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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Setting up Word to work your way
Controlling the Office Assistant
Disabling personalized menus
Choosing save options and default format
Displaying paragraph marks, tabs, text boundaries, and other items
Choosing editing options
Choosing printing options
Choosing general 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
Sharing documents with people using a different version of Word
Installing more than one version of Word on the same computer
Advanced tips
Chapter 2 Editing and reviewing documents
Checking spelling and grammar
Ignore some text while checking spelling and grammar
Recheck spelling in a document
Check index entries and other hidden text
Finding and replacing text and formatting
Replace manual 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
Use balloons or not
Inserting comments and questions
Accepting or rejecting editorial changes and comments
Incorporate reviewers’ insertions and deletions
Incorporate reviewers’ suggestions made with comments
Review changes by using the toolbar
Changing the font and text size in balloons and the Reviewing pane
Printing
Exchanging files with other versions of Word: some incompatibilities
Undoing edits
Selecting a vertical block of text
Selecting items that are not next to each other: new in Word 2002
Changing document properties
Counting the number of words
Automating your editing
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, text boxes, and frames for page layout
Use a table for page layout
Use text boxes for page layout
Use frames for page layout
Some tips for taming tables
Insert a borderless table
Use AutoText for consistent table formats
Repeat a table heading when the table is on more than one page
Insert tabs, rows, and columns, and select text in a table
Control page breaks within tables
Rotate text in a table cell
Break up rows or cells into smaller units
Restore the old Cell Height and Width dialog
Change tabbed text into a table
Avoid using some features
Putting portrait headers on landscape pages
Keeping a caption with a table or figure
Define the figure or caption style to include keep with next
Choose keep with next for individual captions
Editing facing pages
Controlling tabs
Chapter 4 Using templates and styles effectively
Working with templates and add-ins
Determine what templates are attached to a document
Find where your custom templates are stored
Store new custom templates
Create a new template
Change the information in an existing template
Copy information between templates
Apply a different template
Share templates with others in your workgroup
Working with character, paragraph, table, and list styles
Apply a style to text
Print a style sheet
Change a style definition
Define a new style Assign styles to keyboard shortcuts
Remove unwanted and unused styles from a document
Remove unwanted character styles from selected text
Find out what formatting is applied to text
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
Fixing or avoiding list numbering problems
Using SEQ fields to solve 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
Use a SEQ field when you don’t want the number to be visible
Including the chapter number in other number sequences
Using ListNum to solve numbering problems
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
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
Modify what the table of contents displays
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
Creating graphics in another program
Embedding or linking graphics
Working with screen captures
Controlling Word’s drawing objects with the drawing canvas
Wrapping text around graphics
Editing graphics
Cropping graphics
Creating diagrams
Using the drawing grid
Working with floating or inline graphics
Using watermarks
Chapter 8 Miscellaneous tips and tricks
Customizing toolbars and menus
Add a toolbar button for a different view of the style list
Using the Work menu
Using the Office XP clipboard
Working with document links
Navigating through a document
Creating equations
Inserting symbols and international characters
Using smart tags-or not
Removing personal and hidden information from documents
Automating your work with macros
Backing up your AutoCorrect entries
Appendix A For more information
Appendix B Glossary
Index
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Last updated 31 July 2004