Chapter 8. Creating Complex Documents and Layouts

Once you've mastered the art of formatting your documents with styles (as described in Chapter 7), you're ready to create long or complex documents in Word.

In this chapter, you'll learn first how to use the extra table features that Word provides over those that the Office applications share. Then I'll show you how to break a document into multiple sections; how to add headers, footers, and page numbers; and how to create newspaper-style columns of text.

After that, you'll see how to mark important parts of a document with bookmarks and how to insert cross-references back to these bookmarks or to other parts. Finally, you'll learn how to develop your documents using Word's powerful Outline view ...

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