Auto-Recover | A feature that periodically saves the users work. The save frequency can be increased, decreased, or disabled from the Save tab in the Backstage view. |
Building Block Organizer | A tool that stores and organizes saved Quick Parts, bibliographies, headers and footers, text boxes, and watermarks. |
Caption | A feature used to add text to pictures, tables, and drawings to explain what they are. |
Combine | A feature used to combine two or more documents into one document. |
Compare | A feature used to review two document versions to see the differences in the documents. |
Content Controls | Individual controls that can be added to documents and templates and then customized to fit the users specific needs. |
Custom Color Set | An option that allows a user to create a color set for text, save it, and apply it to other documents or templates in the future. |
Custom Font Set | An option that allows a user to set the font for body text and headings, save it, and apply it to other documents or templates in the future. |
Custom Style Set | An option that allows a user to set font and alignment for titles, headings, and body text, then save and apply it to other documents or templates in the future. |
Custom Theme | An option that allows a user to create a theme by saving color sets, font sets, and style sets to use on future projects. |
Character Styles | An option that allows users to create a style, save it, and apply it to specific characters in the future. |
Default Font | The text that is automatically selected when a new document is opened. |
Developer Tab | An available tab, hidden by default, that offers advanced options and customizations. |
Document Check Out | A feature offered that allows a user to check out a document, preventing other users from viewing the document, until the changes have been made and the document has been checked back in. |
Encrypt With Password | A method used to secure a file by allowing a user to protect the document with a password. The password must be provided before a user can view the document. |
Find and Replace | A feature that allows a user to search for words or phrases and replace them with new text. |
Hyphenation | An option that inserts a hyphen into a word to fill in excess space at the end of a line where the whole word was too long to fit in the space that was left. |
Index Entries | Key words that are marked and then used to generate an index. |
Keep Lines Together | An option that keeps all the lines of a paragraph together on the same page. |
Line Numbers | An option that numbers each line of a document in the way the user specifies. |
Linking External Content | A feature that links content from an external source to the users document. |
Macro | A list of commands that are recorded or coded to execute the commands using a single command. |
Mail Merge | A process used to create personalized letters, envelopes, and labels. |
Paragraph Styles | An option that allows a user to create a style, save it, and apply it to selected paragraphs. |
Quick Access Toolbar | A feature that stores the users specified commands on the toolbar for easy access and use. |
Quick Parts | Text that can be saved and inserted into documents. |
Restrict Editing | A tool that provides options to restrict the amount of editing that can be done to the document. |
Table of Figures | A table created using the captions from the document. |
Widow/Orphan Control | An option used to prevent a single line of a paragraph from being left at the top or bottom of a page. |
Wildcard | A character that represents any number of characters within a word and can be used to find words within a document. |