by Jean Hollis Weber
120 pages
ISBN 0-9578419-3-0
Published March 6, 2002
Other editions:
Taming Microsoft Word (for v. 6, 95, 97)
Taming Microsoft Word 2002
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Contents of Taming Microsoft Word 2000
Chapter 1 Setting up Word to work your way
Controlling the Office Assistant
Disabling personalized menus
Turning off fast save and turning on backup copies
Displaying paragraph marks, tabs, text boundaries, and other items
Setting up editing and printing options
Preparing for spelling and grammar checking
Choose the spelling and grammar options
Set the spelling checker to the correct version of English
Create and use a custom dictionary
Create and use an exclude dictionary
Ensuring your user information is correct
Controlling Word’s AutoCorrect functions
Adding a toolbar button for an easier-to-use style list
Sharing documents with people using a different version of Word
Installing more than one version of Word on the same computer
Chapter 2 Editing and reviewing documents
Checking spelling and grammar
Ignore some text while checking spelling and grammar
Recheck a document
Finding and replacing text and formatting
Replace specific formatting
Find and replace paragraph marks, page breaks, and other items
Find items such as bookmarks or comments
Plan a multiple-pass find and replace
Use wildcards
Marking and tracking changes
Prepare a document for editing
Edit (review) the document
Inserting comments and questions
Changing document properties
Accepting or rejecting editorial changes and comments
Merge documents
Incorporate reviewers’ insertions and deletions
Review changes by using the toolbar
Incorporate reviewers’ suggestions made with comments
Remove comments from a file
Undoing edits
Selecting a vertical block of text
Chapter 3 Controlling page layout
Changing page layouts
Create a new section
Change page margins
Editing headers and footers
Changing page numbers between sections of a document
Using tables for page layout as well as data
Use a table for page layout
Use AutoText for consistent table formats
Change tabbed text into a table
Putting portrait headers on landscape pages
Chapter 4 Using templates and styles effectively
Understanding template hierarchies
Determining what templates are attached to a document
Changing the information in a template
Copying information between templates
Applying a different template
Sharing templates with others in your workgroup
Changing a paragraph or character style
Defining a new paragraph or character style
Speeding up style selection
Add styles to the shortcut menu
Assign styles to keyboard shortcuts
Assign styles to toolbar buttons
Removing unwanted and unused styles from a document
Removing unwanted character styles from selected text
Printing a style sheet
Chapter 5 Getting the most from fields
Using document properties to hold information that changes
Define a custom document property
Insert a document property field
Using AutoText fields to hold information that changes
Create a new AutoText entry
Insert an AutoText entry into an AutoText field
Edit an AutoText entry
Print AutoText entries
Using SEQ fields to solve numbering problems
Fixing or avoiding list numbering problems
Define AutoCorrect entries to use in SEQ fields for list numbering
Define a new style for numbered lists
Use a tab to line up double- and single-digit numbers in lists
Use the AutoCorrect fields to number a list
Numbering chapters and appendixes separately
Set up the chapter numbering sequence
Set the first chapter number in each file
Set up the appendix numbering sequence
Set the first appendix number in each file
Including the chapter number in other number sequences
Using fields in headers and footers
Updating fields in headers and footers
Toggling the display of fields
Locking and unlocking fields
Converting fields into text
Chapter 6 Working with large or complex documents
Strategies for working with large or complex documents
Using section breaks to control complex documents
Using automatic cross-references
Using bookmarks for cross referencing
Prepare for cross-referencing to a page number in another file
Cross referencing to material in another file
Method 1. Insert includetext fields
Method 2. Insert and edit hyperlink fields
Method 3. Use the TechTav or TechTav1 macro suite to do this work more easily
Creating captions for figures and tables
Start caption numbering at 2 or more
Numbering chapters and appendixes separately
Set up appendix numbering
Creating a table of contents
Define the format and styles to be included
Generate the table of contents
Editing a table of contents
Regenerate the corrected table of contents
Creating an index
Insert the index entries
Define the format of the index
Generate the index
Include index headings (group separators) in a custom index
Editing an index
Edit an index entry
Regenerate and check the corrected index
Creating a table of contents and an index from multiple files
Inserting or linking to other files
Chapter 7 Working with graphics
Creating graphics to use with Word
Working with screen captures
Embedding or linking graphics
Keeping the caption with the picture
Define the figure or caption style to include keep with next
Choose keep with next for individual captions
Editing graphics
Cropping graphics
Annotating graphics
Keeping callouts with pictures
Changing autoshape defaults
Controlling Word drawing objects
Wrapping text around graphics
Extracting embedded graphics from a Word file
Chapter 8 Creating Web pages and PDF documents from Word
Saving Word files as Web pages (HTML)
Editing HTML files in Word
Hints for getting the best results from Adobe Acrobat
Setting up Acrobat 4
Using PDF Maker 4.0
Printing to a PostScript file and distilling
Appendix A For more information
Appendix B Glossary
Index
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Last updated 25 February 2007