February 2025
Beginner
400 pages
8h 54m
English
Content preview from Microsoft 365 Word For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 4
Text Editing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deleting characters
Deleting lines, sentences, and more
Splitting and joining paragraphs
Understanding hard and soft returns
Undoing your mistakes
Using the Redo (Undo-Undo) command
It’s said that the author Isaac Asimov wrote final drafts the first time. Yet most people I know can’t even finish a document’s first paragraph. That’s because mortal humans labor through writing, deleting, and rewriting. This issue is no cause for concern because Word features an abundance of text editing tools, or commands you use to make your text look perfect — just like Dr. Asimov did the first time.
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One of the reasons budding writers get stuck is that they spend more time editing than writing. Therefore, my advice is to concentrate first on writing — then edit. ...