Chapter 6
Refining and Editing Documents with Word
IN THIS CHAPTER
Moving text and graphics within documents
Checking your spelling and grammar
Correcting automatically with AutoCorrect
Using Word’s built-in and online reference tools
Finding and replacing for faster revisions
Moving right along, it’s now time to refine your word-processing skills and, at the same time, find out how to refine your documents, making them better in every way. As high school English teachers say, “The art of writing is rewriting.” This chapter shows you how.
In this chapter, you find out how to refine and edit documents to make them better. You see techniques for experimenting with the order in which your words and images appear on the page as well as how to find and fix errors that have crept into your documents. And you find out how to use Word’s built-in thesaurus to explore alternatives to words you use or overuse in your documents.
Moving Text and Images in Your Documents
In the old days, when ...
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