Word 97 for Windows<sup>®</sup> for Dummies<sup>®</sup> : Quick Reference: Peter Weverka: 9780764500701: Book: Computers: eCampus.com

The latest version of Microsoft Word, the world's leading word processing application, is packed with more features than anyone could remember. Luckily, with Word 97 For Windows For Dummies Quick Reference, you don't have to memorize shortcuts and commands -- just look them up when you need them. Right at your fingertips, you find all the ready-to-use, practical information you need to become productive with this latest update to your favorite word processor.

Everything a user needs to know about Word, from opening a document to editing, printing, desktop publishing, and formatting is explained in this quick and easy-to-use reference. Users won't need to fumble around for the answers, because it's all at their fingertips. The book helps users make Word work for them by covering essentials like formatting documents and text, printing, and desktop publishing.

Introduction

(4)

Part I: Word Processing 101

(12)

What is a Document?

(1)

Cursors, Cursors, and More Cursors

(1)

The Keyboard

(1)

Using the Mouse

(1)

Making Menu Choices

(2)

Shortcut keys for doing it quickly

(1)

Those mysterious shortcut menus

(6)

Filling In a Dialog Box

(2)

What All That Stuff On-Screen Is

(1)

Understanding How Paragraphs Work

(1)

Starting Word 97

(1)

A Quick Look at Windows 95

(1)

Changing the size of the Word 97 window

(1)

Switching applications with the taskbar

(1)

PART II: Editing and Other Essentials

(38)

Breaking a line

(1)

Breaking a Page

(1)

Changing the Look of the Screen

(1)

Changing lowercase to UPPERCASE, UPPERCASE to lowercase

(1)

Closing a Document

(1)

Copying, Moving, Pasting Text

(1)

Dashes

(1)

Deleting Text

(1)

Deleting a Word Document

(1)

Exiting Word 97

(1)

Finding and Replacing Text and Formats

(2)

Finding the Right Word with the Thesaurus

(1)

Finding Text and More

(1)

Getting the Help You Need

(3)

Hyphenating a Document

(2)

Hyphenating a document automatically

(1)

Hyphenating a document manually

(1)

Unhyphenating and other hyphenation tasks

(1)

Inserting a Whole File in a Document

(1)

Moving Around in Documents

(1)

Keys for getting around quickly

(1)

Zipping around with the scroll bar

(1)

Numbering the Pages

(2)

Opening an Existing Document

(1)

Opening a New Document

(1)

Putting Headers and Footers on Pages

(2)

Renaming a Document

(1)

Saving a Document for the First Time

(1)

Saving a Document under a New Name

(1)

Saving a Document You've Been Working On

(1)

Selecting Text in Speedy Ways

(1)

Spacing Lines

(4)

Spell-Checking (And Grammar-Checking) a Document

(2)

Correcting misspellings

(2)

Fixing grammar errors

(1)

Symbols and Special Characters

(1)

Undoing a Mistake

(1)

Viewing Documents in Different Ways

(1)

Working on Many Documents at Once

(1)

Working in Two Places in the Same Document

(1)

Opening a second window

(1)

Splitting the screen

(1)

Zooming In, Zooming Out

(3)

Part III: Formatting Documents and Text

(28)

Adding Bold, Italic, Underline, and Other Effects

(1)

Centering, Justifying, and Aligning Text

(1)

Changing the Font of Text

(1)

Creating Numbered and Bulleted Lists

(2)

Simple numbered and bulleted lists

(1)

Ending and continuing lists

(1)

Constructing lists of your own

(1)

Dividing a Document into Sections

(1)

Dropping In a Drop Cap

(1)

Formatting a Document

(7)

Fast formatting with the Format Painter

(1)

Using styles for consistents formatting

(5)

Using styles from the Style Gallery

(1)

Indenting Paragraphs and First Lines

(2)

Numbering the Heading in a Document

(1)

Numbering the Lines in a Document

(1)

Putting Newspaper-Style Columns in a Document

(3)

Setting Up and Changing the Margins

(2)

Working with the Ruler

(1)

Working with Tabs

(4)

Part IV: Printing Your Documents

(16)

Previewing What You Print

(1)

Printing Addresses on Envelopes

(3)

Printing On Different-Sized Paper

(1)

Printing a Document

(1)

Printing Labels

(5)

Printing labels one at a time

(1)

Printing labels for mass mailings

(3)

Solving Problems with the Printer

(1)

Telling Word 97 How to Print Documents

(3)

Part V: Making Your Work Go Faster

(34)

Bookmarks for Hopping Around

100

(1)

Churning Out Form Letters

101

(4)

Correcting Typos on the Fly

105

(3)

Customizing Word 97

108

(3)

Changing the Menu commands

108

(2)

Changing the Keyboard shortcuts

110

(1)

Entering Graphics and Text Quickly

111

(2)

Creating your own Auto Text entries

112

(1)

Inserting an Auto Text entey

112

(1)

Entering Information Quickly with Forms

113

(3)

Creating a paper form

113

(1)

Creating a computerized form

114

(2)

Going Here, Going There in Documents

116

(2)

"Browsing" around a document

116

(1)

Going there fast

116

(1)

Hopping from place to place

117

(1)

Linking Documents to save on Work

118

(3)

Creating a link

118

(1)

Updating, breaking, and changing links

119

(2)

Master Documents for Really Big Jobs

121

(4)

Creating a new master document

122

(1)

Assembling documents for a master document

123

(1)

Working on master documents and subdocuments

124

(1)

Removing, moving, locking, splitting, merging, and renaming subdocuments

124

(1)

Outlines for Organizing Your Work

125

(2)

Rearranging the Toolbars

127

(4)

Displaying other toolbars

127

(1)

Putting your own buttons on toolbars

128

(2)

Creating your own toolbar

130

(1)

Repeating an Action -- and Quicker This Time

131

(1)

Searching with Wildcards

132

(1)

Part VI: Desktop Publishing

133

(40)

Anchoring Text and Graphics

134

(2)

Bordering, Shading, and Coloring Backgrounds for Text

136

(3)

Borders and Color Shades for Graphics and Text Boxes

139

(1)

Putting borders on text boxes and graphics

139

(1)

Filling a text box or graphic with a color of gray shade

140

(1)

Coloring Text

140

(1)

Constructing the Perfect Table

141

(14)

Creating a table

142

(2)

Entering text and numbers in a table

144

(1)

Changing the layout of a table

144

(4)

Aligning text in columns and rows

148

(1)

Sorting, or reordering, a table

148

(2)

Formatting a table with Word's "AutoFormats"

150

(1)

Getting your own borders, shading, and color

151

(2)

Repeating header rows on subsequent pages

153

(1)

Merging and splitting cells and tables

153

(1)

Using math formulas in tables

154

(1)

Decorating a Page with Borders and Background

155

(2)

Backgrounds for embellishing pages

155

(1)

Putting borders around a page

156

(1)

Drawing in Word 97

157

(1)

Fixing Spacing Problems in Headings

158

(1)

Including Charts and Graphs in Documents

159

(1)

Inserting Pictures and Graphics in Documents

160

(2)

Inserting a clip art image

160

(1)

Experimenting with brightness and contrast

161

(1)

Cropping off part of a graphic

162

(1)

Keeping Paragraphs and Lines Together

162

(2)

"Landscape" Documents

164

(1)

Moving and Resizing Graphics, Text Boxes, and Shapes

165

(1)

Moving an object on the page

165

(1)

Changing an object's size and shape

165

(1)

"Watermarking" for the Elegant Effect

166

(1)

WordArt for Embellishing Documents

167

(1)

Working with Text Boxes

168

(1)

Inserting a text box

168

(1)

Changing the direction of the text

168

(1)

Linking the text in different text boxes

169

(1)

Wrapping Text around a Text Box or Graphic

169

(4)

Part VII: Fancy and Esoteric Stuff

173

(26)

Commenting on a Document

174

(1)

Creating a Table of Figures, Graphs, and More

175

(2)

Creating Your Own Web Page

177

(2)

Creating a Web page from scratch

177

(1)

Converting Word documents to Web pages

178

(1)

Generating a Table of Contents

179

(1)

Hidden Text and Secret Messages

180

(1)

Hyperlinking in Word 97

181

(3)

Creating a hyperlink

182

(1)

Traveling from hyperlink to hyperlink

183

(1)

Indexing a Document

184

(4)

Marking index items in the document

185

(1)

Generating an index

186

(2)

Editing an index

188

(1)

Putting Captions on Figures and Tables

188

(2)

Putting Cross-References in a Document

190

(2)

Putting Footnotes and Endnotes in Documents

192

(3)

Inserting a footnote or endnote

192

(1)

Changing the numbering scheme and position of notes

193

(1)

Deleting, Moving, and editing notes

194

(1)

Tracking Revisions to Documents

195

(4)

Marking the changes

195

(2)

Comparing and merging documents

197

(1)

Accepting and rejecting revisions

197

(2)

Part VIII: Potpourri

199

(14)

Backing Up Your Work

200

(3)

Backing up to a floppy disk or tape drive

200

(1)

Backing up files in Word 97

201

(1)

Recovering a file with AutoRecover

202

(1)

Opening a backup copy of a file

203

(1)

Finding a Missing File

203

(1)

Getting Information about a Document

204

(1)

Highlighting Parts of a Document

205

(1)

Importing and Exporting Files

206

(1)

Importing a file

206

(1)

Exporting a files

207

(1)

Including Video Clips, Animation, and Sound in Documents

207

(1)

Protecting Your Work with Passwords

208

(5)

Keeping others from opening a file

209

(1)

Opening a password-protected file

210

(1)

Removing a Password

210

(1)

Keeping others from changing a file

210

(1)

Protecting parts of a document from changes

211

(2)

Glossary: Techie Talk

213

(4)

Index

217

Reader Response Card

About the Author Peter Weverka is the author of seven computer books, including Dummies 101: Word 97 For Windows and Dummies 101: Microsoft Office 97 For Windows, both by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., and Quicken 6 for Busy People by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. His humorous articles and stories (none related to computers, thankfully) have appeared in Harper's and the Exquisite Corpse. Peter is also an editor. He has polished, cleaned up, and actually read over 80 computer books on topics ranging from word processing to desktop publishing to the Internet. He edited about 50 of those books online with Microsoft Word. Peter believes that the goal of all computing is to help you get your work done faster so you don't have to sit in front of the computer anymore. His favorite pastime is pruning trees; his greatest pleasure, jawing with his children.


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