Merge Formatting (M) This option discards most formatting that was applied directly to the copied text, but it retains formatting that is considered emphasis, such as bold and italic, when it is applied to only a portion of the selection.The text takes on the style characteristics of the paragraph where it is pasted. The text also takes on any direct formatting or character style properties of ...

Whether it’s a new job title (congratulations!) or a phone number change, make sure you keep your email message signature up-to-date. If you're using new Outlook, for more information about email signatures, or if you haven’t created one yet, see Add a signature to messages.. Select File > Options > Mail > Signatures.

Important: If you turn on two-step verification, you will always need two forms of identification.This means that if you forget your password, you need two contact methods. Or if you lose your contact method, your password alone won't get you back into your account—and it can take you 30 days to regain access.

Note: If you don't have the Surface app installed, you can download the Surface app from the Microsoft Store. When it has downloaded, select Start , search for Surface, then select the app from the list of results.

In the search box on the taskbar, type device manager, then select Device Manager from the menu.

You can use PowerPoint on your smartphone as a remote control to run your presentation and view your speaker notes. See Using a laser pointer on your smartphone when presenting in PowerPoint for more information, including a brief video.. Swap the Presenter view and Slide view monitors

Find out how to free up space on your device by deleting unnecessary files, uninstalling apps, and moving files to other drives.

Word for the web doesn't support changing case. Use the desktop application to open the document and change text case there, or else you can manually change the casing of text in Word for the web. Select the text you want to change. Go to Home > More Font Options > Change case.

Note: If you use a Manual Table of Contents style, Word won't use your headings to create a table of contents and won't be able to update it automatically. Instead, Word will use placeholder text to create the look of a table of contents so you can manually type each entry into the table of contents.

Note: Microsoft is updating the way we ask for permission to use your voice data to improve Microsoft products that use our speech recognition technology.This may impact the data you see on your privacy dashboard. To learn more about these changes, see How does Microsoft protect my privacy while improving its speech recognition technology?