December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
30h 27m
English
book
Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007
by Faithe Wempen, Nicholas Chase, Kathy Jacobs, Karen McCall, Joyce J. Nielsen, Patrick Schmid
Overview
THE ONLY WORD 2007 BOOK YOU NEED
This book will help you build solid skills to create the documents you need right now, and expert-level guidance for leveraging Word’s most advanced features whenever you need them. If you buy only one book on Word 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2007 is the book you need.
• Come up to speed quickly with the new Word 2007 Ribbon interface
• Streamline document formatting with styles, templates, and themes
• Collaborate with others using comments and tracked changes
• Master mail merges, master documents, and other advanced features
• Manage large documents with indexes, TOCs, and automatically numbered references
• Use fields and forms to collect and manage information
• Illustrate key concepts with SmartArt diagrams
• Create and apply custom themes that control fonts, color schemes, and effects
• Manage academic research citations and generate bibliographies in any popular documentation format
On the Web
Includes complete instructions and a command reference you can use to customize the Ribbon with RibbonX, even if you have little or no previous XML experience. You can also download additional RibbonX examples and an easy-to-use RibbonCustomizer utility from this book’s companion web site, www.quepublishing.com/usingword2007.
Contents
About the Authors xxx
Introduction 1
Part I Working with Text Documents
Chapter 1 Introducing Word 2007 7
Chapter 2 Creating and Saving Documents 27
Chapter 3 Typing and Editing Text 59
Chapter 4 Using Spelling, Grammar, and Research Tools 95
Chapter 5 Printing and Faxing Documents 133
Part II Formatting a Document
Chapter 6 Applying Character Formatting 155
Chapter 7 Formatting Paragraphs and Lists 191
Chapter 8 Creating and Applying Styles and Themes 227
Chapter 9 Formatting Documents and Sections 263
Chapter 10 Using and Creating Project Templates 297
Chapter 11 Working with Nonstandard Document Layouts 319
Part III Tables and Graphics
Chapter 12 Creating and Formatting Tables 353
Chapter 13 Working with Photos 395
Chapter 14 Working with Clip Art and the Clip Organizer 425
Chapter 15 Working with Drawings and WordArt 455
Chapter 16 Working with Charts 491
Chapter 17 Working with SmartArt and Math Formulas 533
Part IV Collecting and Managing Data
Chapter 18 Performing Mail and Data Merges 563
Chapter 19 Copying, Linking, and Embedding Data 601
Chapter 20 Working with Fields 631
Chapter 21 Creating Forms 655
Part V Long Documents
Chapter 22 Outlining and Summarizing Documents 681
Chapter 23 Using Master Documents 703
Chapter 24 Citing Sources and References 719
Chapter 25 Creating Tables of Contents and Other Listings 747
Chapter 26 Building Effective Indexes 765
Part VI Collaboration and Online Sharing
Chapter 27 Collaborating with Others 783
Chapter 28 Protecting and Securing Documents 805
Chapter 29 Online Collaboration with Office Live and SharePoint Team Services 823
Chapter 30 Working with Blogs and Email 847
Chapter 31 Developing Web Content 857
Chapter 32 Using Word to Develop XML Content 875
Part VII Customizing and Extending Word
Chapter 33 Macros and Add-Ins 905
Chapter 34 Customizing the Word Interface 935
Chapter 35 Customizing Word 2007’s Ribbon with RibbonX 945
Part VIII Appendixes
Appendix A Recovering Files and Repairing Word 975
Appendix B Converting from Other Word Processing Systems 985
Appendix C Accessibility Tips and Techniques 991
Appendix D Command Reference: Word 2003 to Word 2007 999
Appendix E Setting Up and Modifying Office 2007 1017
Index 1025
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