Word 2016 For dummies

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 Documents:

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.