In this advanced Microsoft Word tutorial, I'm going to show you some of the most important and powerful formatting options in Microsoft Word. A few weeks ago, I posted my beginner's guide to Microsoft Word, and ever since I did that, people have been asking for more Microsoft Word tutorials. So, I've decided to release a series of intermediate word tutorials and also advanced Microsoft Word tutorials. This is an example of an advanced Microsoft Word tutorial, but please watch for my other Microsoft Word tutorials as well. The topic of this particular video is the formatting options in Word. You can see here that I have a sample essay that I would like to format a little bit better, a little bit differently. The first thing that you need to know about formatting documents in Word is the importance of this little button here. This is the show/hide paragraph marks button, and you can find it on the Home tab and ribbon, in the paragraph group. You click on it, and what it does is, if it's selected, it shows you the underlying formatting that is happening in Microsoft Word. These symbols that have appeared are not visible in my document, but they are the underlying formatting that's happening. Each time I see this particular symbol, that means it's a new paragraph. When this document was created, I hit return, and every time I hit return, it put in one of those paragraph symbols. Most people use Word with this turned off, and that's fine, you can do that. But I do think it is helpful from time to time to see what is actually happening in your Word document with regards to formatting. Now that that's turned on, let's look at some of the ways that I can format this...