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 1: Your Introduction to Word 5 Chapter 1: Hello, Word 7 Start Your Word Day 7 Starting Word the program 8 Starting Word online 8 Opening a document to start Word 9 Behold the Word Program 10 Working the Word Start screen 10 Examining Word''s main screen 12 Working the Ribbon 13 Showing and hiding the Ribbon 14 Working with Word on a tablet 15 Changing the document view 15 Making text look larger or smaller 16 End Your Word Day 17 Quitting Word 18 Closing a document without quitting Word 18 Setting Word aside 19 Chapter 2: The Typing Chapter 21 Input Devices Galore 21 Using the PC keyboard 22 Working an onscreen keyboard 23 Understanding the mouse pointer 24 Keyboard Do''s and Don''ts 24 Following the insertion pointer 25 Whacking the spacebar 25 Backing up and erasing 26 Pressing the Enter key 26 Stuff That Happens While You Type 27 Using text predictions 27 Watching the status bar 27 Observing page breaks 28 Working collapsible headers 29 Dealing with spots and clutter in the text 29 Understanding colorful underlines 30 Part 2: Your Basic Word 33 Chapter 3: To and Fro in a Document 35 Document Scrolling 35 Working the vertical scroll bar 36 Using the horizontal scroll bar 37 Using the mouse wheel to scroll 37 Move the Insertion Pointer 38 Commanding the insertion pointer 38 Moving in small increments 39 Moving from beginning to end 39 Return to the Previous Edit 41 Go to Wherever with the Go To Command 41 Chapter 4: Text Editing 43 Remove Text You Don''t Want 43 Deleting single characters 44 Deleting a word 44 Deleting more than a word 45 Split and Join Paragraphs 47 Making two paragraphs from one 47 Making one paragraph from two 48 Soft and Hard Returns 48 Undo Mistakes with Undo Haste 49 Undoing the Undo command with Redo 50 Using the Repeat command 50 Chapter 5: Search for This, Replace It with That 51 Text Happily Found 51 Finding a tidbit o'' text 52 Scouring your document with Advanced Find 53 Finding stuff you can''t type 55 Replace Found Text 58 Chapter 6: Blocks o'' Text 61 Meet Mr Block 61 Mark a Block of Text 63 Using the keyboard to select text 63 Marking a block with the mouse 64 Using the F8 key to mark a block 65 Blocking the whole dang-doodle document 66 Deselecting a block 67 Manipulate a Block of Text 67 Copying a block 68 Moving a block 68 Setting the pasted text format 69 Using the mouse to copy or move a block 70 Viewing the Clipboard 71 Chapter 7: Spell It Write 73 Check Your Spelling 73 Fixing a misspelled word 74 Dealing with incorrectly flagged words 75 AutoCorrect in Action 77 Undoing an AutoCorrect correction 77 Adding a new AutoCorrect entry 78 Adjusting AutoCorrect settings 79 Grammar Be Good 80 All-at-Once Document Proofing 81 Reviewing all those errors 81 Rechecking a document 81 Document Proofing Settings 82 Customizing the custom dictionary 82 Disabling automatic proofing 83 Curtailing grammar checking 84 Hiding all proofing errors in a document 84 Chapter 8: Documents New, Saved, and Opened 87 Some Terms to Get Out of the Way 88 Behold! A New Document 88 Save Your Stuff! 89 Saving a document for the first time 90 Dealing with document-save errors 92 Saving or updating a document 92 Saving automatically on OneDrive 93 Forgetting to save before you quit 94 Open a Document 94 Using the Open command 95 Opening one document inside another 97 Recover a Draft 98 Chapter 9: Publish Your Document 99 Your Document on Paper 99 Previewing before printing 100 Printing the entire document 101 Printing a specific page 102 Printing a range of pages 103 Printing on both sides of the page 104 Printing odd- and even-numbered pages 105 Printing a block 106 Printing more than one copy of something 106 Choosing another printer 106 Canceling a print job 107 Electronically Publishing Your Document 108 Preparing a document for publishing 108 Making a PDF 109 Exporting your document 110 Part 3: Fun with Formatting 111 Chapter 10: Character Formatting 113 Text Formatting Techniques 113 Basic Text Formats 114 Selecting a font 114 Applying character formats 116 Text Transcending Teensy to Titanic 118 Setting the text size 118 Nudging text size 119 More Colorful Text 119 Coloring the text 120 Shading the background 120 Change Text Case 121 Clear Character Formatting 122 Behold the Font Dialog Box 123 Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting 125 Paragraph Formatting Rules and Regulations 126 Formatting a paragraph 126 Locating the paragraph formatting commands 127 Justification and Alignment 128 Line up on the left! 128 Everyone center! 129 Line up on the right! 129 Line up on both sides! 129 Make Room Before, After, or Inside Paragraphs 130 Setting the line spacing 131 Making space between paragraphs 132 Paragraph Indentation Madness 133 Indenting the first line of a paragraph 133 Making a hanging indent (an outdent) 134 Indenting a whole paragraph 134 Using the ruler to adjust indents 135 Chapter 12: Tab Formatting 139 Once Upon a Tab 139 Seeing tab characters 140 Seeing tab stops 141 Using the ruler to set tab stops 142 Using the Tabs dialog box to set tabs 142 The Standard Left Tab Stop 144 Creating a basic tabbed list 144 Creating a 2-tab paragraph-thing 145 The Center Tab Stop 147 The Right Tab Stop 148 Making a right-stop, left-stop list 148 Building a 2-column right-stop list 150 The Decimal Tab 151 The Bar Tab 152 Fearless Leader Tabs 153 Tab Stop, Be Gone! 154 Chapter 13: Page Formatting 155 Describe That Page 155 Setting page size 156 Changing orientation (landscape or portrait) 157 Setting the page margins 158 Using the Page Setup dialog box 158 Page Numbering 160 Adding an automatic page number 160 Starting with a different page number 162 Numbering with Roman numerals 163 Removing page numbers 163 New Pages from Nowhere 164 Starting text on a new page 164 Inserting a blank page .165 Page Background Froufrou 165 Coloring pages 165 Printing colored pages 166 Adding a watermark 167 Chapter 14: Section Formatting 169 Slice a Document into Sections 170 Creating a section 171 Using sections 172 Removing a section break 173 That First Page 173 Adding a cover page 173 Inserting a cover page manually 174 Headers and Footers 175 Using a preset header or footer 175 Creating a custom header or footer 176 Working with multiple headers and footers 178 Removing a header or a footer 181 Chapter 15: Style Formatting 183 The Big Style Overview 183 Finding the styles 184 Using a style 185 Discovering the current style 186 Removing style formatting 187 Make Your Own Styles 187 Creating a style 188 Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box 188 Modifying a style 190 Assigning a shortcut key to a style 191 Deleting a style 192 Style Tips and Tricks 193 Changing the Normal style 193 Creating heading styles 194 Customizing the Style Gallery 194 Chapter 16: Template and Themes Formatting 197 Instant Documents with Templates 197 Using a template to start a new document 198 Changing a document''s attached template 200 Templates of Your Own 201 Creating a template based on a document you already have 201 Making a new template from scratch 202 Modifying a template 202 The Theme of Things 203 Applying a document theme 203 Modifying or creating a theme 204 Chapter 17:Random Drawer Formatting 207 Weird and Fun Text Effects 207 Steal This Format 209 Automatic Formatting 210 Enjoying automagical text 210 Formatting tricks for paragraphs 213 Undoing an AutoFormat 214 Center a Page, Top to Bottom 214 Part 4: Spruce Up A Dull Document 217 Chapter 18: They''re Called Borders 219 The Basics of Borders 220 Putting borders around a paragraph 221 Boxing multiple paragraphs 221 Removing borders 222 The Borders and Shading Dialog Box 222 Creating a fancy title 223 Boxing text 224 Applying a page border 224 Stick a thick line between paragraphs 225 Chapter 19:Able Tables 227 Put a Table in Your Document 227 Working with tables in.