Chapter 1. About this book

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Microsoft Office 2013 is like a room full of tool boxes; it’s an enormous resource for doing many kinds of jobs that involve information. When you start a project, you should know which box to reach for and what tools it contains. Sometimes you’ll need more than one tool—or even more than one tool box—to complete your work.

One of the biggest tool boxes in Office 2013 is Microsoft Word 2013. As a word processor, it’s mainly for writing and formatting text, but it doesn’t stop there—its tools help you with pictures, videos, charts, and graphs. Although its traditional role is printing paper documents, ...

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