Microsoft Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 3. Introducing Word 2002

With Word 2002, the word processing component of the Microsoft Office XP suite, you can create letters, memos, invoices, proposals, reports, forms, Web pages, and just about any other printed or electronically distributed documents.

You can type text into Word and insert drawings or scanned photos, formatting the text and graphics into sophisticated documents complete with running headers and footers, footnotes, cross-references, page numbers, tables of contents, and indexes. Or you can create simple text memos with Word’s easy-to-use features.

Word’s approach, like that of the other applications in the Office suite, is entirely visual. As you work in a document, you see all the text, graphics, and formatting exactly ...