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Guy Hart-Davis, Learn Office 2016 for Mac, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2002-3_6

6. Entering Text and Using Views

Guy Hart-Davis

(1)Barnard Castle, Durham, UK

In this chapter, I’ll show you how to enter text quickly in Word documents by using the extra features that Word provides, which go beyond those in the other apps. You’ll see how to select text in advanced ways with the pointing device and the keyboard, how to move around your documents using keyboard shortcuts and the Go To feature, and how to tell Word where to find your custom templates.

You’ll also learn how to make Word automatically create backup documents so that you can recover from disastrous edits or other mishaps and how to exploit the possibilities offered by Word’s ...

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