Word for dummies / Dan Gookin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gookin, Dan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Word.

Word processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, [2022]

Summary:

Write on with Microsoft Word! If you create professional-looking documents on a regular basis, you require a mighty word processor that offers all the power and capabilities to create them. Enter Microsoft Word! Pair it with Word For Dummies to hone all your word-processing skills. The book is filled with useful tips and suggestions that allow you to get the most out of Word, as well as helpful information on the latest features. It also shows you how to customize and configure Word for your optimal workflow. Get details on the new Word interface; tools to quickly edit and format your documents; methods to organize your text with tables; techniques to insert charts, photos, and other graphics for visual interest; ways to automate routine document creation tasks; and how best to collaborate, share, and exchange documents with co-workers. Use Windows tools to quickly access Word and optimize your productivity Seamlessly integrate Word with other Office applications (Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel) Employ document formatting features to create a clean layout and text presentation Exchange comments with co-workers using @mention notifications Customize the Word interface, including the dark mode feature Have a friendly, useful guide on Microsoft Word on hand when you need it With Word For Dummies by your side, you can once again make working with Word a pleasure. Soon, you'll be creating picture-, letter- and word-perfect documents.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

How to Use This Book

Foolish Assumptions

What's Not Here

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part 1 Your Introduction to Word

Chapter 1 Hello, Word!

Start Your Word Day

Starting Word the program

Starting Word online

Opening a document to start Word

Behold the Word Program

Working the Word Start screen

Examining Word's main screen

Working the Ribbon

Showing and hiding the Ribbon

Working with Word on a tablet

Changing the document view

Making text look larger or smaller

End Your Word Day

Quitting Word

Closing a document without quitting Word

Setting Word aside

Chapter 2 The Typing Chapter

Input Devices Galore

Using the PC keyboard

Working an onscreen keyboard

Understanding the mouse pointer

Keyboard Do's and Don'ts

Following the insertion pointer

Whacking the spacebar

Backing up and erasing

Pressing the Enter key

Stuff That Happens While You Type

Using text predictions

Watching the status bar

Observing page breaks

Working collapsible headers

Dealing with spots and clutter in the text

Understanding colorful underlines

Part 2 Your Basic Word

Chapter 3 To and Fro in a Document

Document Scrolling

Working the vertical scroll bar

Using the horizontal scroll bar

Using the mouse wheel to scroll

Move the Insertion Pointer

Commanding the insertion pointer

Moving in small increments

Moving from beginning to end

Return to the Previous Edit

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

Undoing the Undo command with Redo

Using the Repeat command

Chapter 5 Search for This, Replace It with That

Text Happily Found

Finding a tidbit o' text

Scouring your document with Advanced Find

Finding stuff you can't type

Replace Found Text

Chapter 6 Blocks o' Text

Meet Mr. Block

Mark a Block of Text

Using the keyboard to select text

Marking a block with the mouse

Using the F8 key to mark a block

Blocking the whole dang-doodle document

Deselecting a block

Manipulate a Block of Text

Copying a block

Moving a block

Setting the pasted text format

Using the mouse to copy or move a block

Viewing the Clipboard

Chapter 7 Spell It Write

Check Your Spelling

Fixing a misspelled word

Dealing with incorrectly flagged words

AutoCorrect in Action

Undoing an AutoCorrect correction

Adding a new AutoCorrect entry

Adjusting AutoCorrect settings

Grammar Be Good

All-at-Once Document Proofing

Reviewing all those errors

Rechecking a document

Document Proofing Settings

Customizing the custom dictionary

Disabling automatic proofing

Curtailing grammar checking

Hiding all proofing errors in a document

Chapter 8 Documents New, Saved, and Opened

Some Terms to Get Out of the Way

Behold! A New Document

Save Your Stuff!

Saving a document for the first time

Dealing with document-save errors

Saving or updating a document

Saving automatically on OneDrive

Forgetting to save before you quit

Open a Document

Using the Open command

Opening one document inside another

Recover a Draft

Chapter 9 Publish Your Document

Your Document on Paper

Previewing before printing

Printing the entire document

Printing a specific page

Printing a range of pages.

Printing on both sides of the page

Printing odd- and even-numbered pages

Printing a block

Printing more than one copy of something

Choosing another printer

Canceling a print job

Electronically Publishing Your Document

Preparing a document for publishing

Making a PDF

Exporting your document

Part 3 Fun with Formatting

Chapter 10 Character Formatting

Text Formatting Techniques

Basic Text Formats

Selecting a font

Applying character formats

Text Transcending Teensy to Titanic

Setting the text size

Nudging text size

More Colorful Text

Coloring the text

Shading the background

Change Text Case

Clear Character Formatting

Behold the Font Dialog Box

Chapter 11 Paragraph Formatting

Paragraph Formatting Rules and Regulations

Formatting a paragraph

Locating the paragraph formatting commands

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

Making space between paragraphs

Paragraph Indentation Madness

Indenting the first line of a paragraph

Making a hanging indent (an outdent)

Indenting a whole paragraph

Using the ruler to adjust indents

Chapter 12 Tab Formatting

Once Upon a Tab

Seeing tab characters

Seeing tab stops

Using the ruler to set tab stops

Using the Tabs dialog box to set tabs

The Standard Left Tab Stop

Creating a basic tabbed list

Creating a 2-tab paragraph-thing

The Center Tab Stop

The Right Tab Stop

Making a right-stop, left-stop list

Building a 2-column right-stop list

The Decimal Tab

The Bar Tab

Fearless Leader Tabs

Tab Stop, Be Gone!

Chapter 13 Page Formatting

Describe That Page

Setting page size.

Changing orientation (landscape or portrait)

Setting the page margins

Using the Page Setup dialog box

Page Numbering

Adding an automatic page number

Starting with a different page number

Numbering with Roman numerals

Removing page numbers

New Pages from Nowhere

Starting text on a new page

Inserting a blank page

Page Background Froufrou

Coloring pages

Printing colored pages

Adding a watermark

Chapter 14 Section Formatting

Slice a Document into Sections

Creating a section

Using sections

Removing a section break

That First Page

Adding a cover page

Inserting a cover page manually

Headers and Footers

Using a preset header or footer

Creating a custom header or footer

Working with multiple headers and footers

Removing a header or a footer

Chapter 15 Style Formatting

The Big Style Overview

Finding the styles

Using a style

Discovering the current style

Removing style formatting

Make Your Own Styles

Creating a style

Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box

Modifying a style

Assigning a shortcut key to a style

Deleting a style

Style Tips and Tricks

Changing the Normal style

Creating heading styles

Customizing the Style Gallery

Chapter 16 Template and Themes Formatting

Instant Documents with Templates

Using a template to start a new document

Changing a document's attached template

Templates of Your Own

Creating a template based on a document you already have

Making a new template from scratch

Modifying a template

The Theme of Things

Applying a document theme

Modifying or creating a theme

Chapter 17 Random Drawer Formatting

Weird and Fun Text Effects

Steal This Format!

Automatic Formatting

Enjoying automagical text

Formatting tricks for paragraphs

Undoing an AutoFormat.

Center a Page, Top to Bottom

Part 4 Spruce Up a Dull Document

Chapter 18 They're Called Borders

The Basics of Borders

Putting borders around a paragraph

Boxing multiple paragraphs

Removing borders

The Borders and Shading Dialog Box

Creating a fancy title

Boxing text

Applying a page border

Stick a thick line between paragraphs

Chapter 19 Able Tables

Put a Table in Your Document

Working with tables in Word

Creating a table

Converting a table to text

Deleting a table

Text in Tables

Typing text in a table

Selecting in a table

Aligning text in a cell

Table Modification

Adding or removing rows or columns

Adjusting row and column size

Merging cells

Splitting cells

Making the table pretty

Adding a table caption

Chapter 20 Columns of Text

All about Columns

Making 2-column text

Building a trifold brochure

Giving up on columns

Column Tricks

Changing column formats

Placing 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

Document Content Lists

Creating a table of contents

Building an index

Select index entries

Place the index in the document

Adding a list of figures

Footnotes and Endnotes

Chapter 22 Here Come the Graphics

Graphical Goobers in the Text

Copying and pasting an image

Plopping down a picture

Slapping down a shape

Sticking things into a shape

Using WordArt

Image Layout

Wrapping text around an image

Floating an image

Keeping an image with text

Image Editing

Resizing an image

Cropping an image

Rotating an image

Changing an image's appearance

Image Arrangement

Moving an image hither and thither

Aligning graphics.

Shuffling images front or back.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-82919-4

1-119-82918-6

OCLC:

1289817487