Word 2016 For dummies
(Book)

Introduction: -- About this book -- How to use this book -- Foolish assumptions -- What's not here -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Your Introduction To Word: -- Hello, Word!: -- Your Word Day: -- Starting Word the traditional way -- Starting Word the best way -- Opening a document to start Word -- Behold The Word Program: -- Working the Word Start screen -- Examining Word's main screen -- Working the Ribbon -- Showing and hiding the Ribbon -- Changing the document view -- Making text larger or smaller -- End Your Word-Processing Day: -- Quitting Word -- Closing a document without quitting Word -- Setting Word aside -- Typing Chapter: -- Input Devices Galore: -- Using the PC keyboard -- Understanding the mouse pointer -- Keyboard Dos And Don'ts: -- Following the insertion pointer --Whacking the spacebar -- Backing up and erasing -- Pressing the Enter key -- Stuff That Happens While You Type: -- Watching the status bar -- Observing page breaks -- Working collapsible headers -- Dealing with spots and clutter in the text -- Understanding colorful underlines -- Part 2: Your Basic Word: -- To And Fro In A Document: -- Document Scrolling: -- Working the vertical scroll bar -- Using the horizontal scroll bar -- Scrolling with the mouse wheel -- Move The Insertion Pointer: -- Commanding the insertion pointer -- Moving in small increments -- Moving from beginning to end -- Go back to where you once edited -- Go to wherever with the Go To Command -- 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: -- Undoing the Undo command with redo -- Using the Repeat command -- Search For This, Replace It With That: -- Text Happily Found: -- Finding a tidbit o' text -- Scouring your document with Advanced Find -- Finding stuff you can't type -- Replace Found Text: -- Replacing one thing with another -- Replacing it all at once -- Finding and replacing formatting -- Blocks O' Text: -- Meet Mr Block -- Mark A Block Of Text: -- Using the keyboard to select text -- Marking a block with the mouse -- Using the F8 key to mark a block -- Blocking the whole dang-doodle document -- Deselecting a block -- Manipulate The Block Of Text: -- Copying a block -- Moving a block -- Setting the pasted text format -- Copying or moving a block with the mouse -- Viewing the clipboard -- Spell It Write: -- Check Your Spelling: -- Fixing a misspelled word -- Dealing with incorrectly flagged words -- AutoCorrect In Action: -- Undoing an AutoCorrect correction -- Adjusting AutoCorrect settings -- Grammar be good -- All-at-once document proofing -- Spell Check And Grammar Settings: -- Undoing the ignore all command -- Customizing the custom dictionary -- Disabling automatic spell check -- Curtailing grammar checking -- Documents New, Saved, Opened, And Closed: -- Some terms to get out of the way -- Behold! A 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 one document inside another -- Close a document -- Recover a draft -- Publish Your Document: -- Your Document On Paper: -- Previewing before printing -- Printing the whole document -- Printing a specific page -- Printing a range of pages -- Printing on both sides of the page -- Printing odd and even pages -- Printing a block -- Printing more than one copy of something -- Choosing another printer -- Canceling a print job -- Electronically Publishing Your Document: -- Preparing a document for sharing -- Sending a Word document via email -- Making a PDF -- Exporting your document -- Part 3: Fun With Formatting: -- Character Formatting: -- Text-formatting techniques -- Basic Text Formats: -- Choosing a font -- Applying character formats -- Text Transcending Teensy To Titanic: -- Setting the text size -- Nudging text size -- More Colorful Text: -- Coloring the text -- Shading the background -- Change text case -- Clear character formatting -- Behold the font Dialog Box -- Paragraph Formatting: -- Paragraph-Formatting Rules And Regulations: -- Formatting a paragraph -- Locating the paragraph-formatting commands -- 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 -- Making space between paragraphs -- Paragraph Indentation Madness: -- Indenting the first line of a paragraph -- Making a hanging indent (an out-dent) -- Indenting a whole paragraph -- Using the ruler to adjust indents -- Tab Formatting: -- Once Upon A Tab: -- Seeing tab characters -- Seeing tab stops -- Using the ruler to set tab stops -- Using the tabs dialog box to set tabs -- Standard Left Tab Stop: -- Creating a basic tabbed list -- 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 -- Fearless leader tabs -- Tab stop, be gone! -- Page Formatting: -- Describe That Page: -- Setting page size -- Changing orientation (landscape or portrait) -- Setting the page margins -- Using the Page Setup dialog box -- Page Numbering: -- Adding an automatic page number -- Starting with a different page number -- Numbering with roman numerals -- Removing page numbers -- New Pages From Nowhere: -- Starting text on a new page -- Inserting a blank page -- Page Background Froufrou: -- Coloring pages -- Printing colored pages -- Adding a watermark -- More Page Formatting: -- Slice Your Document Into Sections: -- Understanding sections -- Creating a section -- Using sections -- Deleting a section break -- That First Page: -- Adding a cover page -- Inserting a cover page manually -- Headers And Footers: -- Using a preset header or footer -- Creating a custom header or footer -- Working with multiple headers and footers -- Removing a header or a footer -- Style Formatting: -- Big Style Overview: -- Finding the styles -- Using a style -- Discovering the current style -- Removing style formatting -- Make Your Own Styles: -- Creating a style -- Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box -- Modifying a style -- Assigning a shortcut key to your style -- Deleting a style -- Style Tips And Tricks: -- Updating the normal style -- Creating heading styles -- Customizing the Style Gallery -- Template And Themes Formatting: -- Instant Documents With Templates: -- Starting a new document by using a template -- Changing a document's associated template -- Templates Of Your Own: -- Creating a template based on a document you already have -- Making a new template from scratch -- Modifying a template -- Theme Of Things: -- Applying a document theme -- Modifying or creating a theme -- Sundry Formatting: -- Weird and fun text effects -- Steal this format! -- Automatic Formatting: -- Enjoying auto-magical text -- Formatting tricks for paragraphs -- Undoing an AutoFormat -- Center a page, top to bottom --

Part 4: Spruce Up A Dull Document:

Borders And Lines:

Basics Of Borders:

Putting borders around a paragraph

Drawing a thick line between paragraphs

Boxing multiple paragraphs

Removing borders

Borders And Shading Dialog Box:

Creating a fancy title

Boxing text

Applying a page border

Able Tables:

Put A Table In Your Document:

Working with tables in Word

Creating a table

Un-creating a table

Deleting a table

Text In Tables:

Typing text in a table

Selecting in a table

Aligning text in a cell

Table Modification:

Adding or removing rows or columns

Adjusting row and column size

Merging cells

Splitting cells

Making the table pretty

Adding a table caption

Columns Of Text:

All About Columns:

Making two-column text

Building a trifold brochure

Giving up on columns

Column Termination

Changing column formats

Placing a column break

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

Document Content Lists:

Creating a table of contents

Building an index

Adding a list of figures

Footnotes and endnotes

Here Come The Graphics:

Graphical Goobers In Your Text:

Copying and pasting an image

Plopping down a picture

Stealing images from the Internet

Slapping down a shape

Sticking things into a shape

Using WordArt

Adding a caption

Image Layout:

Wrapping text around an image

Floating an image

Keeping an image with text

Image Editing:

Resizing an image

Cropping an image

Rotating an image

Changing an image's appearance

Image Arrangement:

Moving an image hither and thither

Aligning graphics

Shuffling images front or back

Grouping images

Insert Tab Insanity:

Characters Foreign And Funky:

Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens

Typing character such-

Inserting special characters and symbols

Spice up your document with a Text Box

Fun With Fields:

Understanding fields

Adding some useful fields

Updating a field

Changing a field

Deleting fields

Date And Time:

Adding the current date or time

Using the PrintDate field

Part 5: Rest Of Word:

Multiple Documents, Windows, And File Formats:

Multiple Document Mania:

Arranging open document windows

Comparing two documents side by side

Viewing one document in multiple windows

Using the old split-screen trick

Many, Many Document Types:

Understanding document formats

Opening a non-Word document

Updating an older Word document

Word For Writers:

Organize Your Thoughts:

Entering Outline view

Typing topics in the outline

Rearranging topics

Demoting and promoting topics

Expanding and collapsing topics

Adding a text topic

Printing an outline

Large Docuements:

Creating a master document

Splitting a document

Dan's Writing Tips:

Choosing the best word

Counting every word

Writing for writers

Let's Work This Out:

Comments On Your Text:

Adding a comment

Displaying or hiding comments

Reviewing comments one at a time

Printing comments (or not)

Deleting comments

Yellow highlighter

Look What They've Done To My Text, Ma:

Comparing two versions of a document

Tracking changes as they're made

Reviewing changes

Collaborate On The Internet:

Sharing a document

Checking updates

Mail Merge Mania:

About Mail Merge:

Understanding Word's mail merge jargon

Reviewing the mail merge process

Using the Mail Merge Wizard

Main Document:

Creating a mail merge form letter

Creating mail merge email messages

Creating mail merge envelopes

Recipient List:

Building a new recipient list

Using an already created recipient list

Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook

Editing a recipient list

Fold in the fields

Preview the merged documents

Mail Merge Ho!:

Merging to a new set of documents

Merging to the printer

Merging to email

Labels And Envelopes:

Labels Everywhere:

Printing sheets of identical labels

Printing an address list

Instant envelope

More Custom Word:

Better Status Bar

Quick Access Toolbar:

Adding buttons to the Quick Access toolbar

Editing the Quick Access toolbar

Removing items from the quick Access toolbar

Customize the Ribbon

Part 6: Part Of Tens:

Ten Commandments Of Word:

Thou shalt remember to save thy work

Thou shalt not use spaces unnecessarily

Thou shalt not abuse the enter key

Thou shalt not neglect keyboard shortcuts

Thou shalt not manually number thy pages

Thou shalt not force a new page

Thou shalt not forget thy Undo Command

Honor thy printer

Thou shalt have multiple document Windows before thee

Neglecteth not Windows

Ten Cool Tricks:

Automatic save with AutoRecover

Accelerate the Ribbon

Ancient word keyboard shortcuts

Build your own fractions

Electronic bookmarks

Lock your document

Drop cap

Map your document

Sort your text

Map Ctrl+F to the Advanced Find Command

Ten Bizarre Things:

Equations

Video in your document

Hidden text

Developer tab

Hyphenation

Document properties

Cross-references

Collect and paste

Click-and-type

Word and the Internet

Ten Automatic Features Worthy Of Deactivation:

Bye-bye start screen

Restore the traditional open and save dialog boxes

Turn off the mini toolbar

Select text by letter

Disable click-and-type

Paste plain text only

Disable AutoFormat features (4x)

Index.