The Developer tab in Microsoft Office unlocks a bunch of cool features. Here's how to enable it.

These step-by-step instructions show you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and to use it to launch the Visual Basic Editor and access Visual Basic ...

What is the Developer tab? Both the Windows and macOS desktop versions of Word have Developer tabs built into the UI. One can think of the Developer tab as a settings and customizations dashboard.

But to access them, you first have to load a tab that, by default, is missing in the Ribbon—the Developer tab. For some reason it’s not automatically initiated when Office 2007 is installed; you have ...

It’s a lot easier to create custom forms in Word than you might think and, certainly, much easier than it was many years ago. Under the Developer tab, Microsoft provides nine Content Controls ...

Click the Close button. Copy Formatting and Styles between Word documents Open the Microsoft Word on your computer and enable the Developer tab. For that, click the File > Options > Customize Ribbon.

If you find that there's no Design tab in Microsoft Word, verify if the Design tab is enabled in Word Options under Customize Ribbon.

Otherwise, click the "Office" button, "Word Options" and "Popular," then enable the "Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon" check box and click "OK" to make the Developer tab appear on the Ribbon.