Microsoft Word: Home Sweet Home

Here are two of my top things you can do on Word using the Home tab.  I am writing this for those who already have basic knowledge of Word.

Format Painter

If you’ve never used format painter, you will be so happy to finally know what that big paintbrush icon can do. 

This is useful when you have two different fonts, font sizes, colors, or styles in one document.  Instead of going through and fixing each, you can use Format Painter to copy that style and use it on other text.

1. Highlight the type of text you want to copy. 
2. Click on the Format Painter icon (a paintbrush) on the Home tab.
3. Click the text you want to change.
4. Note: if you have multiple places you want to change, double click on the icon.  Then you can change formats as many times as you like.  When you are done, click the icon once to end the Format Painter session.

 Change Case

Ever so busy typing, you didn’t notice you had the Caps Lock on?  Don’t retype everything!  Instead:

1. Highlight the text. 
2. On the Home tab, find the icon that has a cap and lowercase A.  Click on it and choose from the drop-down menu sentence case (although one of the other choices may be more useful, such as capitalize each word).   [Or can do SHIFT+F3 and it will do the opposite of what the text is in.]
3. This button also works if you now want the whole word in caps.