Here are a few tips to help you use WordPad: To open and save files, select File , then select New to create a new document, Open to work with an existing document, or Save to save your document.

Learn how to change default apps and protocol handlers in Windows, including an example about how to configure the default browser.

Open any Office app, such as Word, and create a new document. Go to File > Account (or Office Account if you opened Outlook). Under Product Information, choose Update Options > Update Now. Note: You may need to click Enable Updates first if you don't see the Update Now option right away.

With voice typing, you can enter text on your PC by speaking. Voice typing uses online speech recognition, which is powered by Azure Speech services. To use voice typing, you'll need to be connected to the internet, have a working microphone, and have your cursor in a text box. Once you turn on voice typing, it will start listening automatically.

Speak is a built-in feature of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You can use Speak to have text read aloud in the language of your version of Office. Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words.

Find and use the language bar to switch to a different language for your keyboard layout.

How to add a signature to your Word documents. You can also use the Signature Line command in Word to insert a line to show where to sign a document.

Word and Outlook use a three-character shortcut that inserts a full-width horizontal rule in your document or message. The appearance of that rule depends on which character you use, as shown in the image below. Place the cursor where you want to insert the horizontal line. Type three of the characters shown below, and then press Enter.

Word automatically breaks paragraphs at the end of a page, so a paragraph that started on one page continues on to the next page. To keep the whole paragraph on the same page, follow these steps. Right-click the paragraph that you want to keep together. In the box that opens, select.

To find missing alt text, use the Accessibility Checker. Alt text helps people who can’t see the screen to understand what’s important in images and other visuals. Add meaningful hyperlink text and ScreenTips.