The trend of making features in MIcrosoft Word require an Internet connection is frustrating, but these features still work exactly as they did in the '90s.

Image: Araki Illustrations/Adobe Stok. Updating old Microsoft Word documents is tedious work, but nonetheless, you must get the job done. If the old and new documents share the same style names ...

Styles can travel from one computer to another, and even from an old version of Word to a new one. If you save your styles to your Normal template, all you have to do is move the template file to ...

I'm using only paragraph styles in this example, but you can also create custom styles for characters, tables, and lists; you'll find more information on Word styles on Microsoft's Word training site.