My Experience with Word

I have been using Microsoft Word for nearly all of my life. I have become very familiar with it over the years, in terms of using it to write essays, but other than that I know very little. I would like to learn all of the capabilities Word offers. We talked in class the other day about how Word can be used to create images and edit pictures; I thinking learning these techniques could be very helpful in the future.
One other thing that I need to improve upon are my troubleshooting skills. Whenever something goes wrong or won't work, I usually just get frustrated at the computer instead of trying to diagnose the problem. If I can increase my general understanding of Word, I think I can get better at this too. For example, sometimes Word will automatically format the document and I can never figure out to stop it from doing so. If I knew why this happens, writing essays would be much less stessful.