Mircosoft Word 2010 for dummies

Dan Gookin gets you up to speed so you can get down to work with all the new features of Word 2010! Bestselling and quintessential For Dummies author Dan Gookin employs his usual fun and friendly candor while walking you through the spectrum of new features of Word 2010. Completely in tune with the needs of the beginning Word user, Gookin shows you how to use Word quickly and efficiently so that you can spend more time working on your projects and less time trying to figure out how to make Word perform the tasks you need it to do. This newest edition of Word For Dummies explains how to navigate the user interface and take advantages of file formats, and skips the unnecessary jargon. Unparalleled author Dan Gookin applies his beloved For Dummies writing style to introduce you to all the features and functions of Word 2010 Escorts you through the capabilities of Word 2010 without weighing you down with unnecessary technical jargon Deciphers the user interface and shows you how to take advantage of the file formats The word on the street is that Word 2010 For Dummies is a must-read! Introduction About this book How to use this book Foolish assumptions How this book is organized Part 1: Your introduction to Word Part 2: Your basic Word Part 3: Formatting Part 4: Spruce up a dull document Part 5: Even more Word Part 6: Part of tens What's not here Icons used in this book Where to go from here Part 1: Your Introduction to Word Chapter 1: Hello, Word! Getting Word started Good, yet unimaginative, way to start Word Better way to start Word Best way to start Word Start Word by opening a document Looking at Word Around the Word window Blank place where you write Mouse pointer in Word Ending your Word processing day Quit Word Quit what you're doing without quitting Word Set Word aside Chapter 2: Typing Chapter Behold the PC keyboard! Old-hunt-and-peck Follow the blinking cursor When to whack the spacebar Backup and erase keys When to press that enter key Stuff that happens while you type Left end of the status bar Between the pages Spots and clutter in your text Strange underlines and colored text Part 2: Your Basic Word Chapter 3: To And Fro In A Document Scroll through a document Using the vertical scroll bar Using the horizontal scroll bar Scrolling your document with the mouse Move the insertion pointer Commanding the insertion pointer with the mouse Moving in small increments (basic arrow keys) Moving from beginning to end Browse buttons Get back to where you once edited Go to wherever with the go to command Chapter 4: Text Editing Remove text you don't want Deleting single characters Deleting a word Deleting more than a word Split and join paragraphs Making two paragraphs from one Making one paragraph from two Soft and hard returns Undo mistakes with undo haste Redo, the Undo-Undo command Redo, the repeat typing command Chapter 5: Search For This, Replace It With That Test happily found Using the Find command Using the traditional Find command Finding more than text finding stuff you can't type in Finding formatting Replace found text and stuff Replacing it all at once Finding and replacing formatting Chapter 6: Blocks O' Text Understanding blocks Selecting blocks of text Using the keyboard to select text Marking a block with the mouse Using the F8 to mark a block Blocking the whole dang-doodle document Deselecting a block Manipulating blocks of text Copying a block Moving a block Setting the pasted text format Copying or moving a block with the mouse Collecting and pasting Looking at the clipboard pane Pasting from the clipboard pane Cleansing the clipboard pane Chapter 7: Spell It Write Hue right grate Check your spelling Dealing with on-the-fly spell checking Dealing with words incorrectly flagged as being misspelled Undoing the ignore all command Removing words from the custom dictionary AutoCorrect your common typos Understanding AutoCorrect Creating your own AutoCorrect entries Undoing an AutoCorrect correction Grammar be good All-at-once document proofing Control Word's proofing options Changing spell-check and grammar settings Perusing AutoCorrect options Chapter 8: Documents And Such What is a file? New document Save your stuff! Saving a document the first time Dealing with document-save errors Saving or updating a document Forgetting to save before you quit Open a document Using the open command Opening a document icon Accessing recently opened files Opening more than one document at a time Opening one document inside another Close a document Recover a draft Chapter 9: Publish Your Document Your document on paper Preparing the printer Previewing a document Printing the whole document Printing a specific page Printing a range of pages Printing a block Printing more than one copy of something Choosing another printer Canceling a print job Electronic publishing Preparing a document for sharing Sending a Word document by e-mail Saving a Word document in a sharable format Saving a Word document as a PDF Part 3: Formatting Chapter 10: Character Formatting How to format characters Basic character formatting Changing the font Applying character formats Using less-common character attributes Text transcending teeny to titanic Understanding points Setting the text size Nudging text size More colorful characters Text formatting with the font dialog box Changing text case Removing character formatting Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting How to format a paragraph Where the paragraph formatting commands lurk Paragraph justification and alignment Line up on the left! Everyone center! Line up on the right! Line up on both sides! Make room before, after, or inside paragraphs Setting the line spacing Setting specific line spacing options Making space between paragraphs Paragraph indentation Indenting the first line of a paragraph Making a hanging indent (an outdent) Indenting a whole paragraph Who died and made this thing ruler? Chapter 12: Tab Formatting Once upon a tab Standard left tab stop Creating a two-tab paragraph thing Center tab stop Right tab stop Making a right-stop, left-stop list Building a two-column right stop list Decimal tab Bar tab Tabs dialog box Setting a tab in the tabs dialog box Setting leader tabs Tab stop, be gone! Chapter 13: Page Formatting Describe that page Setting page size Setting orientation (landscape or portrait) Configuring the page margins Using the Page Setup dialog box Page numbering Adding an automatic page number Starting off with a different page number Numbering with roman numerals Removing page numbers New pages from nowhere Starting on a new page Inserting a whole, blank page Page froufrou Coloring pages Adding a watermark Chapter 14: Document Formatting Oft misunderstood yet useful concept of sections Understanding sections Creating a section Using a section Deleting a section break Add a cover page (sneaky and quick) Headers and footers Adding a header or footer Editing a header or footer Making odd and even headers or footers Removing the header and footer from the first page Working with headers and footers in document sections Removing a header or footer Chapter 15: Word Formatting Styles Big style overview Understanding style types Finding the styles in Word Using a style Understanding heading styles Determining which style you're using Switching to another style set Unapplying a style Make your own styles Creating a style based on text you've already formatted Creating a style from scratch Modifying a style Giving your style a shortcut key Customizing the quick style gallery Deleting a style Chapter 16: Fun With Themes And Template Formatting Theme of things Applying a document theme Modifying or creating a theme Create instant documents by using templates Starting a new document by using a template Creating a template based on a document you already have Making a new template from scratch Modifying a template Attaching a template to a document Borrowing an existing document as a template Chapter 17: Sundry Formatting Weird and fun text attributes Automatic formatting Enjoying automagical text Paragraph formatting tricks Undoing an AutoFormat Disabling the @#$%&! AutoFormat Center a page, top to bottom Steal this format! Part 4: Spruce Up A Dull Document Chapter 18: Lines And Colors Basics of lines and colors Using the border command button Summoning the borders and shading dialog box Using the shading command button Lines, borders, and boxes Putting a line above a heading Boxing text or paragraphs Boxing a title Making rules Drawing a fat, thick line Putting a border around a page of text Removing borders Background colors and shading Chapter 19: Able Tables Suddenly there's a table in your document Working with tables in word Creating an instant table Making a table "this" big Drawing a table Test in tables Putting text into a table Selecting text in a table Converting text into a table Turning a table back into plain text Table formatting Manipulating a table with the mouse Adjusting the table Designing a table Deleting a table Chapter 20: Columns Of Text All about columns Making more than three columns Mixing column formats Adjusting the columns in the columns dialog box End of the column Giving up and going back to one column Ending multiple columns in the middle of a document Using a column break Chapter 21: Lots Of Lists Lists with bullets and numbers Making a bulleted list Numbering a list Creating a multilevel numbered list Numbering lines on a page Lists of document contents Creating a table of contents Building an index Footnotes and endnotes Chapter 22: Here Come The Graphics Graphical goobers in your text Plopping down a picture Inserting clip art Slapping down a shape Saving time with SmartArt Choosing a chart Adding some WordArt Taking a screenshot Adding a caption Deleting an image or artwork Images in and around your text Wrapping text around an image Moving an image hither and thither Image editing Resizing an image Cropping an image Rotating an image Changing an image's appearance Arranging multiple images Chapter 23: Even More Things To Insert In Your Document Characters fun and funky Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens Typing characters such as U,C, and N Inserting special characters and symbols Spice up you document with a text box Vast depth of fields Placing a field in a document Playing with fields Date and time Sticking the current date or time into a document Typing date-and time keyboard shortcuts Using the PrintDate field Part 5: Even More Word Chapter 24: Multiple Documents, Windows, And File Formats Multiple document mania Opening several documents at once Switching between multiple documents Viewing more than one document at a time Comparing two documents side by side Viewing the same document in multiple windows Using the old split-screen trick Many, many document types Understanding document formats Opening a non-word document Saving a document in another file format Converting an older Word document Chapter 25: Word For Writers Organize your thoughts Entering outline view Putting topics in the outline Demoting a topic (creating subtopics) Promoting a topic Adding a text topic Rearranging topics Expanding and contracting topics Printing an outline Large document organization Setting up for a large document Creating a master document Splitting a document Improve you Word power Finding the best word power Finding the best word Using the research task pane Dan's writing tips Writing for writers Making every word count Avoiding writer's block Chapter 26: Let's Work This Out Comments on your text Adding a comment Hiding comments Reviewing comments Printing comments (or not) Deleting comments Whip out the yellow highlighter Look what they've done to my text, Ma Comparing two versions of the same document Tracking changes as you make them Reviewing changes Chapter 27: Mail Merge Mania About mail merge Understanding word's mail merge terminology Reviewing the mail merge process Main document Creating a mail merge letter Creating mail merge e-mail messages Creating mail merge envelopes Creating a mail merge directory Recipient list Creating a recipient list Using an already created recipient list Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook Editing a recipient list Fold in the fields Mail merge Ho! Previewing the merged documents Merging to a new set of documents Merging to the printer Merging to e-mail Chapter 28: Labels Of Love Label thing Here's a sheet of identical labels Print that address list Label trick with graphics Chapter 29: More Custom Word My, what big test you have! Working the status bar zoom control Using the Zoom commands Better status bar Word's changing interface Finding the Quick Access toolbar Customizing the Quick Access toolbar Adding stuff to the ribbon Part 6: Part Of Tens Chapter 30: Ten Commandments Of Word Thou shalt remember to save thy work Thou shalt not use more than one space Thou shalt not press enter at the end of each line Thou shalt not neglect thy keyboard Thou shalt not manually number thy pages Thou shalt not use the enter key to start a new page Thou shalt not forget thy undo command Honor thy printer Thou shalt have multiple document windows before thee Neglecteth not windows Chapter 31: Ten Cool Tricks Automatic save with AutoRecover Keyboard power! Build your own fractions Electronic bookmarks Lock your document Drop cap Map you document Add an envelope to your letter Sort your text Text that doesn't print Chapter 32: Ten Bizarre Things Equations Math Make a macro Developer tab Hyphenation Document properties Cross-references Smart tags Click-and-type Word and the internet Chapter 33: Ten Avuncular Suggestions Keep printer paper, toner, and supplies handy Get some references Keep your computer files organized Add the junk later Back up your work Use AutoCorrect Use those keyboard shortcuts Try new things Let Word do the work Don't take it all too seriously Index.

Here's the last word on Word, from the master of plain-English explanations!

It's a whole new Word, so jump right into this book and learn how to make the most of it! Here's what you need to know, from firing up Word, understanding how to use the spell checker, and turning off features that drive you crazy to formatting documents, using templates, adding images, and saving your stuff. You can even find special tips for the writer in you.

• New to Word? — here's the stuff most books assume you already know, such as how to use the keyboard, mouse, and gizmos in the Word window

• Watch your words — clean up errors, replace sections of text, use copy-and-paste, and work with text blocks

• The grammar cop — make the most of the grammar and spell checkers

• Make friends with formats — format characters, paragraphs, and pages to make your documents reader-friendly

• Stylin' — create styles to give your documents character

• The fancy stuff — work with borders, lines, and boxes; add tables; and build an index

• Multitasking — manage multiple documents, convert documents from different versions of Word, or save documents in different file formats

• Publish or perish — print your documents or prepare them for sharing electronically

Open the book and find:

• What all the keys on the keyboard are for

• How to use the Ribbon

• Things to know about saving and naming files

• How to recover a document you thought was lost

• Tools for collaborating with others

• Tips for taming mail merge

• A whole chapter on Word's tools for writers

• The ten commandments of Word

Learn to:

• Work with all the newest Microsoft Word features

• Create and edit documents quickly and easily

• Share your work and collaborate with others

• Use mail merge, create labels, and send e-mails in Word

A guide to using Microsoft Word 2010 that covers typing, editing, finding and replacing text, checking spelling, saving and publishing documents, formatting, tables, graphics, file formats, and other related topics. Overview: Dan Gookin gets you up to speed so you can get down to work with all the new features of Word 2010! Bestselling and quintessential For Dummies author Dan Gookin employs his usual fun and friendly candor while walking you through the spectrum of new features of Word 2010. Completely in tune with the needs of the beginning Word user, Gookin shows you how to use Word quickly and efficiently so that you can spend more time working on your projects and less time trying to figure out how to make Word perform the tasks you need it to do. This newest edition of Word For Dummies explains how to navigate the user interface and take advantages of file formats, and skips the unnecessary jargon. Unparalleled author Dan Gookin applies his beloved For Dummies writing style to introduce you to all the features and functions of Word 2010; Escorts you through the capabilities of Word 2010 without weighing you down with unnecessary technical jargon; Deciphers the user interface and shows you how to take advantage of the file formats. An introduction to the latest version of Microsoft's word processing software reviews Word 2010 fundamentals while demonstrating updated features and explaining how to integrate documents with other Microsoft Office applications, customize the program, and post documents to the Web.