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Get Going with Word 2000

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Table of Contents: Get Going with Word 2000

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  • Word Is More Than a Better Typewriter

            Getting started should be … easy!

            About the Author

            Customer Service Writ Large!

  • Starting Up Word: On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!

            Correct Use of the Mouse

            Starting Word

            Creating a Shortcut

  • Fun With Charlie Paperclip: The Cunning Office Assistant

            Tips and Tricks from the “Assistant“

            Asking a Question

            Choosing Other Assistants 8

  • Making Word Comfortable: Sensible Basic Settings

            Turning off Automated Menus

            The Four Faces of Word

            Useful: Nonprinting Characters

            The Text Boundaries

            Using the Rulers

  • An Overview of Word

  • Writing Right Away: Important Buttons Explained in Brief

            Typing Upper-Case Letters

            Rules for Entering Text

            Correcting Mistakes

            Undoing Steps

  • Safety First: Saving Documents

            Saving Data for the First Time

            Saving Regularly

            Saving to Another Folder

            Creating a New Folder

            Save or Save As?

            Saving a File onto a Diskette

  • Closing a File and Quitting Word

            A New, Empty Document

            Closing a Document

            Closing with a Button

            Closing Word

  • Opening Your Documents

            The Conventional Method

            Opening Directly From a Folder

            Word: Quick Methods

            Windows: Document Menu

  • Comfortable Navigation: Moving Around in Word

            Moving with the Mouse

            Clicking Anywhere

            Click and Type: The Catch

            With the Keyboard: Cursor Keys

            Moving Word by Word

            Beginning and End of the Line

            Beginning and End of the Text

            Bigger Steps

            Jumping to a Particular Page

            Outline Mode

  • The View on the Screen: Changing the Zoom Factor

            Setting the Zoom Factor

            More Flexible: Your Own Zoom Factor

            Multiple Pages at a Time

  • Viewing a Document with Print Preview

            Calling up Print Preview

            Closing Print Preview

            Whole Screen

  • First Select – Then Act

            Selecting a Word

            Selecting a Group of Words

            Selecting Longer Sentences

            Selecting Line by Line

            Selecting Precisely

            Selecting with the Keyboard

            Selecting Everything

  • Deleting and Adding Text

            Two Keys for Deleting

            Removing Larger Blocks of Text

            Adding Text

            Overtype Mode

  • Changing the Font and Font Size

            Changing the Font

            Changing the Font Size

            Changing the Whole Text

            Changing the Default Font

  • Character Formatting: Bold, Italic, and Underline

            Bold, Italic, and Underline

            Different Colours

            The Complete Selection

            Animated Text

  • Right, Left, or in the Middle? Please Arrange!

            Jagged Lines (Align Left)

            Justify

            Align Right

            Centre

  • Bulleting, Numbering, and Line Spacing

            Using Bullets

            Creating a Numbered List

            Automatic Numbering!

            Individual Configurations

            Setting Line Spacing

  • Borders and Shading

            Placing a Border around Characters

            Placing a Border around a Paragraph

            The Secrets of Paragraph Formats

            Using the Borders and Shading Dialog Box

  • Indenting on the Left and Right

            Indenting with the Buttons

            Using the Ruler to Indent

            Hanging Indents

            Indenting the First Line

  • Setting the Margins and Paper Size

            Setting the Margins

            Changing the Paper Size

  • Creating Tables with Tab Stops

            Defining Tab Stops

            Deleting Tab Stops

            Typing Tables

  • Creating Tables with Word‘s Practical Table Functions

            Creating a Table

            Filling the Table in

            Deleting Rows and Columns

            Adding Rows and Columns

            Formatting Tables

  • Using the Proofing Tools Sensibly

            Proofing While you Type

            No Spell Checking

            Automatic Error Correction

            Spell Checking with Dialog Box

            Proofing Grammar

  • The Clipboard: Cutting, Copying, and Pasting

            Cutting and Pasting

            Copying instead of Cutting

            Quicker with Keyboard Tricks

            The New Office Clipboard

            Erasing the Office Clipboard

            The “Mouse-Dragging”Method

  • Adding ClipArt Graphics to Documents

            Adding ClipArt Graphics

            Moving Graphics

            Scaling Graphics

            Text Flow around Graphics

  • Word for Pros: Style Sheets as Composition Aids

            Styles for Headings

            Creating Your Own Paragraph Styles

  • Document Templates as Practical Stencils

            Creating Document Templates

            Calling up a Template

  • Never Type too Much Again: Textual Building Blocks

            Defining AutoText

            Applying Textual Building Blocks

            Graphics as AutoText

  • Headers, Footers, and Page Numbers

            Adding Headers and Footers

            Adding Page Numbers

  • Printing your Documents

            Printing the Whole Document

            The Print Dialog Box

            Genius: Compressed Printing

  • Word Tips and Tricks

            Beginning on a New Page

            Searching for Text

            Text Effects with WordArt

    Index: Align Left, 31 Align Right, 31 Animated Text, 30 AutoText, 50 Bold, 29 Borders and Shading, 35 Bulleting, individual, 33 Bullets, 32 Capital letters, 12 Centered, 31 Changing the Default Font, 28 ClipArt Graphics Adding, 46 Clipboard in Windows, 44 Colors, 29 Copying, 44 Correcting Mistakes, 12 Create Shortcut, 7 Cursor Keys, 20 Customizing Word, 9 Cutting, 44 Default settings, 9 Deleting Text, 26 Deleting Rows and Columns, 41 Drag & Drop, 45 Entering Text, 12 Find, 53 Font, 27 Font size, 27 Footers, 51 Formatting Tables, 41 Hanging Indents, 37 Headers, 51 Help Office-Assistent, 8 Horizontal ruler, 11 Indenting, 36 Indenting the First Line, 37 Inserting Text, 26 Italic, 29 Justified, 31 Line Spacing, 33 Margins, 38 Menu bar, 11 Move about in Word, 19 Movement keyboard, 20 Moving Graphics, 47 Navigation, 19 Nonprinting characters, 9 Normal View, 9 Numbering, 32 Office Clipboard, 45 Office-Assistent, 8 Opening Documents, 18 Opening Your Documents, 17 Outline Mode, 21 Overtype Mode, 26 Page Break, 53 Page Layout, 9 Page Numbers, 51 Paper Size, 38 Paragraph Alignment, 31 Pasting, 44 Printing, 52 Proofing Grammar, 43 Proofing Tools, 42 Replace, 53 Rulers, 10 Save to another folder, 14 Saving, 13 Selecting, 24, 25 Starting Word, 7 Status and Information bar, 11 Style Sheets, 48 Tab, 39 Tables with Tab Stops, 39 Templates, 49 Text Boundaries, 10 Text Effects, 53 Text Flow around Graphics, 47 Title bar, 11 Toolbars, 11 Underline, 29 Undo, 12 Vertical Scrollbar, 11 Whole Screen, 23 Window controls, 11 WordArt, 53 Zoom, 22