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Word Hacks Tips & Tools for Taming Your Text

By Andrew Savikas
First Edition November 2004
Pages: 396
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00493-1 | ISBN 13: 9780596004934
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)

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Become a power user with Word Hacks! Insider tips, tools, tricks, and hacks help you accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems. The book examines Word's advanced (and often hidden) features and delivers clever, time-saving hacks on taming document bloat, customization, complex search and replace, tables and comments, XML, and even using Google without leaving Word!
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As one of the applications in Microsoft Office, Word is the dominant word-processing program for both Windows and Mac users. Millions of people around the globe use it. But many, if not most, of them barely skim the surface of what is possible with Microsoft Word. Seduced by the application's supposed simplicity, they settle for just what's obvious--even if it doesn't satisfy their wants and needs. They may curse the wretched Bullets and Numbering buttons multiple times a day or take hours to change the font size of every heading in a lengthy report, yet they're reluctant to dig deeper to take advantage of Word's immense capabilities and limitless customization tools. Let Word Hacks be your shovel. Let it carve your way into Word and make this most popular and powerful application do precisely what you want it to do. Filled with insider tips, tools, tricks, and hacks, this book will turn you into the power user you always wanted to be. Far beyond a tutorial, Word Hacks assumes you have a solid working knowledge of the application and focuses on showing you exactly how to accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems. Author Andrew Savikas examines Word's advanced (and often hidden) features and delivers clever, time-saving hacks on taming document bloat, customization, complex search and replace, Tables of Contents and indexes, importing and exporting files, tables and comments, and even using Google as a dictionary! With him as your guide, you'll soon be understanding--and hacking--Word in ways you never thought possible. Covering Word 2000, 2002 and Word 2003, Word Hacks exposes the inner workings of Word and releases your inner hacker; with it, you will be equipped to take advantage of the application s staggering array of advanced features that were once found only in page layout programs and graphics software and turning Word into your personal productivity powerhouse.

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First Edition: November 2004
Series: Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-00493-1
Pages: 396
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)

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Auto Numbering Hack, October 29 2005

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Submitted by Sekitto - Professional Member British Computer Society [Respond | View]

The hack for automatic document numbering was fantastic. Besides automatically numbering documents the same can be used to track the number of documents that have been typed in the program during a specified period.

great book for tech writers, March 16 2005

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Submitted by RosaMundi [Respond | View]

Wonderful quick reference for tech writers who want to make Word play nicely. The hack for turning off overwrite mode is alone worth the price of the book. Contains many hacks not available even from the MVP Word website, including ways to handle doc corruption, a topic for which I have had trouble finding comprehensive info.

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O'Reilly Staff Pick - December 2005

I strongly recommend Word Hacks for even the casual Word user. This book will show you how to dig underneath the hood and unleash the program's most powerful capabilities. My favorite hack? Search Google without ever leaving Word. Full Disclosure: I was the editor of Word Hacks. Read More

-- Brett Johnson, Associate Editor Consumer Books

Media reviews
"All levels of users should examine Word Hacks. It reminds me of the account of Howard Carter, peering through a small hold into Tut'ankhamun's tomb, reporting that the could see 'wonderful things.'"
-- Major Keary, Book News

"This is the best book I've seen about Microsoft Word since Woody Leonhard's Word 97 Annoyances. If you have to use Word for more than the occasional letter or memo, this one is a must purchase."
--Keith Soltys, Soltys.ca, March 2005

"At $24.95, this collection of tips and trick is well worth the investment. Browsing through the Hacks is a great way to discover the hidden potential contained in Word. The directions for creating macros are easy to understand and the explanations of terms and technologies are excellent. If you use the Windows version of Microsoft’s Word 2000, Word 2002, or Word 2003, you’ll want this resource on your bookshelf. Although not the target audience, even users of Word 97 will find a lot of useful information between the covers."
--Iris Yoffa, Tucson Computer Society, August 2005

"Word enthusiasts of all abilities will find this book of value. The chance to change the look, feel and functionality of a program we spend so much time using, not only improves productivity, but also gives the chance to make the program work the way you want to."
--Mark Brett, Mark.Brett.com, February 2005

"If you are familiar with the language of computer programs, this is the right book to get the most from Word. You can use most of the hacks in the book, even if you know nothing about VBA because the explainations and examples are so well done... All in all, it is a very useful book that a makes Word more productive."
--Bettie Cummings Cook, SW Indiana PC Users Group, July 2005

"Even if you are not, however, a 'power user,' a copy of Word Hacks belongs on the reference shelf of every organization that considers Microsoft Word its word-processing standard. Consider that the twenty-five dollar list price is the equivalent of one hour of a professional's time, an hour wasted on thrashing through the interface trying to figure out how to 'Revert to the Saved Version' (Hack 5) or 'Create a Custom Text Watermark' (Hack 24). A couple of bucks well spent, in my estimation."
--Epinions.com, January 2005

"If your livelihood depends on using Word in the WinTel environment, and you are allowed to use macros without them somehow getting compromised by malware, this book will pay for itself in no time."
--Robert Pritchett, MacCompanion, January 2005 (3:1)

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