Introduction 1 What''s in This Book, Anyway? 1 What Makes This Book Different 2 Easy-to-look-up information 2 A task-oriented approach 3 Meaningful screen shots 3 Foolish Assumptions 3 Conventions Used in This Book 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Book I: Common Office Tasks 5 Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts 7 A Survey of Office Applications 7 Starting an Office Program 9 Starting an Office program in Windows 7 and Vista 9 Starting an Office program in Windows 8 10 Finding Your Way Around the Office Interface 12 The File tab and Backstage 13 The Quick Access toolbar 13 The Ribbon and its tabs 14 Context-sensitive tabs 14 The anatomy of a tab 15 Live previewing 16 Mini-toolbars and shortcut menus 17 Office 2013 for keyboard lovers 17 Saving Your Files 18 Saving a file 18 Saving a file for the first time 18 Declaring where you like to save files 19 Saving AutoRecovery information 20 Navigating the Save As and Open Windows 21 Opening and Closing Files 23 Opening a file 23 Closing a file 24 Reading and Recording File Properties 24 Locking a File with a Password 25 Password-protecting a file 25 Removing a password from a file 26 Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text 27 Manipulating the Text 27 Selecting text 27 Moving and copying text 28 Taking advantage of the Clipboard task pane 29 Deleting text 30 Changing the Look of Text 30 Choosing fonts for text 31 Changing the font size of text 32 Applying font styles to text 33 Applying text effects to text 34 Underlining text 35 Changing the color of text 35 Quick Ways to Handle Case, or Capitalization 36 Entering Symbols and Foreign Characters 38 Creating Hyperlinks 39 Linking a hyperlink to a web page 39 Creating a hyperlink to another place in your file 41 Creating an e-mail hyperlink 42 Repairing and removing hyperlinks 43 Chapter 3: Speed Techniques Worth Knowing About 45 Undoing and Repeating Commands 45 Undoing a mistake 45 Repeating an action -- and quicker this time 46 Zooming In, Zooming Out 47 Viewing a File Through More Than One Window 48 Correcting Typos on the Fly 48 Entering Text Quickly with the AutoCorrect Command 50 Book II: Word 2013 53 Chapter 1: Speed Techniques for Using Word 55 Introducing the Word Screen 55 Creating a New Document 57 Getting a Better Look at Your Documents 60 Viewing documents in different ways 60 Splitting the screen 63 Selecting Text in Speedy Ways 64 Moving Around Quickly in Documents 65 Keys for getting around quickly 65 Navigating from page to page or heading to heading 66 Going there fast with the Go To command 66 Bookmarks for hopping around 68 Inserting a Whole File into a Document 69 Entering Information Quickly in a Computerized Form 69 Creating a computerized form 70 Entering data in the form 72 Chapter 2: Laying Out Text and Pages 73 Paragraphs and Formatting 73 Inserting a Section Break for Formatting Purposes 74 Breaking a Line 76 Starting a New Page 76 Setting Up and Changing the Margins 77 Indenting Paragraphs and First Lines 79 Clicking an Indent button (for left-indents) 79 "Eyeballing it" with the ruler 80 Indenting in the Paragraph dialog box 81 Numbering the Pages 81 Numbering with page numbers only 82 Including a page number in a header or footer 83 Changing page number formats 83 Putting Headers and Footers on Pages 84 Creating, editing, and removing headers and footers 85 Fine-tuning a header or footer 87 Adjusting the Space between Lines 88 Adjusting the Space Between Paragraphs 89 Creating Numbered and Bulleted Lists 90 Simple numbered and bulleted lists 90 Constructing lists of your own 91 Managing a multilevel list 92 Working with Tabs 93 Hyphenating Text 94 Automatically and manually hyphenating a document 95 Unhyphenating and other hyphenation tasks 96 Chapter 3: Word Styles 97 All About Styles 97 Styles and templates 97 Types of styles 98 Applying Styles to Text and Paragraphs 99 Applying a style 99 Experimenting with style sets 100 Choosing which style names appear on the Style menus 101 Creating a New Style 103 Creating a style from a paragraph 103 Creating a style from the ground up 103 Modifying a Style 105 Creating and Managing Templates 106 Creating a new template 107 Opening a template so that you can modify it 110 Modifying, deleting, and renaming styles in templates 111 Chapter 4: Constructing the Perfect Table 113 Talking Table Jargon 113 Creating a Table 114 Entering the Text and Numbers 116 Selecting Different Parts of a Table 117 Laying Out Your Table 118 Changing the size of a table, columns, and rows 118 Adjusting column and row size 119 Inserting columns and rows 119 Deleting columns and rows 121 Moving columns and rows 122 Aligning Text in Columns and Rows 122 Merging and Splitting Cells 123 Repeating Header Rows on Subsequent Pages 124 Formatting Your Table 125 Designing a table with a table style 125 Calling attention to different rows and columns 127 Decorating your table with borders and colors 127 Using Math Formulas in Tables 130 Neat Table Tricks 131 Changing the direction of header row text 131 Wrapping text around a table 132 Using a picture as the table background 133 Drawing diagonal lines on tables 134 Drawing on a table 135 Chapter 5: Taking Advantage of the Proofing Tools 137 Correcting Your Spelling Errors 137 Correcting misspellings one at a time 138 Running a spell-check 139 Preventing text from being spell checked 140 Checking for Grammatical Errors in Word 141 Getting a Word Definition 142 Finding and Replacing Text 142 The basics: Finding stray words and phrases 143 Narrowing your search 144 Conducting a find-and-replace operation 149 Researching a Topic Inside Word 150 Finding the Right Word with the Thesaurus 152 Proofing Text Written in a Foreign Language 153 Telling Office which languages you will use 153 Marking text as foreign language text 154 Translating Foreign Language Text 155 Chapter 6: Desktop Publishing with Word 157 Experimenting with Themes 157 Sprucing Up Your Pages 159 Decorating a page with a border 159 Putting a background color on pages 160 Getting Word''s help with cover letters 160 Making Use of Charts, Diagrams, Shapes, Clip Art, and Photos 161 Working with the Drawing Canvas 162 Positioning and Wrapping Objects Relative to the Page and Text 163 Wrapping text around an object 163 Positioning an object on a page 165 Working with Text Boxes 167 Inserting a text box 167 Making text flow from text box to text box 168 Dropping In a Drop Cap 168 Watermarking for the Elegant Effect 169 Putting Newspaper-Style Columns in a Document 170 Doing the preliminary work 170 Running text into columns 171 Landscape Documents 172 Printing on Different Size Paper 173 Showing Online Video in a Document 173 Chapter 7: Getting Word''s Help with Office Chores 175 Highlighting Parts of a Document 175 Commenting on a Document 176 Entering a comment 176 Viewing and displaying comments 178 Caring for and feeding comments 178 Tracking Changes to Documents 179 Telling Word to start marking changes 180 Reading and reviewing a document with change marks 180 Marking changes when you forgot to turn on change marks 182 Accepting and rejecting changes to a document 184 Printing an Address on an Envelope 184 Printing a Single Address Label (Or a Page of the Same Label) 186 Churning Out Letters, Envelopes, and Labels for Mass Mailings 187 Preparing the source file 188 Merging the document with the source file 189 Printing form letters, envelopes, and labels 193 Chapter 8: Tools for Reports and Scholarly Papers 195 Alphabetizing a List 195 Outlines for Organizing Your Work 196 Viewing the outline in different ways 197 Rearranging document sections in Outline view 197 Collapsing and Expanding Parts of a Document 198 Generating a Table of Contents 199 Creating a TOC 199 Updating and removing a TOC 200 Customizing a TOC 200 Changing the structure of a TOC 201 Indexing a Document 203 Marking index items in the document 203 Generating the index 205 Editing an index 206 Putting Cross-References in a Document 207 Putting Footnotes and Endnotes in Documents 209 Entering a footnote or endnote 209 Choosing the numbering scheme and position of notes 210 Deleting, moving, and editing notes 211 Compiling a Bibliography 211 Inserting a citation for your bibliography 212 Editing a citation 214 Changing how citations appear in text 214 Generat.