Book description
Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Word 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to create and share documents.
Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:
Create, edit, format, and share text
Add graphics, data, table, and charts
Improve page layout to best present your ideas
Use and make templates for increased productivity
Collaborate and present documents online
Access your documents from almost any browser
Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:
Jump in wherever you need answers
Follow easy STEPS and SCREENSHOTS to see exactly what to do
Get handy TIPS for new techniques and shortcuts
Use TRY THIS! Exercises to apply what you learn right away
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- 1. About this book
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2. Introducing Word 2013
- What’s new in Word 2013
- Starting the Word program
- Exploring the ribbon
- Using the Quick Access Toolbar
- Switching views
- Using built-in keyboard shortcuts
- Opening documents
- Editing a PDF document
- Getting information about a document
- Saving documents
- Exporting a document to other file types
- Recovering lost work
- Using the Read Mode
- Managing your online accounts
- Printing a document
- Finding help in Word
- Finding help on the Internet
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3. Creating and revising documents
- Starting a new document
- Selecting text
- Inserting and overtyping text
- Copying and moving Items
- Managing the Office clipboard
- Undoing mistaken actions
- Navigating a document in the Navigation pane
- Navigating by using the search feature
- Replacing existing text
- Using wildcard find and replace
- Organizing topics
- Inserting built-in building blocks
- Creating your own building blocks
- Managing building blocks
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4. Correcting and improving the text
- Correcting a spelling or grammar error
- Running a manual spelling or grammar check
- Marking text to ignore spelling
- Adding common misspellings to AutoCorrect
- Using AutoCorrect entries as shortcuts
- Setting AutoFormat options
- Getting definitions and synonyms
- Counting words
- Finding a translation
- Changing the proofing language of text
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5. Formatting text for best appearance
- Formatting with styles
- Creating and modifying styles
- Using the Styles pane
- Changing the character formatting of text
- Applying highlighting
- Using the Format Painter
- Changing paragraph alignment and indents
- Changing line and paragraph spacing
- Controlling line and page breaks
- Adding borders and shading
- Building a bulleted or numbered list
- Changing the bullets or numbering
- Changing numbering values
- Using multilevel numbered headings
- Revealing existing formatting
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6. Building impressive documents
- Inserting a section break
- Inserting headers and footers
- Choosing page size and margins
- Changing the page orientation
- Changing the number of columns
- Applying a border around a page
- Inserting a cover page
- Working with the Normal template
- Finding and downloading templates
- Customizing an existing template
- Designing a template
- Basing a new document on a custom template
- Designing a template for two-sided printing
- Using themes and style sets
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7. Making layouts with tables and text boxes
- Inserting tab stops on the ruler
- Inserting a simple table
- Copying an Excel table into Word
- Converting text to a table and back again
- Setting tab atops in table cells
- Adding and deleting rows and columns
- Resizing rows and columns
- Setting table alignment
- Setting table text wrapping
- Merging and splitting cells
- Setting cell alignment and direction
- Repeating header rows
- Using table styles for uniform appearance
- Inserting text boxes
- Linking a chain of text boxes
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8. Managing data in documents
- Using the Field dialog box
- Inserting fields from the keyboard
- Toggling field codes and updating fields
- Controlling field formatting by using switches
- Inserting Page and Date fields by using shortcuts
- Using bookmarks
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Repeating information by using cross-references
- Inserting content controls
- Grouping content controls for a form
- Using document properties
- Sorting a list
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9. Formatting reports and formal documents
- Making a different first page header or different odd and even pages header
- Unlinking a header
- Extracting text for a header or footer from body text
- Inserting a watermark
- Adding footnotes and endnotes
- Generating a table of contents
- Updating a table of contents
- Modifying table of contents styles
- Using multiple tables of contents
- Indexing a document
- Using multiple indexes
- Making tables of tables and tables of figures
- Creating a bibliography
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10. Making pictures work for you
- Choosing illustration types
- Inserting a picture from your computer
- Inserting an online picture
- Inserting online video
- Inserting a screenshot
- Positioning pictures on the page
- Resizing a picture
- Cropping a picture
- Replacing a picture
- Changing the appearance of a picture
- Removing the background from a picture
- Applying special effects
- Setting a transparent color
- 11. Adding your own artwork
- 12. Mailing paper or pixels
- 13. Reviewing documents
- 14. Sharing and coauthoring in Word
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15. Ensuring privacy and security
- Viewing the Word 2013 Trust Center
- Changing which files open in Protected View
- Adding trusted locations and trusted publishers
- Setting privacy options
- Using the Document Inspector
- Protecting a document by using a password
- Restricting editing and formatting
- Marking a document as read-only or final
- Adding a digital signature
- 16. Installing and using Apps for Office
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17. Customizing Word
- Customizing the screen
- Customizing the keyboard
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
- Creating a custom tab or group on the ribbon
- Adding tools to a custom group
- Setting general options
- Controlling what is displayed and printed
- Setting spelling and grammar options
- Changing the default file format for saving documents
- Working with advanced options
- Managing styles
- Recording macros
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Microsoft: Word 2013 Plain & Simple
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735672925
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