WordPerfect 11 For Dummies

by Young, Margaret Levine; Kay, David C.; Wagner, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780764543524
• ISBN10: 0764543520
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-10
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Get up to speed on all your basic word processing skills Use styles and formats, add borders, create form letters, even put pages on the Web Remember when life was simple - you typed something, and it ended up on paper? Simplicity is back! This book tells you how to do what you want to do - produce great-looking documents. Of course, if you discover you want more, it also covers adding context-sensitive links to your long documents and other cool stuff. You decide. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * "Get in, get out" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun

Author Biography

Margaret Levine Young is an author, consultant, and lecturer who has cowritten two dozen computer books. David Kay is an engineer and aspiring artist who has authored 12 books.

Table of Contents

Introduction
How to Use This Book	1	(1)
Conventions Used in This Book l
Who Am Us, Anyway?	2	(1)
How This Book Is Organized	2	(2)
Part I: Introducing WordPerfect 11 for Windows	3	(1)
Part II: Prettying Up Your Text	3	(1)
Part III: Things You Can Do with Documents	3	(1)
Part IV: Creating Documents that Don't Just Sit There	3	(1)
Part V: The Part of Tens	4	(1)
Icons Used in This Book	4	(1)
Where to Go from Here	4	(1)
Part I: Introducing WordPerfect 11 for Windows	5	(76)
Chapter 1: WordPerfect Basics	7	(12)
Starting WordPerfect	7	(1)
Jumpstarting WordPerfect	8	(1)
A Perfectly Good Window	8	(2)
Typing Something	10	(1)
Typing More Than a Line	11	(1)
Saving Documents	11	(4)
Saving a document for the first time	12	(1)
Saving a file for the second time	13	(1)
Saving a document for the third, fourth, and fifth time	14	(1)
Filename rules	14	(1)
Opening and Editing Files	15	(1)
Printing Your Document	16	(1)
Leaving WordPerfect	17	(1)
Getting Some Help	18	(1)
Chapter 2: Using Toolbars, Dialog Boxes, and Commands	19	(14)
Choosing Commands from Menus	20	(2)
Clicking the Menu bar	21	(1)
Choosing a command	21	(1)
Fooling with Toolbars	22	(4)
Toiling with the Toolbar	22	(1)
Producing results with the Property Bar	23	(2)
Applying yourself to the Application Bar	25	(1)
Using Dialog Boxes	26	(1)
Using QuickMenus	27	(1)
Using the Ruler	28	(1)
Help, Help-Help, and More Help	29	(4)
Using the Help menu	29	(1)
Asking the PerfectExpert	30	(2)
Getting context-sensitive help	32	(1)
Chapter 3: Cruising the Document	33	(12)
Two - Count 'Em, Two - Ways	34	(1)
Mousing Around	34	(5)
Moving nearby	35	(1)
Moving to the far reaches of the document	35	(4)
Using the Keyboard: Staying Close to Home	39	(3)
Using Ctrl with the arrow keys	40	(1)
Moving farther and faster	41	(1)
Going Anywhere and Getting Back Again	42	(3)
Chapter 4: Fooling with Blocks of Text	45	(12)
Selecting Text: The Point-and-Shoot Approach	46	(2)
Using the Mouse to Select Words, Sentences, and More	48	(3)
The QuickMenu approach	50	(1)
The Menu bar approach	50	(1)
Selecting Text with the Keyboard	51	(1)
Extending Selections	52	(1)
Doing Stuff with Selected Text	53	(1)
Deleting text	53	(1)
Moving text	54	(1)
Copying text	54	(1)
Using the Windows Clipboard	54	(3)
Copying and pasting with the Clipboard	54	(1)
Cutting and pasting with the Clipboard	55	(1)
Using the QuickMenu approach to Clipboarding	56	(1)
Chapter 5: Making Text Improvements	57	(24)
Deleting Text	57	(3)
Dealing with Backspace and Delete	58	(1)
Using insert and typeover modes	59	(1)
Just (Un)Do It	60	(1)
Tweaking the Way Undo Behaves	61	(1)
The Search for Sanity: Finding Text in a Document	61	(3)
Changing the way you search	62	(1)
Searching for sanity and finding insanity	63	(1)
Getting picky about what you find	64	(1)
Finding and Replacing Text	64	(3)
Find and replace tips	65	(1)
Finding and replacing all forms of a word	66	(1)
Typing Less-Than-Perfect Words	67	(7)
Spell-As-You-Go makes you see red	67	(1)
Grammar-As-You-Go says that you blue it	68	(1)
Turning on and off Spell- and Grammar-As-You-Go	69	(1)
Prompt-As-You-Go suggests perfect words	69	(1)
QuickCorrect changes your words even as you type them	70	(2)
Flying the Spell Checker yourself	72	(2)
Dealing with Real Words that WordPerfect Doesn't Know	74	(2)
Adding words to WordPerfect's vocabulary	74	(1)
Fixing and customizing WordPerfect's vocabulary	75	(1)
Dealing with Grammatik	76	(7)
Taming the roar of the mighty Thesaurus	76	(2)
Getting precise definitions with the Dictionary	78	(3)
Part II: Prettying, up Your Text	81	(100)
Chapter 6: Giving Your Documents Character	83	(14)
Adding Emphasis	83	(3)
Typing and formatting at the same time	84	(1)
Getting a clue from the Property Bar	84	(1)
Changing the formatting of selected text	85	(1)
The Amazing Shrinking (or Expanding) Text	86	(2)
Fontificating about Typefaces	88	(3)
Changing the font for a selection of text	89	(1)
Choose a font for the rest of the document	89	(1)
Embedding fonts in your document	90	(1)
Character Formatting Central	91	(3)
Hot properties in the Font Properties dialog box	91	(2)
Formatting an entire document	93	(1)
Changing the default font for your documents	94	(1)
Copying Character Formatting	94	(1)
Linking and Unlinking Formatting	95	(1)
Changing Capitalization	96	(1)
Chapter 7: Sensational Sentences and Pretty Paragraphs	97	(28)
The Ruler (Kinda Sorta) Rules	98	(2)
What are all those doodads on the ruler?	99	(1)
The Ruler - why bother7	100	(1)
Marginal Improvements	100	(7)
Dragging the margin lines	100	(2)
Using the margins dialog box	102	(2)
Changing margins for the rest of the document	104	(1)
Indenting paragraphs	105	(2)
How We Justify Things	107	(3)
Our five favorite justifications	107	(1)
Justifications for text: Left, center, right, and their friends	108	(1)
Justification for skipping Center and Flush Right	109	(1)
Using Hyphens to Hack Words in Half	110	(1)
Pulling Out the (Tab) Stops and Other Tab Tricks	111	(4)
Setting your tab stops where you want them	112	(2)
Slithering tab stops across the ruler	114	(1)
Removing unwanted tab stops	114	(1)
Setting new tab stops	115	(1)
To Tab or Not to Tab?	115	(3)
Indenting the first line of each paragraph	116	(1)
Tabbing yourself in the back	117	(1)
Single Space, Double Space, Any Space	118	(1)
Changing the Spacing between Paragraphs	119	(1)
Beyond the List Horizon	119	(6)
Adding bullets to existing paragraphs	120	(1)
Creating a new bulleted list	120	(1)
Using an arrow, block, or smiley for a bullet	121	(1)
Creating multiple levels of bullets	121	(1)
Numbering an existing set of paragraphs	122	(1)
Creating a new numbered list	123	(2)
Chapter 8: Perfect Pages and Dashing Documents	125	(20)
Setting the Page Size	125	(2)
Adjusting the Top and Bottom Margins	127	(1)
Starting a New Page	128	(1)
Keeping Text Together	129	(3)
Avoiding broken homes (widows and orphans)	129	(1)
Keeping your text together	130	(1)
Keeping your head together	131	(1)
Centering a Page, Top to Bottom	132	(1)
Looking at Different Views of Your Document	133	(1)
Numbering Pages	134	(3)
For all you Roman numeral fans	136	(1)
Starting over again at 1	136	(1)
Adding Heads and Feets	137	(6)
Making a header or footer	138	(1)
Typing the text in a header or footer	139	(1)
Controlling where headers and footers print	140	(1)
Don't print it here!	141	(1)
Discontinuing headers and footers	142	(1)
Getting rid of a header or footer	142	(1)
The Big Squeeze: Using Make It Fit to Tweak Your Document's Length	143	(2)
Chapter 9: The WordPerfect Secret Decoder Ring	145	(18)
Getting Used to the Codes	146	(2)
Understanding the Reveal Codes window	146	(2)
Adjusting the size of the windows	148	(1)
Getting rid of the Reveal Codes window	148	(1)
Cracking the Codes	148	(1)
Looking at codes	148	(1)
Modifying codes	149	(1)
Deleting codes	149	(1)
Using the Open Style Code	149	(1)
Using Character Codes	150	(1)
Character-Formatting Codes	151	(1)
Undoing character formatting	151	(1)
Editing formatted text	151	(1)
Undoing Sentence and Paragraph Formatting	152	(1)
Undoing Page and Document Formatting	153	(1)
Finding Codes	153	(5)
Finding all codes of one type	154	(2)
Finding specific codes	156	(1)
Knowing what to do after you find your code	157	(1)
Replacing Codes Automagically	158	(5)
Replacing specific codes with other codes	158	(1)
Replacing codes with other codes	159	(1)
Deleting all the codes	160	(1)
Dealing with mysterious codes	161	(2)
Chapter 10: Documents with Style	163	(18)
Direct Formatting: Natural, But Highly Inefficient	164	(1)
Using Styles to Get Consistent Document Appearance	165	(1)
A Style by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet	166	(1)
Creating and Applying a Style	166	(3)
Creating a style using QuickStyle	166	(2)
Applying a character style	168	(1)
Creating a paragraph style using QuickStyle	168	(1)
Applying a paragraph style	169	(1)
Built-In Styles	169	(2)
Heading styles	170	(1)
DocumentStyle	170	(1)
More built-in styles	171	(1)
The Styles Dialog Box	171	(2)
Creating Styles from Scratch, or Modifying Existing Styles	173	(4)
Creating a style from scratch	174	(2)
Modifying existing styles	176	(1)
Creating a document style	176	(1)
Applying a document style	177	(1)
Turning Off Styles	177	(1)
Reusing Styles	178	(2)
Copying styles from an existing document	178	(1)
Adding styles to the default WordPerfect template	178	(1)
Saving styles in a separate file	179	(1)
Getting Rid of Styles	180	(1)
Part III: Thin's You Can Do with Documents	181	(54)
Chapter 11: On Paper at Last- Printing Stuff	183	(16)
Ready to Print?	183	(1)
Printing an Entire Document	184	(3)
Printing Part of a Document	187	(2)
Printing selected text	187	(1)
Printing a specific page	188	(1)
Printing several pages	188	(1)
Printing random pages	188	(1)
Other Cool Ways to Print	189	(5)
Printing on both sides	189	(3)
Printing several copies	192	(1)
Printing enlarged or reduced documents	193	(1)
Printing a Document from Disk	194	(1)
Printing Several Documents	195	(1)
Canceling a Print Job	195	(4)
WordPerfect, stop printing!	196	(1)
Windows, stop printing!	197	(2)
Chapter 12: Juggling Documents	199	(10)
Working on Two Documents at the Same Time	200	(2)
Switching between open documents	200	(1)
Working with multiple documents	200	(2)
Maxing out	202	(1)
Closing the curtains	202	(1)
Combining Documents	202	(2)
Inserting one document into another one	202	(1)
Saving a chunk of text as a separate document	203	(1)
Finding a File with a Forgotten Name	204	(2)
File Management, the WordPerfect Way	206	(3)
Creating a folder	206	(1)
Moving a file	206	(1)
Copying a file	207	(1)
Deleting a file	208	(1)
Chapter 13: Boxing without the Gloves	209	(26)
Adding Borders and Backgrounds	209	(4)
Basic borders	210	(1)
Phil ... for all that white space behind your text	211	(1)
Some miscellaneous thoughts about borders	212	(1)
Dividing Text into Columns	213	(4)
Creating columns	214	(1)
Turning off the Columns function	215	(1)
Bad breaks and what to do about them	216	(1)
Presenting Text in Tables	217	(8)
Making tables with Table QuickCreate	217	(1)
Adding rows and columns	218	(1)
Deleting tables, rows, and columns	219	(1)
Changing column width	220	(2)
Formatting with SpeedFormat	222	(1)
Dealing with incredibly complex spreadsheet-like tables	223	(2)
Corralling Text in Text Boxes	225	(8)
Selecting your box	227	(1)
Moving a box to more or less where you want it	227	(1)
Making a box more or less the right size	227	(1)
Changing everything else about a box	228	(1)
The Graphics menu	228	(1)
Moving a box exactly where you want it	229	(2)
Making a box exactly the right size	231	(1)
Adding captions to your boxes	232	(1)
Text wrapping	232	(1)
Drawing Lines and Arrows in Your Document	233	(2)
Part IV: Creating Documents that Don't Just Sit There	235	(76)
Chapter 14: Saying It with Pictures	231	(24)
Working with Graphics	237	(5)
Inserting some of Corel's Clipart into your document	238	(2)
Selecting Clipart from the Internet	240	(1)
Inserting a picture from somewhere else into your document	241	(1)
Creating Your Own Graphics	242	(7)
Drawing a line in a document	243	(1)
Being careful where you click	243	(3)
Whipping shapes into your drawings	246	(2)
Putting text in your drawings	248	(1)
TextArt?! Text by Artists	249	(3)
Using Graphs and Charts	252	(3)
Chapter 15: Creating Your Own Junk Mail	255
Exploring the Everyday Uses of Merge	255	(1)
How Does Document Merge Work2	256	(1)
Creating a WordPerfect Data File	257	(6)
Making the data file	258	(2)
Entering your data	260	(1)
Viewing tasteful data files	261	(1)
Viewing ugly data files	262	(1)
Making corrections	262	(1)
Creating a Form Document	263	(4)
Merging Your Files	267	(3)
Printing Your Data File	270
Chapter 16: Recipes and Templates for Popular Documents	211	(80)
What Are Templates?	271	(1)
Not a Template but Just as Good	272	(1)
Using Templates	273	(2)
Letters	275	(5)
Getting WordPerfect to write your letter for you	275	(3)
Printing your own letterhead	278	(1)
Skipping space for the letterhead on stationery	278	(1)
Dating your letter and numbering the pages	279	(1)
Saving your letter as a prototype document	279	(1)
Memos	280	(1)
Faxes	280	(3)
What do you need?	280	(1)
Just the fax, ma'am	281	(2)
Envelopes	283	(2)
Printing the address on the envelope	283	(1)
Tips for printing envelopes	284	(1)
Mailing Labels	285	(3)
Printing addresses on mailing labels	285	(1)
Selecting which labels to print	286	(1)
Tips for printing labels	287	(1)
Booklets	288	(2)
Creating a booklet document	288	(1)
Printing your booklet - the magic part	289	(1)
Reports and Other Big Documents	290	(1)
Master documents and subdocuments	291	(1)
Expanding the master document	292	(1)
Saving a master document	292	(1)
Editing a master document	293	(1)
Creating a table of contents	294
Chapter 17: Publishing Web Pages and the Flying Trapeze	291	(20)
Hypertext, the Internet, and the Web	298	(1)
Hyperlinks and Bookmarks	299	(5)
Creating a bookmark	299	(2)
Creating a hyperlink	301	(2)
Using the Hyperlink Property Bar	303	(1)
Publishing Your Documents as Web Pages	304	(4)
Previewing your document in a browser	305	(1)
Stuff you can do in WordPerfect that you can't do on a Web page	306	(1)
Stuff that WordPerfect and Web pages do differently	306	(2)
Publishing in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format	308	(3)
Part V: The Part of Tens	311	(18)
Chapter 18: Ten (Or So) Ways to Get WordPerfect to Do It Your Way	313	(12)
Reading and Recording Information about Your Documents	314	(1)
Setting Your Favorite Font	314	(1)
Setting Your Settings	315	(1)
Choosing Which Hidden Symbols Appear, and Other Display Settings	316	(1)
Telling WordPerfect about Folders and Backups	317	(2)
Getting back your timed backups	318	(1)
Automatically Saving Your Documents in Microsoft Word Format	319	(1)
Some Cool Environment Settings	320	(1)
Picking up where you left off	320	(1)
Selecting less than an entire word	321	(1)
Customizing Toolbars and Property Bars	321	(1)
Going Retro: WordPerfect Classic Mode	322	(3)
Chapter 19: Ten Really Good Suggestions	325	(4)
Don't Be Impulsive: Tell, Then Act	325	(1)
Do Not Use Extra Spaces or Tabs	326	(1)
Do Not Keep Pressing Enter to Begin a New Page	326	(1)
Do Not Number Your Pages Manually	327	(1)
Save Early and Often	327	(1)
Save Periodic Versions of Your Document	327	(1)
Create a Halfway House for Semi-Abandoned Text	327	(1)
Make Frequent Timed Backups	328	(1)
Backing Out of the Edit -> Find and Replace Command	328	(1)
Back Up Your Work	328	(1)
Index	329