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Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2010].
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xviii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Table of Contents
Introduction -- About this book -- How to use this book -- Foolish assumptions -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: Your introduction to Word -- Part 2: Your basic Word -- Part 3: Formatting -- Part 4: Spruce up a dull document -- Part 5: Even more Word -- Part 6: Part of tens -- What's not here -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Your Introduction to Word -- Chapter 1: Hello, Word! -- Getting Word started -- Good, yet unimaginative, way to start Word -- Better way to start Word -- Best way to start Word -- Start Word by opening a document -- Looking at Word -- Around the Word window -- Blank place where you write -- Mouse pointer in Word -- Ending your Word processing day -- Quit Word -- Quit what you're doing without quitting Word -- Set Word aside -- Chapter 2: Typing Chapter -- Behold the PC keyboard! -- Old-hunt-and-peck -- Follow the blinking cursor -- When to whack the spacebar -- Backup and erase keys -- When to press that enter key -- Stuff that happens while you type -- Left end of the status bar -- Between the pages -- Spots and clutter in your text -- Strange underlines and colored text -- Part 2: Your Basic Word -- Chapter 3: To And Fro In A Document -- Scroll through a document -- Using the vertical scroll bar -- Using the horizontal scroll bar -- Scrolling your document with the mouse -- Move the insertion pointer -- Commanding the insertion pointer with the mouse -- Moving in small increments (basic arrow keys) -- Moving from beginning to end -- Browse buttons -- Get back to where you once edited -- Go to wherever with the go to command -- Chapter 4: Text Editing -- Remove text you don't want -- Deleting single characters -- Deleting a word -- Deleting more than a word -- Split and join paragraphs -- Making two paragraphs from one -- Making one paragraph from two -- Soft and hard returns -- Undo mistakes with undo haste -- Redo, the Undo-Undo command -- Redo, the repeat typing command -- Chapter 5: Search For This, Replace It With That -- Test happily found -- Using the Find command -- Using the traditional Find command -- Finding more than text -- finding stuff you can't type in -- Finding formatting -- Replace found text and stuff -- Replacing it all at once -- Finding and replacing formatting -- Chapter 6: Blocks O' Text -- Understanding blocks -- Selecting blocks of text -- Using the keyboard to select text -- Marking a block with the mouse -- Using the F8 to mark a block -- Blocking the whole dang-doodle document -- Deselecting a block -- Manipulating blocks of text -- Copying a block -- Moving a block -- Setting the pasted text format -- Copying or moving a block with the mouse -- Collecting and pasting -- Looking at the clipboard pane -- Pasting from the clipboard pane -- Cleansing the clipboard pane -- Chapter 7: Spell It Write -- Hue right grate -- Check your spelling -- Dealing with on-the-fly spell checking -- Dealing with words incorrectly flagged as being misspelled -- Undoing the ignore all command -- Removing words from the custom dictionary -- AutoCorrect your common typos -- Understanding AutoCorrect -- Creating your own AutoCorrect entries -- Undoing an AutoCorrect correction -- Grammar be good -- All-at-once document proofing -- Control Word's proofing options -- Changing spell-check and grammar settings -- Perusing AutoCorrect options -- Chapter 8: Documents And Such -- What is a file? -- New document -- Save your stuff! -- Saving a document the first time -- Dealing with document-save errors -- Saving or updating a document -- Forgetting to save before you quit -- Open a document -- Using the open command -- Opening a document icon -- Accessing recently opened files -- Opening more than one document at a time -- Opening one document inside another -- Close a document -- Recover a draft -- Chapter 9: Publish Your Document --Your document on paper -- Preparing the printer -- Previewing a document -- Printing the whole document -- Printing a specific page -- Printing a range of pages -- Printing a block -- Printing more than one copy of something -- Choosing another printer -- Canceling a print job -- Electronic publishing -- Preparing a document for sharing -- Sending a Word document by e-mail -- Saving a Word document in a sharable format -- Saving a Word document as a PDF -- Part 3: Formatting -- Chapter 10: Character Formatting -- How to format characters -- Basic character formatting -- Changing the font -- Applying character formats -- Using less-common character attributes -- Text transcending teeny to titanic -- Understanding points -- Setting the text size -- Nudging text size -- More colorful characters -- Text formatting with the font dialog box -- Changing text case -- Removing character formatting -- Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting -- How to format a paragraph -- Where the paragraph formatting commands lurk -- Paragraph justification and alignment -- Line up on the left! -- Everyone center! -- Line up on the right! -- Line up on both sides! -- Make room before, after, or inside paragraphs -- Setting the line spacing -- Setting specific line spacing options -- Making space between paragraphs -- Paragraph indentation -- Indenting the first line of a paragraph -- Making a hanging indent (an outdent) -- Indenting a whole paragraph -- Who died and made this thing ruler? -- Chapter 12: Tab Formatting -- Once upon a tab -- Standard left tab stop -- Creating a two-tab paragraph thing -- Center tab stop -- Right tab stop -- Making a right-stop, left-stop list -- Building a two-column right stop list -- Decimal tab -- Bar tab -- Tabs dialog box -- Setting a tab in the tabs dialog box -- Setting leader tabs -- Tab stop, be gone! -- Chapter 13: Page Formatting -- Describe that page -- Setting page size -- Setting orientation (landscape or portrait) -- Configuring the page margins -- Using the Page Setup dialog box -- Page numbering -- Adding an automatic page number -- Starting off with a different page number -- Numbering with roman numerals -- Removing page numbers -- New pages from nowhere -- Starting on a new page -- Inserting a whole, blank page -- Page froufrou -- Coloring pages -- Adding a watermark -- Chapter 14: Document Formatting -- Oft misunderstood yet useful concept of sections -- Understanding sections -- Creating a section -- Using a section -- Deleting a section break -- Add a cover page (sneaky and quick) -- Headers and footers -- Adding a header or footer -- Editing a header or footer -- Making odd and even headers or footers -- Removing the header and footer from the first page -- Working with headers and footers in document sections -- Removing a header or footer -- Chapter 15: Word Formatting Styles -- Big style overview -- Understanding style types -- Finding the styles in Word -- Using a style -- Understanding heading styles -- Determining which style you're using -- Switching to another style set -- Unapplying a style -- Make your own styles -- Creating a style based on text you've already formatted -- -- Creating a style from scratch -- Modifying a style -- Giving your style a shortcut key -- Customizing the quick style gallery -- Deleting a style -- Chapter 16: Fun With Themes And Template Formatting -- Theme of things -- Applying a document theme -- Modifying or creating a theme -- Create instant documents by using templates -- Starting a new document by using a template -- Creating a template based on a document you already have -- Making a new template from scratch -- Modifying a template -- Attaching a template to a document -- Borrowing an existing document as a template --
Chapter 17: Sundry Formatting
Weird and fun text attributes
Automatic formatting
Enjoying automagical text
Paragraph formatting tricks
Undoing an AutoFormat
Disabling the @#$%&! AutoFormat
Center a page, top to bottom
Steal this format!
Part 4: Spruce Up A Dull Document
Chapter 18: Lines And Colors
Basics of lines and colors
Using the border command button
Summoning the borders and shading dialog box
Using the shading command button
Lines, borders, and boxes
Putting a line above a heading
Boxing text or paragraphs
Boxing a title
Making rules
Drawing a fat, thick line
Putting a border around a page of text
Removing borders
Background colors and shading
Chapter 19: Able Tables
Suddenly there's a table in your document
Working with tables in word
Creating an instant table
Making a table "this" big
Drawing a table
Test in tables
Putting text into a table
Selecting text in a table
Converting text into a table
Turning a table back into plain text
Table formatting
Manipulating a table with the mouse
Adjusting the table
Designing a table
Deleting a table
Chapter 20: Columns Of Text
All about columns
Making more than three columns
Mixing column formats
Adjusting the columns in the columns dialog box
End of the column
Giving up and going back to one column
Ending multiple columns in the middle of a document
Using a column break
Chapter 21: Lots Of Lists
Lists with bullets and numbers
Making a bulleted list
Numbering a list
Creating a multilevel numbered list
Numbering lines on a page
Lists of document contents
Creating a table of contents
Building an index
Footnotes and endnotes
Chapter 22: Here Come The Graphics
Graphical goobers in your text
Plopping down a picture
Inserting clip art
Slapping down a shape
Saving time with SmartArt
Choosing a chart
Adding some WordArt
Taking a screenshot
Adding a caption
Deleting an image or artwork
Images in and around your text
Wrapping text around an image
Moving an image hither and thither
Image editing
Resizing an image
Cropping an image
Rotating an image
Changing an image's appearance
Arranging multiple images
Chapter 23: Even More Things To Insert In Your Document
Characters fun and funky
Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens
Typing characters such as U,C, and N
Inserting special characters and symbols
Spice up you document with a text box
Vast depth of fields
Placing a field in a document
Playing with fields
Date and time
Sticking the current date or time into a document
Typing date-and time keyboard shortcuts
Using the PrintDate field
Part 5: Even More Word
Chapter 24: Multiple Documents, Windows, And File Formats
Multiple document mania
Opening several documents at once
Switching between multiple documents
Viewing more than one document at a time
Comparing two documents side by side
Viewing the same document in multiple windows
Using the old split-screen trick
Many, many document types
Understanding document formats
Opening a non-word document
Saving a document in another file format
Converting an older Word document
Chapter 25: Word For Writers
Organize your thoughts
Entering outline view
Putting topics in the outline
Demoting a topic (creating subtopics)
Promoting a topic
Adding a text topic
Rearranging topics
Expanding and contracting topics
Printing an outline
Large document organization
Setting up for a large document
Creating a master document
Splitting a document
Improve you Word power
Finding the best word power
Finding the best word
Using the research task pane
Dan's writing tips
Writing for writers
Making every word count
Avoiding writer's block
Chapter 26: Let's Work This Out
Comments on your text
Adding a comment
Hiding comments
Reviewing comments
Printing comments (or not)
Deleting comments
Whip out the yellow highlighter
Look what they've done to my text, Ma
Comparing two versions of the same document
Tracking changes as you make them
Reviewing changes
Chapter 27: Mail Merge Mania
About mail merge
Understanding word's mail merge terminology
Reviewing the mail merge process
Main document
Creating a mail merge letter
Creating mail merge e-mail messages
Creating mail merge envelopes
Creating a mail merge directory
Recipient list
Creating a recipient list
Using an already created recipient list
Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook
Editing a recipient list
Fold in the fields
Mail merge Ho!
Previewing the merged documents
Merging to a new set of documents
Merging to the printer
Merging to e-mail
Chapter 28: Labels Of Love
Label thing
Here's a sheet of identical labels
Print that address list
Label trick with graphics
Chapter 29: More Custom Word
My, what big test you have!
Working the status bar zoom control
Using the Zoom commands
Better status bar
Word's changing interface
Finding the Quick Access toolbar
Customizing the Quick Access toolbar
Adding stuff to the ribbon
Part 6: Part Of Tens
Chapter 30: Ten Commandments Of Word
Thou shalt remember to save thy work
Thou shalt not use more than one space
Thou shalt not press enter at the end of each line
Thou shalt not neglect thy keyboard
Thou shalt not manually number thy pages
Thou shalt not use the enter key to start a new page
Thou shalt not forget thy undo command
Honor thy printer
Thou shalt have multiple document windows before thee
Neglecteth not windows
Chapter 31: Ten Cool Tricks
Automatic save with AutoRecover
Keyboard power!
Build your own fractions
Electronic bookmarks
Lock your document
Drop cap
Map you document
Add an envelope to your letter
Sort your text
Text that doesn't print
Chapter 32: Ten Bizarre Things
Equations
Math
Make a macro
Developer tab
Hyphenation
Document properties
Cross-references
Smart tags
Click-and-type
Word and the internet
Chapter 33: Ten Avuncular Suggestions
Keep printer paper, toner, and supplies handy
Get some references
Keep your computer files organized
Add the junk later
Back up your work
Use AutoCorrect
Use those keyboard shortcuts
Try new things
Let Word do the work
Don't take it all too seriously
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Published
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2010].
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Language
English
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Includes index.
Description
A guide to using Microsoft Word 2010 that covers typing, editing, finding and replacing text, checking spelling, saving and publishing documents, formatting, tables, graphics, file formats, and other related topics.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gookin, D. (2010). Word 2010 for dummies . Wiley.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gookin, Dan. 2010. Word 2010 for Dummies. Wiley.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gookin, Dan. Word 2010 for Dummies Wiley, 2010.
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