Silver Surfers' Color Guide to Word Processing

by Hobson, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780572032340
• ISBN10: 057203234X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Foulsham & Co Ltd

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(9)
What's in this book?	7	(2)
What do you need to get started?	9	(5)
Setting up your computer	14	(1)
A few words you'll find useful	14	(1)
Word processing	15	(1)
Chapter 1 What's Word Processing All About?	16	(18)
Microsoft Word	18	(1)
Finding your way around a keyboard	19	(4)
Words you need to know	23	(1)
Switch on and learn to tame the mouse	24	(2)
Opening the program	26	(8)
Chapter 2 Your First Document	34	(17)
The Main menu	35	(3)
The Standard toolbar	38	(1)
The Formatting toolbar	39	(1)
Keying in the text	40	(2)
Making it easy to see	42	(1)
Printing your first document	43	(1)
Saving your first document	44	(3)
Finding the exit	47	(2)
Using help	49	(2)
Chapter 3 Developing Your Skills	51	(15)
Opening your documents	52	(1)
Adding another paragraph	53	(1)
Scrolling around	54	(1)
Highlighting text	55	(2)
Undoing the last action	57	(1)
How to move text	58	(1)
How to copy and paste text	59	(2)
Different ways of viewing your document	61	(2)
More print options	63	(1)
Saving your new document	64	(2)
Chapter 4 Getting Organised	66	(24)
My documents	66	(3)
Creating and naming folders	69	(2)
Viewing your documents	71	(3)
Naming and saving documents	74	(3)
Browsing to find a document	77	(2)
Moving documents and folders	79	(1)
How to change a document or folder name	80	(1)
Copying and backing up	81	(2)
How to copy to a floppy disk	83	(1)
How to copy to a USB stick	84	(1)
How to copy to a CD	85	(3)
Throwing things away	88	(2)
Chapter 5 Making It Look Good	90	(10)
Choosing the font	90	(3)
Setting the type size	93	(1)
Changing text to bold, italic or underline	94	(1)
Changing to upper or lower case	95	(1)
Changing the line spacing	96	(1)
Using other font features	97	(3)
Chapter 6 Getting Fancy	100	(11)
Adjusting the margins	100	(1)
Changing the paper orientation	101	(1)
Setting the alignment	102	(1)
Creating indents	103	(1)
Changing the tabs	104	(2)
Setting up columns	106	(1)
Using bullet points	107	(1)
Using numbered points	107	(1)
Adding symbols	108	(1)
Adding the date and time	109	(2)
Chapter 7 Adding Boxes and Pictures	111	(13)
Adding borders	111	(5)
Adding drop caps	116	(1)
How to add clip art	117	(2)
How to add pictures	119	(1)
Wrapping text around a picture	120	(1)
Creating text boxes	121	(3)
Chapter 8 Making It Colourful	124	(9)
Choosing the font colour	124	(2)
Coloured highlights	126	(1)
Choosing a background colour	127	(1)
Inserting coloured borders and boxes	128	(1)
Adding fancy shading	129	(1)
WordArt	130	(3)
Chapter 9 Using Tables	133	(13)
How to set up a table	133	(2)
How to convert text to a table	135	(1)
Adding and deleting rows and columns	136	(1)
Moving rows and columns	137	(1)
Adjusting the column width	138	(1)
Sorting text into order	139	(2)
Using Autofit	141	(1)
Using Autoformat to create different styles	142	(1)
Merging and splitting cells	143	(3)
Chapter 10 Advanced Skills for Bigger Documents	146	(17)
Numbering the pages	146	(2)
Adding page breaks	148	(1)
Go to	149	(1)
Find and replace	150	(2)
Adding headers and footers	152	(1)
Using Spellcheck	153	(5)
Checking grammar	158	(1)
Using Autocorrect and Autotext	159	(2)
Word count	161	(2)
Chapter 11 Mail Merges	163	(18)
How does mail merge work?	163	(3)
Step-by-step mail merge	166	(8)
Earlier Windows or Mac programs	174	(3)
Printing mailing labels	177	(1)
Printing individual labels and envelopes	178	(3)
Chapter 12 Improving Accessibility	181	(11)
The accessibility wizard	182	(2)
Using the control panels	184	(5)
The magnifier	189	(1)
The onscreen keyboard	190	(1)
The narrator	190	(2)
Chapter 13 Step-by-step Projects	192	(22)
How to create headed notepaper	194	(2)
How to display a letter	196	(2)
How to keep a record of things to do	198	(2)
How to create an invitation	200	(2)
How to create a table of your addresses	202	(2)
How to print your Christmas-card or party-invitation labels	204	(2)
How to print a set of jar labels	206	(2)
How to record data on your family history	208	(2)
How to create a poster	210	(2)
How to create a family newsletter	212	(2)
Word-processing Terms You Might Come Across	214	(4)
Keyboard Shortcuts	218	(2)
Index	220