
Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store (Gallery).

10 things to love and hate about Microsoft Office 2013.The changes you make may not be the same as mine, but I am willing to bet, whatever changes to defaults you do make, are also made with the desire to save you time, frustration, and headaches. None of the changes I have outlined are absolutely necessary, but for me, making these adjustments saves time, frustration, and headaches. Or if you are good with the slider you can simply move it to your desired percentage. Click the 100% in that bottom right corner to get the Zoom configuration screen ( Figure K) and change the percentage to 180. The default is 100%, but for 24 inch screens I typically bump this percentage to 180%. The Zoom slider is located in the bottom right corner of you Word window. For large monitors, I change the Zoom factor to a higher percentage. The last thing I do depends on the display screen I am working on at the time. Personally I like the Arial font and I like my paragraphs spaced evenly, so I change the default Normal Template ( Figure A) right away.Ĭredit: Images by Mark Kaelin for TechRepublic I don't like the default font and spacing in Word - I haven't liked it since 2007.

This suggestion is probably the most obvious and the most often overlooked.

A few minutes now can save you some frustration later. And, I mean before you starting using it, not after. Now, the changes I make may not make sense for you and I am not suggesting that everyone do exactly what I do, but I am suggesting that you take a few minutes to adjust the default settings in Word 2013 to make it work the way you want it to work - at least as best you can. However, every new version of Word requires some tweaking to make it work the way I want it to work and Word 2013 is no exception. Microsoft Word has been the primary tool of my trade for many years now (at one time it was WordPerfect) and for the most part I am happy with the application - well, at the very least, I am comfortable with it. This gallery is also available as a post in the Windows and Office Blog.
