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Index
Title
Contents
Introduction
What’s New in Word 2007?
About This Book
How to Use This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
What’s Not Here
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I : Hello, Word!
Chapter 1: Word Hokey-Pokey
How Do I Start Word? Let Me Count the Ways. . . .
Behold Word!
Cajoling Word to Help You
When You’re All Done
Chapter 2: Making Friends with the Keyboard
Behold the PC Keyboard!
Typing (Or, the Old Hunt-and-Peck)
Things to Notice Whilst You Type
Chapter 3: A Quick Guide to Word (For the Impatient)
The Overview
Starting Out with a New Document
Typing the Text
Formatting a Document
Save Your Stuff!
Finishing a Document
Wrapping Things Up
Part II : Word Processing Basics
Chapter 4: Moving Around a Document Hither, Thither, and Yon
Scrolling a Document
Moving the Insertion Pointer
Using Browse Buttons to Navigate
Getting Lost and Going Back
Go to Wherever with the Go To Command
Chapter 5: Editing Text
Deleting Stuff
Splitting and Joining
Mistakes? Mistakes? Undo Them with Haste
Chapter 6: Find and Replace
Text Happily Found
Replacing What’s Been Found
Chapter 7: Text Blocks, Stumbling Blocks, Writer’s Blocks
What Is a Block of Text?
Marking a Chunk of Text As a Block
Deselecting a Block
You’ve Marked the Block — Now What?
The Miracle of Collect-and-Paste
Chapter 8: Proofing Your Document (Spelling and Grammar)
Hun Dewing Yore Mist Aches
Check Your Spelling
Instant Text-Fixin’ with AutoCorrect
Grammar Be Good
Proofing Your Entire Document at Once
Customizing Proofing Options
Improving Your Word Power
Making Every Word Count
Chapter 9: Documents and Files
All About Files
Making a New Document
Saving a Document
Opening a Document
Chapter 10: The Printer, the Paper, the Document Maker
Preparing the Printer
Preview Before You Print
Printing a Whole Document
Printing Part of a Document
Printing More than One Copy of Something
Canceling a Print Job (Omigosh!)
Part III : Formatting
Chapter 11: Formatting Text
How to Format Text
Basic Text Formatting
Text Transcending Teeny to Titanic
More Colorful Text Makes Not for More Colorful Writing
Undoing All This Text-Formatting Nonsense
Fun and Formatting in the Font Dialog Box
Changing the CASE of Text
Chapter 12: Formatting Paragraphs
How to Format a Paragraph
Where the Paragraph Formatting Commands Lurk
Paragraph Justification and Alignment
Making Room Before, After, or Inside Your Paragraphs
Paragraph Indentation
Who Died and Made This Thing Ruler?
Chapter 13: Setting Tabs
The Story of Tab
The Tab Stops Here
The Standard Left Tab Stop
The Center Tab Stop
The Right Tab Stop
The Decimal Tab
The Bar Tab
The Tabs Dialog Box
Unsetting a Tab Stop
Chapter 14: Formatting Pages
Describe That Sheet o’ Paper
Page Numbering
New Pages from Nowhere
Page Froufrou
Chapter 15: Formatting Documents
The Oft Misunderstood Yet Useful Concept of Sections
Adding a Cover Page (Sneaky and Quick)
Hats and Shoes for Your Pages (Headers and Footers)
Chapter 16: The Styles of Word
The Big Style Overview
Effortless Formatting Fun with Quick Styles
Do-It-Yourself Styles
Managing All Your Various Styles
Chapter 17: Themes and Templates
Formatting Fast and Fancy with a Theme
Whipping Out Similar Documents Based on a Template
Chapter 18: Misc. Formatting Stuff
Automatic Formatting
Become an Expert in Your Fields
Center a Page, Top to Bottom
Steal This Format!
Part IV : Making Your Document All Fancy-Schmancy
Chapter 19: Borders, Boxes, and Background Color
This Border Situation
Lines and Boxes Around Your Text
Background Colors
Chapter 20: Turning the Tables
Furnish Forth the Tables
It’s Your Turn to Set the Table
Table Craftsmanship
Chapter 21: Carousing with Columns
All About Columns
Here Come the Columns!
The End of the Column
Chapter 22: I Love Lists
Basic Bullets and Numbers
Lists of Things in Your Document
Footnotes and Endnotes
Chapter 23: Going Graphical
Here Come the Graphics!
Images and Text Can Mix
Image Editing
Chapter 24: Stick This in Your Document
Characters Fun and Funky
Say It in WordArt
Spice Up Your Document with a Text Box
Instant Graphical Goodness with SmartArt
Part V : What Else Is Left?
Chapter 25: Multiple Documents, Multiple Windows, Multiple Formats, Multiple Madness
Multiple Document Mania
Working with Non-Word Document Formats
Chapter 26: Other Ways of Viewing a Document
Organize Your Thoughts
Sit Back and Read
Chapter 27: Working This Out Together
Here Are My Thoughts
Whip Out the Yellow Highlighter
Look What They’ve Done to My Text, Ma
Chapter 28: Merrily We Mail Merge
All About Mail Merge
Mail Merge Ho!
Chapter 29: Labels of Love
The Label Thing
Here’s a Sheet of Identical Labels
Print That Address List
A Label Trick with Graphics
Chapter 30: Customizing Word
All the Better to See You, My Dear
The Status Bar Configuration Menu
The Quick Access Toolbar
Part VI : The Part of Tens
Chapter 31: The 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 Click OK Too Quickly
Thou Shalt Not Forget Thy Undo Command
Honor Thy Printer
Thou Shalt Have Multiple Document Windows Before Thee
Chapter 32: Ten Cool Tricks
Automatic Save with AutoRecover
Keyboard Power!
Build Your Own Fractions
Electronic Bookmarks
Document Inspection
The Drop Cap
The Document Map
Add an Envelope to Your letter
Sort Your Text
Text That Doesn’t Print
Chapter 33: Ten Odd Things
Equations
Math
Document Defense Options
Hyphenation
Document Properties
The Developer Tab
Cross-References
Smart Tags
Click-and-Type
Word and the Internet
Chapter 34: Ten Avuncular Suggestions
Keep Printer Paper, Toner, and Supplies Handy
Get Some References
Keep Your Computer Files Organized
Know a Little Windows
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
: Further Reading
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