Microsoft 365 Word For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Introduction

The only thing standing between you and your writing is your word processor. Yes, it tries to be helpful, but computers can do only so much. As a smart person, you desire more help than the computer is capable of giving, which I’m guessing is why you opened this book.

Welcome to Word For Dummies, which removes the pain from using Microsoft’s greatest and most bewildering word processing software ever! This book is your friendly, informative, and entertaining guide to getting the most from Word.

Be warned: I’m not trying to force you to love Word. This book won’t make you enjoy the program. Use it, yes. Tolerate it, of course. The only promise I’m offering is to ease the pain that most people feel from using Microsoft Word. If you get in a good laugh at Word’s expense along the way, all the better.

About This Book

Please don’t read this book from cover to cover. It’s not a novel, and if it were, it would be a political space opera with an unlikely antihero and a plucky princess fighting corrupt elected officials who are in cahoots with an evil intergalactic urban renewal development corporation. The ending would be extremely satisfying.

This book is a reference. Each chapter covers a specific topic or task that Word otherwise pretends is easy. Within each chapter, you find self-contained sections, each of which describes how to perform a specific task or get something done. Here are some sample topics you encounter in this book:

• Moving a block
• Check your spelling ...