Word 2002 For Dummies Quick Reference

by Weverka, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780764508240
• ISBN10: 0764508245
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-15
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Word 2002 For Dummies Quick Reference covers everything you need to create professional looking Word documents for the home, office or the Web. It also covers the enhanced features of the new version/release: * Digital signatures that can prevent changes to content after the signature is attached * Multi-selecting * Easier formatting options * Improvements to Find and Replace, tables, footnotes, proofing tools, Mail Merge and more * Subscription Mode as an installation option * Flatter, more streamlined interface * Voice and text to speech recognition * New windows graphics effects, like fading toolbars * Revamped AutoCorrect options * Less prevalent Office Assistant * Enhanced Web and collaboration features This is THE quick and easy reference to Word you'll want to have at your fingertips!

Author Biography

About the Author Peter Weverka is the author of two dozen computer books, including Quicken For Dummies Quick Reference and ICQ For Dummies. His humorous articles and stories (none related to computers, thankfully) have appeared in Harper's, SPY, and other grown-up magazines.

Table of Contents

The Big Picture: Microsoft Word	1	(1)
What You See: What All That Stuff On-Screen Is	2	(3)
What You See: Viewing Documents in Different Ways	5	(1)
Toolbar Table: The Standard and Formatting Toolbars	6	(3)
The Basics: Creating a New Document	9	(1)
The Basics: Opening and Closing a Document	10	(3)
The conventional way to open a document	11	(1)
Speedy ways to open documents	12	(1)
Closing a document	13	(1)
The Basics: Saving Documents	13	(2)
Saving a document for the first time	13	(1)
Saving a document you've been working on	14	(1)
The Basics: Selecting Text in Speedy Ways	15	(1)
What You Can Do: Lay Out Documents in Sophisticated Ways	16	(2)
What You Can Do: Take Advantage of Word's Formatting Tricks	18
Entering the text	1	(8)
Breaking a Line	2	(1)
Changing Lowercase to Uppercase and Vice Versa	2	(1)
Changing the Font and Size of Text	3	(1)
Dashes	4	(1)
Hyphenating a Document	4	(2)
Hyphenating a document automatically	5	(1)
Hyphenating a document manually	5	(1)
Unhyphenating and other hyphenation tasks	6	(1)
Inserting a Whole File in a Document	6	(1)
Spacing Lines	7	(1)
Symbols and Special Characters	8	(1)
Editing a Document	9	(10)
Copying, Moving, and Pasting Text	10	(2)
Deleting Text	12	(1)
Finding a Missing Word, Paragraph, or Format	12	(2)
Finding and Replacing Text and Formats	14	(1)
Highlighting Parts of a Document	15	(1)
Spell-Checking (and Grammar-Checking) a Document	16	(3)
Correcting misspellings	16	(2)
Fixing grammar errors	18	(1)
Making Your Work Go Faster	19	(18)
Constructing Your Default Document	20	(1)
Correcting Typos on the Fly	20	(2)
Customizing Word	22	(7)
Choosing which buttons appear on toolbars	22	(3)
Creating your own toolbar	25	(1)
Changing the menu commands	26	(2)
Changing the keyboard shortcuts	28	(1)
Entering Graphics and Text Quickly	29	(2)
Creating your own AutoText entries	29	(1)
Inserting an AutoText entry	30	(1)
Entering Information Quickly with Forms	31	(3)
Creating a paper form	31	(1)
Creating a computerized form	32	(2)
Fast Formatting with the Format Painter	34	(1)
Repeating an Action -- and Quicker This Time	35	(1)
Undoing a Mistake	35	(2)
Formatting Text and Pages	37	(22)
Adding Bold, Italic, Underline, and Other Effects	38	(1)
Breaking a Page	39	(1)
Centering Justifying, and Aligning Text	40	(1)
Coloring Text	41	(1)
Creating Numbered and Bulleted Lists	41	(2)
Simple numbered and bulleted Lists	41	(1)
Ending and continuing lists	42	(1)
Constructing lists of your own	43	(1)
Dividing a Document into Sections	43	(1)
Exploring the AutoFormat Options	44	(1)
Fixing Spacing Problems in Headings	45	(1)
Indenting Paragraphs and First Lines	46	(1)
Landscape Documents	47	(1)
Numbering the Lines in a Document	48	(1)
Numbering the Pages	49	(2)
Putting Headers and Footers on Pages	51	(2)
Seeing What the Formats Are	53	(1)
Setting Up and Changing the Margins	54	(1)
Understanding How Paragraphs Work	55	(1)
Using Tabs	56	(2)
Working with the Ruler	58	(1)
Styles and Templates for Easier Formatting	59	(10)
All about Styles	60	(1)
Applying a Style to Text and Paragraphs	61	(1)
Copying Styles from Different Documents and Templates	62	(1)
Creating a New Style	63	(2)
Managing and Creating Templates	65	(2)
Modifying a Style	67	(2)
Techniques for Working on Complex Documents	69	(16)
Bookmarks for Hopping Around	70	(1)
Linking Documents to Make Your Work Easier	71	(2)
Creating a link	71	(1)
Updating, breaking, and changing links	72	(1)
Moving Around in Documents	73	(3)
Zipping around with the scroll bar	73	(1)
Keys for getting around quickly	74	(1)
``Browsing'' around a document	74	(1)
Going there fast with the Go To command	75	(1)
Hopping from place to place in the Document Map	75	(1)
Outlines for Organizing Your Work	76	(2)
Showing Revisions to Documents	78	(4)
Marking the changes	79	(1)
Marking changes when you forgot to turn on revision marks	79	(1)
Reading and reviewing a document with revision marks	80	(1)
Accepting and rejecting changes	81	(1)
Working on Many Documents Simultaneously	82	(1)
Working in Two Places in the Same Document	82	(2)
Opening a second window	83	(1)
Splitting the screen	83	(1)
Zooming In, Zooming Out	84	(1)
Printing Your Documents	85	(16)
Churning Out Letters, Labels, and Envelopes for Mass Mailings	86	(7)
Preparing the source file	86	(1)
Merging the source file with the document	87	(5)
Printing form letters, labels, and envelopes	92	(1)
Introducing Word to Your Printer	93	(1)
Previewing What You Print	94	(1)
Printing a Document	95	(2)
Printing a Single Address Label (or a Page of the Same Label)	97	(2)
Printing an Address on an Envelope	99	(2)
Constructing the Perfect Table	101	(14)
Catching Up to Table Jargon	102	(1)
Creating a Table	102	(3)
Entering the Text and Numbers	105	(1)
Making Text in Columns and Rows Align	105	(1)
Merging and Splitting Cells and Tables	106	(1)
Modifying the Table Layout	107	(3)
Selecting different parts of a table	107	(1)
Inserting and deleting columns and rows	107	(1)
Moving columns and rows	108	(1)
Resizing columns and rows	109	(1)
Repeating Header Rows on Subsequent Pages	110	(1)
Sorting, or Reordering, a Table	110	(1)
Sprucing Up Your Table	111	(4)
Formatting a table with Word's AutoFormats	111	(1)
Getting your own borders, shading, and color	112	(2)
Putting a table in the middle or side of the page	114	(1)
Writing Reports	115	(22)
Commenting on a Document	116	(2)
Creating a Table of Figures, Graphs and More	118	(1)
Generating a Table of Contents	119	(3)
Creating a TOC	120	(1)
Updating a TOC	121	(1)
Indexing a Document	122	(4)
Marking index items m the document	122	(2)
Generating an index	124	(2)
Editing an index	126	(1)
Numbering the Headings m a Document	126	(1)
Putting Captions on Figures and Tables	127	(2)
Putting Cross-References in a Document	129	(2)
Putting Footnotes and Endnotes in Documents	131	(3)
Inserting a footnote or endnote	132	(1)
Choosing the numbering scheme and position of notes	133	(1)
Deleting, moving, and editing notes	134	(1)
The Thesaurus's Role in Finding the Right Word	134	(3)
Managing Your Documents Better	137	(16)
Backing Up a Document	138	(1)
Backing up to a floppy disk or zip drive	138	(1)
Telling Word to create backup copies of documents	139	(1)
Deleting a Word Document	139	(1)
Entering and Getting Information about a Document	140	(1)
Finding a Missing Document	141	(3)
Conducting a basic search and reading the results	142	(1)
Conducting an advanced search	143	(1)
Importing and Exporting Files	144	(2)
Importing a file	145	(1)
Exporting a file	145	(1)
Protecting Your Work with Passwords	146	(4)
Keeping others from opening a document	146	(1)
Opening a password-protected document	147	(1)
Removing a password	147	(1)
Letting others read but not change a document	147	(1)
Protecting parts of a document from changes	148	(2)
Recovering a Document after a Power Failure	150	(1)
Renaming a Document	151	(1)
Saving Versions of Documents	151	(2)
Desktop and Web Publishing	153	(30)
Converting Word Documents to Web Pages	154	(1)
Turning a document into a Web page	154	(1)
Choosing backgrounds and themes for Web pages	154	(1)
Decorating a Page with a Border	155	(2)
Drawing Lines and Shapes	157	(2)
Dropping In a Drop Cap	159	(1)
Handling Objects m Documents	160	(6)
Selecting objects	160	(1)
Moving and resizing graphics, text boxes, and other objects	160	(2)
Borders and color shades for graphics, text boxes and other objects	162	(1)
Putting borders on objects	162	(1)
Filling an object with a color or gray shade	163	(1)
Rotating and flipping objects	163	(1)
Locking objects in place	163	(1)
Handling objects that overlap	164	(2)
Handling the Drawing Canvas	166	(1)
Hyperlinking to Other Places	167	(2)
Inserting Clip Art and Graphics in Documents	169	(4)
Inserting a clip art image from your computer	170	(1)
Inserting a photograph or graphic from your computer	171	(1)
Experimenting with brightness, contrast, and appearance	172	(1)
Cropping off part of a graphic	173	(1)
Making Room to Bind a Document	173	(1)
Putting Newspaper-Style Columns m a Document	173	(3)
Watermarking for the Elegant Effect	176	(1)
WordArt for Embellishing Documents	177	(2)
Working with Text Boxes	179	(1)
Inserting a text box	179	(1)
Changing the direction of the text	180	(1)
Linking the text in different text boxes	180	(1)
Wrapping Text around a Graphic, Drawing Canvas, or Other Object	180	(3)
Index	183