
When you move an object such as an Image, Chart, or SmartArt illustration around in a document, Alignment Guides automatically appear to show you when the object is lined up with other elements on the page.

If you have text wrapping set to an option such as Square, the Alignment Guides also show when the object is aligned with the top of a paragraph or to a heading.This new feature makes lining up images and other objects a cinch in Word 2013. The new Alignment Guides in Word 2013 show you when an object is lined up with another object or page element. You’ll also find a range of new document format designs to choose from. Microsoft has also added a visual element to its Document Formatting tool that allows you to preview a document style before applying it to the entire document. The new Word 2013 Design tab consolidates all these tools onto one tab, so they’re easy to find. If you come up with something you’d like to use all the time, the new Set as Default option allows you to make the current combination of formatting settings the default for all new documents.Word 2007 and Word 2010 added interesting features for styling a document, but the tools were scattered throughout the user interface, and they were difficult to use. The new Design tabĭocument formats can be further extended by choosing Themes, Colors, and Fonts to use with them.

The new Design tab includes document formatting options to format the entire document.
