Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 19. Alternative Ways to Add Content

In this section

• Correcting Text Automatically

• Translating Foreign-Language Text

• Scanning Text

• Editing a Fax Document

• Inserting Special Characters

• Dictating Your Text

• Dictating Custom Text

• Telling Your Program What to Do

• Writing Text by Hand

• Drawing Pictures in Word

We had a lot of fun when we wrote this section of the book, and we’re sure that you’ll be as intrigued as we are by the Microsoft Office System’s innovative, imaginative, and timesaving features that take you and your computer to a new level of usefulness and efficiency.

One of our favorites is the AutoCorrect feature, which corrects your own repetitive typing errors and common misspellings as you type. You won’t even notice it most of the time, but it’s ...