How to Add a Footnote to Microsoft Word. Footnotes allow you to cite sources or explain a concept in detail without sidetracking the main text. Word makes managing footnotes easy, as new footnotes are numbered automatically, and the...
When you launch an Office program, a start screen displays showing available templates and a list of documents recently opened in the left column. This screen can be helpful, but if you find it annoying or distracting, you can easily disable it.
When laying out your document in Word, it's sometimes helpful to view multiple pages on the screen at one time, especially if you have a large monitor. Seeing multiple pages at a time allows you to get a sense of how your overall layout looks. NOTE: We used Word 2013 to illustrate this feature.
Inserting the date and time that automatically updates into a document can be useful. There are many formats for the date and time from which you can choose on the "Date and Time" dialog box, and you can control which formats for each are available.