Use section breaks to change the layout or formatting in …

You can use section breaks to change the layout or formatting of pages in your document. To change formatting in a document, insert a section break at the beginning of where you want the change. Set up the formatting change just past the new section break. If you want to change formatting again, put in another section break.

Make your Word documents accessible to people with …

This topic gives you step-by-step instructions and best practices on how to make your Word documents accessible and unlock your content to everyone, including people with disabilities. You learn, for example, how to work with the Accessibility Checker to tackle accessibility issues while you're writing your document.

Word for Windows training

Training: Watch and learn how to use Word in Windows. Explore Microsoft Word training guides, articles, and how-to videos.

Remove or turn off hyperlinks

You can remove a hyperlink from a single address, remove many links at once, turn automatic hyperlinks off, and turn off the requirement to press Ctrl to follow a hyperlink. To remove a hyperlink but keep the text, right-click the hyperlink and click Remove Hyperlink. To remove the hyperlink completely, select it and then press Delete. In Excel:

Basic tasks in Word

When you create a document in Word, you can choose to start from a blank document or let a template do much of the work for you. From then on, the basic steps in creating and sharing documents are the same. And Word's powerful editing and reviewing tools can help you work with others to make your document great.

Where are my custom templates?

Learn how to find your custom templates created with earlier versions of Office and access a custom templates location.

Word Options (Advanced)

Use advanced Word options to customize editing tasks, document display, preferences, and more. To choose your advanced Word options, select File > Options, and on the left pane, select Advanced. Set up the way you select, replace, and format words and paragraphs.

Create a form in Word that users can complete or print

In Word, you can create a form that others can fill out and save or print. To do this, you will start with baseline content in a document, potentially via a form template. Then you can add content controls for elements such as check boxes, text boxes, date pickers, and drop-down lists.

Curve text around a circle or other shape

You can use WordArt with a Transform text effect to curve or bend text around a shape. If you want the text to circle the shape, you can also do this, but it's a little bit more work. You can also insert WordArt multiple times to wrap text around shapes with straight edges. Go to Insert > WordArt, and pick the WordArt style you want.

Create a document in Word

Learn how to format text, add graphics, and more in Word documents. Create professional-looking documents with ease using our step-by-step guide. Try it now!