Word 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks

Improve your productivity and efficiency in Word 2016 with these useful tips on setting document defaults, advanced text formatting, and more.

Welcome

• Welcome
• Disable the start screen

1. Application and Document Defaults

• Set a default font for new documents
• Use Word Online
• Run updates
• Change the default save location

2. Adding and Formatting Text

• Use automatic text replacement
• Insert placeholder text
• Work with hyperlinks and autoformat options
• Maintain format during copy and paste
• Apply a drop cap

3. Using Tools

• Show nonprinting characters
• Select text
• View word and character count
• Customize your spell check dictionary
• Set the spell check language or disable
• Lock a document to restrict editing
• Compress pictures to decrease file size

Conclusion

• Next steps