Word

Adding your signature into a Microsoft Word document is a way to put your own stamp on it and make it look official and professional.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
October 14, 2021

Adding your signature into a Microsoft Word document is a way to put your own stamp on it and make it look official and professional. Let’s explore how this is done.

This is for devices running Word. We are using Word for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10.

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There are several ways to add your signature to a Word document. You can add a signature line for a post-print signature, or insert your own handwritten signature as a picture.

Add a Signature Line

A Signature Line provides you, or somebody else, with a location to sign a printed document. If you are planning on printing your Word document, adding a Signature Line is probably the easiest way.

First, open a Word document. In the Text section, click

Insert > Signature Line

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Selecting Signature Line option

Next, in the Signature Setup box that appears, fill out your signature details. You can include the name, title, and email address of the signer. This can be you or somebody else.

You can also provide instructions for the signer. Once you are ready, click OK to insert your Signature Line. See below image:

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Setting up Signature details

Now, once you have confirmed your signature options, a Signature Line is inserted with a cross and a line to signify where to sign. See following image:

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Your Signature Line

You can now drag-and-drop this into an appropriate position within your Word document. The document can then be signed at this position after printing.

Add a Picture Signature

If you would prefer to use your handwritten signature, you can take a picture or scan a copy of it and upload it to your computer. You can then insert a picture of your signature into the Word document.

First, place your cursor where you want to locate the signature, preferably just below the Signature Line box.

To insert the image into your document, click

Insert > Pictures > This Device

Your File Explorer will open for you to choose your signature image, then click Insert. Highlight your Signature Line box, and click the Layout Options icon. From here, choose the Layout Option, In Front of Text.

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Selecting In Front of Text for Layout Option

Next, drag-and-drop your signature picture onto the Signature Line. See below image:

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Your final result

Optionally, following the above steps, you could add a photo below or to the side of your Signature Line box.

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How to Add the Developer Tab in Office Apps

Sooner or later, you will need the Developer Tab in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Even if you know nothing about programming, there are buttons on the Developer tab that are necessary for some of the clever features in Office.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
September 28, 2021

Sooner or later, you will need the Developer Tab in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. Even if you know nothing about programming, there are buttons on the Developer tab that are necessary for some of the clever features in Office.

The Developer tab is not displayed by default, but you can add it to the ribbon in a few easy steps.

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First, open an Office app, like Word, and any document. Now, right-click within any Tab in the Ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon. Refer to below image:

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Select Customize the Ribbon option

Next, in the right-hand side, select All Tabs from the drop down menu and simply checkmark the Developer tab box. Now, select OK to enable the Developer tab. See below image:

Ribbon 2
Enable the Developer tab

Next, exit your Office app, restart the app and load your document. You will see the Developer tab in your ribbon. Just click the tab to view its options. See following image:

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Your Developer tab

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How to Freely Move Pictures in Word

Whenever you insert a graphic into a document, it is inserted “in line with text” by default. This treats the object as if it were text, moving it around the page as text is inserted. You can enable text wrapping on an object to move it around freely, forcing the text to move around to accommodate it.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
August 24, 2021

Whenever you insert a graphic into a document, it is inserted “in line with text” by default. This treats the object as if it were text, moving it around the page as text is inserted. You can enable text wrapping on an object to move it around freely, forcing the text to move around to accommodate it. Let’s explore this feature.

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Make Single Picture Moveable

First, open Microsoft Word on your Windows or Mac computer. On Word’s first screen, select Blank document to create a new document. Refer to below image:

Word 1
Open a blank Word document

Now, in Word’s editing window, click the Insert tab at the top. See below image:

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Click the Insert tab

Next, under the Illustrations section, click

Pictures > This Device

This lets you add a picture from your computer. See following image:

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Click This Device to locate a picture on your computer

Now, using your File Explorer, navigate to your picture. Double-click the picture to add it to your Word document. Refer to below image:

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Find a picture on File Explorer

Next, on Word’s editing screen, right-click the image that you just added and select

Wrap Text > In Front of Text

from the menu. See below image:

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Locate picture in Front of Text

Your picture is now freely movable. Drag and drop it anywhere you want in your document. See following image:

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The final result

Make All Pictures Moveable

If you would like to make all of your future pictures freely move in your Word documents, you can modify an option in Word’s Settings menu.

First, launch Microsoft Word on your Windows or Mac computer. Now, on Word’s main screen in the lower-left corner, click Options.

Note! If you are on Word’s document editing screen, instead, click File at the top to see Options.

Refer to below image:

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Select Options

Next, select Advanced in the sidebar on the left. See below image:

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Select Advanced

Now, scroll down the right pane to the Cut, copy, and paste section. Locate the Insert/paste picture as option and click the drop-down menu next to it. See following image:

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Locate drop down menu

Next, select In front of text option in the drop-down menu. Refer to below image:

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Select In front of text option

Now, click OK at the bottom of the Options window to save your changes and close the window. See below image:

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Save your changes and exit

From now on, Word will allow you to freely move pictures on top of text in your documents.

You might be thinking about spacing around your text. As is, with the picture being in front of your text, your text is hidden. One way to fix this is using the option Through or Top and bottom of the picture instead of choosing In front of text.

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How to Use the Microsoft Measurement Converter

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook offer a hidden measurement converter to save you from doing measurement conversions manually. If you are working with a document, presentation, or email that contains measurements, you will find this time-saving feature useful.

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August 17, 2021

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook offer a hidden measurement converter to save you from doing measurement conversions manually. If you are working with a document, presentation, or email that contains measurements, you will find this time-saving feature useful. Lets explore this feature.

This is for Office 365. Screenshots are from Windows 10 PC.

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Enable Converter in Word and PowerPoint

First, open a document in Microsoft Word or a presentation in PowerPoint. Next, click

File > Options

from the menu. Now, select Proofing on the left and click AutoCorrect Options on the right. Refer to below image:

Accessing AutoCorrect.Options

Next, select the Actions tab. Now, check the boxes for Enable Additional Actions in the right-click menu then Measurement Converter from the list. You will notice other actions you can enable. Just checkmark any additional ones you would like to use. See below image:

Enabling Measurement Converter option

Click OK, then OK once more to save and exit the options menu.

Enable Converter in Outlook

First, open Microsoft Outlook and click

File > Options

from your inbox or an email window.

Now, select Mail on the left and click Editor Options on the right. See following image:

Accessing Editor Options

On the next screen, choose Proofing on the left and AutoCorrect Options on the right. Refer to below image:

Accessing AutoCorrect Options

Next, select the Actions tab. Now, check the boxes for Enable Additional Actions in the right-click menu, and Measurement Converter in the list. Like with Word and PowerPoint you can checkmark the boxes for any other actions you would like to use. See below image:

Enabling Measurement Converter option

Next click OK on all screens to save and exit,

Use the Converter in Office

When you receive a document that includes unfamiliar measurements, such as those from a foreign country, this tool takes the work out of manual conversions. And if you are creating the document yourself, you can convert the measurement for your audience.

Just, select the text containing the measurement. You can do this by dragging your cursor through it.

Now, right-click and move your cursor down to Additional Actions in the menu. You will see the Measurement Converter in the pop-out window. Refer to below image:

Accessing Measurement Converter

This lets you view the conversion. Additionally, you can click to select a conversion from the list and it will replace the measurement in your document, presentation, or email. This is convenient when you are preparing an item for someone expecting a different unit of measurement.

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