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Introduction 1 About This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 What''s Not Here 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4
Part I: Your Introduction to Word 5
Chapter 1: Hello, Word! 7 Start Your Word Day 7 Starting Word the traditional way 8 Starting Word the best way 8 Opening a document to start Word 9 Behold the Word Program 10 Working the Word Start screen 10 Examining Word''s main screen 11 Working the Ribbon 12 Showing and hiding the Ribbon 13 Changing the document view 14 Making text larger or smaller 15 End Your WordProcessing Day 16 Quitting Word 16 Closing a document without quitting Word 17 Setting Word aside 18
Chapter 2: The Typing
Chapter 19 Input Devices Galore 19 Using the PC keyboard 19 Understanding the mouse pointer 21 Keyboard Dos and Don''ts 21 Following the insertion pointer 22 Whacking the spacebar 22 Backing up and erasing 23 Pressing the Enter key 23 Stuff That Happens While You Type 23 Watching the status bar 24 Observing page breaks 24 Working collapsible headers 25 Dealing with spots and clutter in the text 25 Understanding colorful underlines 26
Part II: Your Basic Word 27
Chapter 3: To and Fro in a Document 29 Document Scrolling 29 Working the vertical scroll bar 29 Using the horizontal scroll bar 31 Scrolling with the mouse wheel 31 Move the Insertion Pointer 31 Commanding the insertion pointer 32 Moving in small increments 32 Moving from beginning to end 33 Go Back to Where You Once Edited 34 Go to Wherever with the Go To Command 34
Chapter 4: Text Editing 37 Remove Text You Don''t Want 37 Deleting single characters 38 Deleting a word 38 Deleting more than a word 39 Split and Join Paragraphs 41 Making two paragraphs from one 41 Making one paragraph from two 41 Soft and Hard Returns 42 Undo Mistakes with Undo Haste 43 Undoing the Undo command with Redo 44 Using the Repeat command 44
Chapter 5: Search for This, Replace It with That 45 Text Happily Found 45 Finding a tidbit o'' text 46 Scouring your document with Advanced Find 47 Finding stuff you can''t type 49 Replace Found Text 51 Replacing one thing with another 51 Replacing it all at once 53 Finding and replacing formatting 53
Chapter 6: Blocks o'' Text 55 Meet Mr Block 55 Mark a Block of Text 57 Using the keyboard to select text 57 Marking a block with the mouse 58 Using the F8 key to mark a block 59 Blocking the whole dangdoodle document 60 Deselecting a block 61 Manipulate the Block of Text 61 Copying a block 62 Moving a block 62 Setting the pasted text format 63 Copying or moving a block with the mouse 64 Viewing the Clipboard 65
Chapter 7: Spell It Write 67 Check Your Spelling 67 Fixing a misspelled word 68 Dealing with incorrectly flagged words 69 AutoCorrect in Action 70 Undoing an AutoCorrect correction 70 Adjusting AutoCorrect settings 71 Grammar Be Good 72 AllatOnce Document Proofing 73 Spell Check and Grammar Settings 74 Undoing the Ignore All command 74 Customizing the custom dictionary 75 Disabling automatic spell check 76 Curtailing grammar checking 76
Chapter 8: Documents New, Saved, Opened, and Closed 77 Some Terms to Get Out of the Way 77 Behold! A New Document 78 Save Your Stuff! 79 Saving a document the first time 79 Dealing with documentsave errors 81 Saving or updating a document 82 Forgetting to save before you quit 83 Open a Document 84 Using the Open command 84 Opening one document inside another 86 Close a Document 87 Recover a Draft 87
Chapter 9: Publish Your Document 89 Your Document on Paper 89 Previewing before printing 90 Printing the whole document 91 Printing a specific page 92 Printing a range of pages 93 Printing on both sides of the page 94 Printing odd and even pages 94 Printing a block 95 Printing more than one copy of something 96 Choosing another printer 96 Canceling a print job 97 Electronically Publishing Your Document 97 Preparing a document for sharing 98 Sending a Word document via email 98 Making a PDF 99 Exporting your document 100
Part III: Fun with Formatting 101
Chapter 10: Character Formatting 103 TextFormatting Techniques 103 Basic Text Formats 104 Choosing a font 105 Applying character formats 106 Text Transcending Teensy to Titanic 107 Setting the text size 108 Nudging text size 108 More Colorful Text 109 Coloring the text 109 Shading the background 110 Change Text Case 111 Clear Character Formatting 112 Behold the Font Dialog Box 112
Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting 115 ParagraphFormatting Rules and Regulations 115 Formatting a paragraph 116 Locating the paragraphformatting commands 116 Justification and Alignment 118 Line up on the left! 118 Everyone center! 118 Line up on the right! 119 Line up on both sides! 119 Make Room Before, After, or Inside Paragraphs 119 Setting the line spacing 120 Making space between paragraphs 121 Paragraph Indentation Madness 122 Indenting the first line of a paragraph 122 Making a hanging indent (an outdent) 123 Indenting a whole paragraph 124 Using the ruler to adjust indents 124
Chapter 12: Tab Formatting 127 Once Upon a Tab 127 Seeing tab characters 128 Seeing tab stops 129 Using the ruler to set tab stops 130 Using the Tabs dialog box to set tabs 130 The Standard Left Tab Stop 132 Creating a basic tabbed list 132 Creating a twotab paragraph thing 133 The Center Tab Stop 135 The Right Tab Stop 136 Making a rightstop, leftstop list 136 Building a twocolumn rightstop list 138 The Decimal Tab 139 The Bar Tab 140 Fearless Leader Tabs 141 Tab Stop, Be Gone! 142
Chapter 13: Page Formatting 143 Describe That Page 143 Setting page size 143 Changing orientation (landscape or portrait) 144 Setting the page margins 145 Using the Page Setup dialog box 146 Page Numbering 148 Adding an automatic page number 148 Starting with a different page number 149 Numbering with Roman numerals 150 Removing page numbers 151 New Pages from Nowhere 151 Starting text on a new page 152 Inserting a blank page 152 Page Background Froufrou 153 Coloring pages 153 Printing colored pages 154 Adding a watermark 154
Chapter 14: More Page Formatting 157 Slice Your Document into Sections 157 Understanding sections 158 Creating a section 159 Using sections 160 Deleting a section break 160 That First Page 161 Adding a cover page 162 Inserting a cover page manually 162 Headers and Footers 163 Using a preset header or footer 164 Creating a custom header or footer 164 Working with multiple headers and footers 167 Removing a header or a footer 169
Chapter 15: Style Formatting 171 The Big Style Overview 171 Finding the styles 172 Using a style 173 Discovering the current style 174 Removing style formatting 175 Make Your Own Styles 176 Creating a style 176 Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box 177 Modifying a style 178 Assigning a shortcut key to your style 179 Deleting a style 180 Style Tips and Tricks 181 Updating the Normal style 181 Creating heading styles 182 Customizing the Style Gallery 182
Chapter 16: Template and Themes Formatting 183 Instant Documents with Templates 183 Starting a new document by using a template 184 Changing a document''s associated template 186 Templates of Your Own 187 Creating a template based on a document you already have 187 Making a new template from scratch 188 Modifying a template 188 The Theme of Things 189 Applying a document theme 190 Modifying or creating a theme 190
Chapter 17: Sundry Formatting 191 Weird and Fun Text Effects 191 Steal This Format! 193 Automatic Formatting 194 Enjoying automagical text 194 Formatting tricks for paragraphs 196 Undoing an AutoFormat 198 Center a Page, Top to Bottom 198
Part IV: Spruce Up a Dull Document 201
Chapter 18: Borders and Lines 203 The Basics of Borders 203 Putting borders around a paragraph 205 Drawing a thick line between paragraphs 206 Boxing multiple paragraphs 206 Removing borders 207 The Borders and Shading Dialog Box 207 Creating a fancy title 208 Boxing text 209 Applying a page border 209
Chapter 19: Able Tables 211 Put a Table