Three Ways to Make Microsoft Word Easier to Live With

30.07.2012

After installing it, you'll see a new tab next to Home: the aptly named Menu. Click it and you'll find File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, and all the rest of those long-lost drop-downs. Woot!

2. Add a Tabbed Interface

It's hard to believe that even in Office 2013, Microsoft still hasn't adopted tabs for switching between multiple open documents.

Thankfully, there's , but also Excel and PowerPoint. And it works with Office 2003 and later.

With Office Tabs you can manage multiple documents in the same window, just like in practically every other program under the sun. In fact, this surprisingly versatile add-on gives you plenty of control over how tabs are managed, what color and font style they should have, and so on.