Document parts and themes, such as content controls and pre-formatted collections of color scheme, font scheme, and graphic effect pre-sets are only available in the Word desktop app. Advanced document elements, such as AutoText, cover pages, bibliography, table of contents, index, equations, and watermarks, are only available in the Word desktop app. You can choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own. Microsoft Word offers a gallery of convenient predesigned cover pages. To learn about content controls, see Content controls. Content controlsД¬ontent controls are individual controls that you can add and customize for use in templates, forms, and documents. As expected, tracked changes appear in Word for the web while in View mode. Advanced collaboration features, such as turning on Track Changes and merge, compare, and combine documents, are only available in the Word desktop app. Learn more about copy and paste in Office for the web. ClipboardД«ecause of the limitations of web browser technology, copying and pasting text in Office for the web differs from copying and pasting text in the Office desktop applications. Learn more about creating a bibliography in Word 2013. If you have the Word desktop app installed on your computer, then you can use Word to add a bibliography and citations to your document. You can view existing citations in Word for the web, but you can't add citations. Learn more about adding captions in Word 2013. If you have the Word desktop app installed on your computer, then you can use Word to add captions to a document. Learn more about differences between using a document in the browser and in Word. Click the Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons to change the list level for existing bulleted and numbered lists in the document, as well as those created in the Word desktop app. With Word for the web, you can apply a choice of three bullet styles or five numbering styles. To learn more, see Add a content type to a list or library. However, customers can configure a document library to launch a custom template when a user creates a new document. Advanced design features, such as starting documents from a large selection of professionally designed templates hosted on, are only available in the Word desktop app. Browse and start from professionally designed templates To learn more, see Automatically insert text. You create AutoText entries by adding selected text to the AutoText gallery. This is useful, for example, when you need to repeatedly enter the same large block of text and the text contains a lot of formatting. You can insert blocks of preformatted text using AutoText from your AutoText gallery. Word for the web automatically saves your document when you make changes. You can get an add-in for Word from the Office Store. The paragraph and character styles that are saved in a document are available to be applied to text in Word for the web. Rulers and gridlines are not available in Word for the web. Word for the web (formerly Word Web App) extends your Microsoft Word experience to the web browser, where you can work with documents directly on the website where the document is stored.

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