Introduction 1 About This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: I''ll Take Word for $100 5 Chapter 1: Word Origins. 7 Word of the Day 7 Starting Word, the program 8 Starting Word, the online version 8 Opening a document to start Word 9 Your First Word 10 Working the Word Start screen 11 Beholding Word''s main screen 12 Navigating the ribbon 13 Showing and hiding the ribbon 14 Using Word on a touchscreen 15 Changing the document view 16 Viewing a document vertically or side-to-side 17 Making the document appear larger or smaller 17 Last Word 18 Quitting Word 18 Closing a document without quitting Word 19 Setting Word aside 20 Chapter 2: The Typing Chapter. 21 The New Hunt-and-Peck 21 Using the PC keyboard 22 Working the touch keyboard 23 Understanding the mouse pointer 24 Keyboard Do''s and Don''ts 25 Following the insertion pointer 25 Whacking the spacebar 26 Backing up and erasing 26 Pressing the Enter key 27 Table of Contents iii Stuff That Happens While You Type 27 Using text predictions 27 Watching the status bar 28 Observing page breaks 28 Working collapsible headers 29 Dealing with spots and clutter in the text 30 Understanding colorful underlines 30 Part 2: Your Basic Word 33 Chapter 3: Moving Around a Document 35 Scroll the Document 35 Working the vertical scroll bar 35 Using the horizontal scroll bar 37 Scrolling with the mouse wheel 37 Move the Insertion Pointer 38 Commanding the insertion pointer 38 Moving the insertion pointer in small increments 38 Moving from start to end 39 Return to the Previous Edit 40 Go to Wherever with the Go To Command 41 Chapter 4: Text Editing 43 Remove Text You Don''t Want 43 Plucking out single characters 44 Deleting a word 44 Deleting more than a word 45 Paragraph Playtime 47 Setting hard and soft returns 47 Splitting a paragraph 48 Joining two paragraphs 49 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 56 The Replace Part 58 Replacing text 58 Replacing formatting 59 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 66 Block Manipulation 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 76 Undoing an AutoCorrect correction 76 Creating a new AutoCorrect entry 77 Adjusting AutoCorrect settings 78 Grammar Be Good 79 All-at-Once Document Proofing 80 Reviewing all those errors 80 Rechecking a document 81 Document Proofing Settings 82 Editing the custom dictionary 82 Disabling automatic proofing 83 Hiding all proofing errors in a document 83 Dealing with Word''s refusal to spell-check 84 Chapter 8: Documents New, Saved, and Opened 85 Some Terms to Get Out of the Way 85 Behold! A New Document 86 Save Your Stuff! 87 Saving a document for the first time 88 Dealing with document-save errors 90 Saving or updating a document 90 Saving automatically on OneDrive 91 Forgetting to save before you quit 91 Open a Document 92 Using the Open command 92 Opening one document inside another 94 Recover a Draft 95 Chapter 9: Publish Your Document 97 Your Document on Paper 97 Previewing before printing 98 Printing the entire dang doodle document 98 Printing a specific page 100 Printing a range of pages 101 Printing on both sides of the page 102 Printing odd- and even-numbered pages 102 Printing a block 103 Printing more than one copy of something 104 Choosing another printer 104 Canceling a print job 105 Electronically Publishing Your Document 105 Preparing a document for publishing 105 Making a PDF 106 Exporting your document 107 Part 3: Fun with Formatting 109 Chapter 10: Character Formatting 111 Text Formatting Techniques 111 Basic Text Formats 112 Setting a font 113 Applying character formats 114 Text Transcending Teensy to Titanic 115 Setting the text size 116 Nudging text size 116 More Colorful Text 117 Coloring the text 117 Shading the background 118 Change Text Case 119 Clear Character Formatting 119 Behold the Font Dialog Box 120 Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting 123 Paragraph Formatting Rules and Regulations 124 Formatting a paragraph 124 Locating the paragraph formatting commands 125 Justification and Alignment 126 Line up on the left! 126 Everyone center! 126 Line up on the right! 127 Line up on both sides! 127 Make Room Before, After, or Inside Paragraphs 128 Setting the line spacing 128 Making space between paragraphs 129 Paragraph Indentation Madness 130 Indenting the first line of a paragraph 130 Making a hanging indent (an outdent) 131 Indenting a whole paragraph 132 Using the ruler to adjust indents 133 Chapter 12: Tab Formatting 135 Once Upon a Tab 135 Viewing the invisible tab characters 136 Seeing tab stops on the ruler 137 Using the ruler to set tab stops 138 Using the Tabs dialog box to set tabs 138 The Standard Left Tab Stop 140 Creating a basic tabbed list 140 Creating a 2-tab paragraph-thing 141 The Center Tab Stop 143 The Right Tab Stop 144 Making a right-stop, left-stop list 144 Building a 2-column right-stop list 145 The Decimal Tab 146 The Bar Tab 147 Fearless Leader Tabs 148 Tab Stop, Begone! 150 Chapter 13: Page Formatting 151 Describe That Page 151 Setting page size 152 Changing orientation (landscape or portrait) 152 Setting the page margins 153 Using the Page Setup dialog box 154 Page Numbering 156 Adding an automatic page number 156 Starting with a different page number 158 Numbering with Roman numerals 159 Removing page numbers 159 New Pages from Nowhere 160 Starting text on a new page 160 Inserting a blank page 161 Page Background Froufrou 161 Coloring pages 161 Printing colored pages 162 Adding a watermark 163 Chapter 14: Section Formatting 165 A Document Sliced into Sections 166 Reviewing section types 167 Creating a new section 167 Using sections 168 Removing a section break 169 That First Page 169 Adding a cover page 170 Inserting a cover page manually 170 Headers and Footers 171 Using a preset header or footer 171 Creating a custom header or footer 172 Working with multiple headers and footers 175 Removing a header or a footer 177 Chapter 15: Style Formatting 179 The Big Style Review 179 Locating styles in Word 180 Applying a style 182 Identifying the current style 182 Removing style formatting 183 Make Your Own Styles 183 Creating a style 184 Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box 185 Modifying a style 187 Assigning a shortcut key to a style 187 Deleting a style 188 Style Tips and Tricks 189 Changing the Normal style 189 Creating heading styles 190 Customizing the Style Gallery 191 Chapter 16: Template and Themes Formatting 193 Instant Documents with Templates 194 Using a template to start a new document 194 Changing a document''s attached template 196 Templates of Your Own 197 Building a template from an existing document 197 Modifying a template 198 The Theme of Things 199 Applying a document theme 200 Modifying or creating a theme 201 Chapter 17: Everything Drawer Formatting. 203 Weird and Fun Text Effects 203 Steal This Format! 205 Automatic Formatting 206 Enjoying automagical text 206 Formatting tricks for paragraphs 209 Undoing an AutoFormat 210 Center a Page, Top to Bottom 210 Part 4: Spruce Up a Dull Document 213 Chapter 18: They''re Called Borders 215 The Basics of Borders 216 Putting borders around a paragraph 217 Boxing multiple paragraphs 218 Removing borders 218 The Borders and Shading Dialog Box 218 Creating a fancy title 219 Boxing text 220 Applying a page border 22.