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.