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Drag and Drop Text
In Microsoft Word, you can move your text without using the cut and paste commands. Highlight the text you want to relocate and drag the mouse over the highlighted text until the cursor becomes an arrow. While holding down the left mouse button, drag the words to their new location. A small, gray vertical line will appear indicating where the first letter of the text will begin. When you're satisfied with the position, unclick the mouse button to anchor the text in its new place.
Keep in mind that you cannot drag text past the end of the document; if you want to move text to a position located beyond the last item in the document, you'll have to first create that space by hitting the Enter key.
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Spell Check
The Spell Check feature checks your document for general spelling errors, double words, words containing numbers, and irregular capitalization by comparing the words in your document with the words in the computer's dictionary.
A word, a sentence, a section of a page, an entire page or an entire document can be checked for spelling errors. When a misspelled or unrecognized word is found, Spell Check offers possible alternatives so you can replace the error. Words may be added to the supplementary dictionary before, during or after the Spell Check session. To avoid having proper names flagged as incorrect spellings during the Spell Check session, add them to the supplementary dictionary.
Spell does not find errors in word usage (e.g., using their instead of there).
Spell check is usually found in the Tools pull down menu or on the program's toolbar.
In Microsoft Word, Spell check will flag words not found with a jagged red underline. These words can be corrected immediately by pointing to the word, right clicking, then choosing the correct spelling from the menu that pops up.
If you're tired of Word "correcting" your spelling on unusual words -- like your name, which you've spelled right -- just because your computer doesn't recognize them, just right-click anything Word tries to correct, and, if it's spelled correctly, then select Add from the shortcut menu.
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