Errata

Microsoft® Office 2010 Plain & Simple

Errata for Microsoft® Office 2010 Plain & Simple

The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
PDF
Page 6
In Tip

Remove last sentence of Tip and replace it with "You can use Office Mobile 2010 with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 smartphones. You can download Office Mobile 2010 directly through Marketplace on your device."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
PDF
Page 16
Blank area beneath figure

Add the following Tip:

"Tip
You can use a shortcut key to choose a tool in a shortcut menu by typing the underlined letter in the tool you want to select."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 23
Blank space at bottom of page

Please add the following tip and note:

"Tip
In Word, you can click the Print All Pages arrow (the first item under Settings), and choose the pages you want to print. If you want to print on both sides of the page but your printer doesn't support dual-sided printing automatically, you can do it manually by clicking Print All Pages and choosing Only Print Odd Pages. Click Print to print the pages, and then remove them from the printer, make sure they are in sequential order, and then put them back in your printer to print the even pages. Click Print All Pages again, and this time click Only Print Even Pages and click Print."

"Note
The tools available in Print Settings vary from application to application."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 42
Bottom white space

Please add the following Tips :

"Tip
After you add the screenshot to your document, you can click it and apply special formatting touches like a shadow, frame, artistic effects, or other style by choosing the tools you want to use in the Picture Tools Format tab."

"Tip
If you want to save a screenshot to a file so that you can insert it as a picture in other documents, right-click the image and click Save Picture As in the shortcut menu. Choose the folder where you want to save the file, enter a file name, and click the Save As Type arrow to choose the format in which you want to save the file. Then click Save to save the file so that you can use it again later."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 51
Blank space below fig

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
Click Update Services (the tool farthest to the right in the tools row of the Mini Translator) to display a list of services used in translation. You can click Update to choose different services or update the services being used."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 74
Blank space on bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
You can also add page numbers when you're working with a header or footer in Word. Click in the header or footer area, and the Header & Footer Tools Design tab becomes avaliable. Click Page Number in the Header & Footer group on the left end of the ribbon, and follow the steps on these two pages to add the page number as you want it to appear."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 90
Blank space at bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
After you get the spacing just the way you want it, you can save the new settings by creating a style you can apply to other text you want to format in this same way. Select the text with the format you want to save, right-click your selection, and point to Style. Click Save Selection as a New Quick Style, type a name for the new style, and click OK. Now you'll be able to select your new format in the Styles gallery in the Home tab."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 108
Blank area at bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
You aren't limited to the header and footer styles Word offers in the gallery; you can create your own by changing the font, color, and size; adding lines and pictures; and even inserting document properties like the title or creation date of the document."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 113
Blank area at bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
You can tell Word whether you want the columns to be applied to a specific section of text (for example, if you want to create a multicolumn list within a long document) or to be used throughout the document by choosing the setting you want in the Apply To field. If you want to create columns for just a portion of text, select the text first, display the Columns dialog box, enter your settings, and click the Apply To arrow. Choose Selected Text. You want the column changes to apply to the entire document, click Apply To and choose Whole Document; then click OK."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 116
Blank area at bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
You can also display the text wrapping options by right-clicking a picture in your document and pointing to Wrap Text. Simply click the option you want to apply to the picture and the text is reflowed as you selected."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 135
Blank area at the bottom of the page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
After you've added the table of contents to your document, you can update it easily by clicking the table and pressing F9. Word helps you keep the table of contents up to date so that the page numbers and headings are correct, even after you've added text, moved sections around in the document, or edited the headings in the file."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 162
2nd paragraph - set the Column Width

The procedure specified to set the column width for a selected column is not feasible. It says to right-click on the header for a selected column and then click on Column Width from the shortcut menu that appears. There is no Column Width entry in the shortcut menu.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The reader misunderstood what I was referring to as the column header in the text. Let's change Step 2 on pg 162 to say the following:

"Right-click one of the selected column headers (F, in the figure) and choose Column Width from the shortcut menu to dislpay the Column Width dialog box."

Let's also add a note in the blank space in the lower left corner of page 163:

"Note
The tools on the shortcut menu vary depending on whether you select a column or row header--that is, the letter or number at the top or leftmost cell of a column or row--or a cell or a range on the worksheet."

D J Smith  Jun 19, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 222
Blank area at bottom of page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
You can also draw your own freeform table by clicking the Insert tab, clicking Table, and choosing Draw Table. Drag to draw the table on the slide. Click the Draw Table tool in the Draw Borders group of the Table Tools Design tab, and add rows and columns by clicking on the border of the table and drawing a line to the opposite edge of the table border. Continue adding lines until you have the number of rows and columns you want, and then click outside the table to add it to the slide."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011
Printed
Page 311
Black area at the bottom of the page

Please add this Tip:

"Tip
Once you finish setting up the look of your publication, you can save it as a template if you'd like to use this look for other Publisher files as well. Click the File tab and click Save As. In the Save As dialog box, enter a name for the file, and click the Save As Type arrow. Choose Publisher Template, and click Save. You will be able to start a new Publisher file based on the template by clicking New, clicking My Templates, selecting your new template, and clicking Create."

Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray
 
Sep 24, 2011  Sep 30, 2011