If you’ve ever spent too many frustrating hours trying to format a Word document with multiple tables and figures (why does my figure keep moving halfway off the page?!), then you will likely agree that it’s not always the best to work with.
Some tasks call for a bit more than a basic word processor, though. If so, check out our previous post by Hanna on quick tricks for formatting in Word. There are a lot of great features to MS Word if you want to (or have to) stick with it for your writing. It’s easy, convenient, familiar, and gets the job done for simple text documents. Chances are, it’s where you do a lot of your writing as well. You can follow her on Twitter writing this post in Microsoft Word. Lesley McCollum is PhD student in neuroscience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
