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Chapter 18 Expert Text-Editing Techniques
Are you having trouble getting kerning to work? See the “Troubleshooting” section, “When You
Can’t Kern,” at the end of this chapter.
Word has one more automatic character-formatting capability that some people love, and
others hate: If you type an asterisk, followed by text, followed by another asterisk, the text
between the asterisks is made bold. Similarly, if you type an underscore, text, underscore,
the text between the underscores is made italic. This feature exists for compatibility with
long-standing formatting conventions in text documents exchanged over the Internet. In
Word 2002 and later, this ...