Microsoft Word has a ton of useful features, here are 5 that you might find helpful.

The Format Painter

The Format Painter copies the format of text, images, and other objects and applies it to other areas of your document.

Select the text or object you want to copy.

Under the Home Tab of the Office Ribbon click the Format Painter icon, it looks like a paint brush.

Drag the cursor with the format painter attached over the text or object you want to change.

If you have several areas to change, double click the format painter and it will remain turned on until you click the Format Painter icon to turn it off.

Check Your Word Count

If you need to know the number of words in your document Word tracks those for you. Check the status bar at the bottom of Word, it shows the number of words in your document. Click on the number to get a detailed summary.

Add Pictures to Your Document

You can insert images you have on your computer or stock images into your document, click the Insert menu on the Office Ribbon and then select Pictures.

Choose “This Device” if the image you want to insert it on your computer or choose “Stock Images” to select from a list of Microsoft stock images.

Change Capitalizations

You can easily change capitalizations in Word, select the text you want to change and then press Shift+F3 repeatedly until the text looks the way you want it to. Each press toggles between sentence, lower, upper and toggle case. You can also make the changes by using the “Aa” pull-down menu on the Home Tab of the Office Ribbon.

Save Your Documents as PDF Files

You can easily save any document you are working on as a PDF file, click the File Menu > Save As. In the document type drop-down menu choose PDF. You can also click the File Menu > Export > Create PDF/XPS.

If you often visit the same websites each time you start Microsoft Edge, you can configure the browser to open those pages each time it starts.

Start Microsoft Edge, on separate tabs, navigate to the pages you want to open when Edge starts.

Once all the pages are open, click the Edge menu in the upper-right corner of the screen and select settings.

In the setting menu click start, home, and new tabs on the left.

Then, click open these pages under when Edge starts and then click use all open tabs.

All currently open tabs, excluding the settings tab, are automatically added under the open these pages option.

To remove a page from the list, click the three dots to the right of the URL for that page and select delete.

To add another page to the startup list, click the add a new page button. In the add a new page dialog, enter the URL you want to add and click add.

Close and then reopen Edge, when Edge restarts your chosen pages will be loaded.