Book description
This best-seller is totally updated for Word 2000. With more in depth coverage of intermediate and advanced features than ever before, this is the most valuable edition ever and the perfect book for readers ready to grow beyond the basics of Word. This edition includes over 475 exclusive "signature tips", projects at the end of every chapter showing Word 2000 put to work to solve complex document challenges, and more coverage than ever of troubleshooting difficult Word features
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
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Word Basics: Get Productive Fast
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Word: Take the Controls
- What's New in Word 2000
- Quick Tour of the “Cockpit”
- Creating New Documents
- Basic Editing
- Saving Your Documents
- Using AutoRecover to Recover Information from Damaged Files
- Creating Automatic Backups
- Retrieving Your Documents
- Finding the File You're Seeking
- Switching Among Files You've Opened
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Searching Microsoft's Knowledge Base
- Quick and Effective Formatting Techniques
- More Day-to-Day Productivity Tools
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Printing, Faxing, and Email
- Printing the Entire Document
- Specifying What to Print
- Controlling Other Printing Options
- Changing Paper Sources
- Printing a Single Envelope
- Understanding Envelope Printing Options
- Printing Labels
- Printing Many Files at the Same Time
- Creating a Print File from Which You Can Print Later
- Using Print Preview
- Printing a Document to Fax
- Using the Word 2000 Fax Wizard
- Word Documents and Email
- Troubleshooting
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Word: Take the Controls
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Building Slicker Documents Faster
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Making the Most of Word's Proofing Tools
- Using Automatic Spelling and Grammar Checking
- Disabling or Hiding Automatic Spelling and Grammar Checking
- Checking Spelling Through the Spelling and Grammar Dialog Box
- Reproofing a Document You've Already Checked
- Controlling Spelling Settings
- Custom Dictionaries for Custom Needs
- A Closer Look at the Grammar Checker
- Using the Word Thesaurus
- Counting a Document's Words, Pages, Lines, and Characters
- Displaying Readability Statistics
- Troubleshooting
- Streamlining Your Formatting with Styles
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Templates, Wizards, and Add-Ins
- What Templates Are and How They Work
- Selecting a Template for a New Document
- Using Word's Built-In Template Library
- The Normal Template: Crucial to All Documents
- Creating a New Template
- Understanding the Relationship Between Styles and Templates
- Understanding Global Templates
- Attaching a New Template to an Existing Document
- Using Themes to Change the Styles in Your Template
- Previewing New Templates with Style Gallery
- Moving Elements Among Templates
- Managing Templates to Minimize Your Work
- Using Workgroup Templates
- Using Word Wizards
- Understanding Word Add-Ins
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Using a Custom Template to Streamline Monthly Reporting
- Automating Your Documents: AutoCorrect, AutoFormat, AutoText, and AutoSummarize
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Tables: Organizing Your Pages
- Tables: Word's All-Purpose Solution for Structuring Information
- Word's Multiple Approaches to Creating a Table
- Creating Side-by-Side Tables
- Creating Nested Tables
- Editing in a Table
- Changing a Table's Structure or Formatting
- Formatting Within a Table
- Adding Table Borders and Shading
- Controlling Table Breaks and Table Headers
- Working with Table Properties
- Converting Text to Tables
- Converting Tables to Text
- Calculating with Tables
- Quick and Easy Sorting
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Building a Formatted Table for Easy Reuse
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Making the Most of Word's Proofing Tools
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Web and Intranet Publishing with Word 2000
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Using Word to Develop Web Content
- Web Page Development: Word's Strengths and Weaknesses
- Creating a Single Web Page in Word
- The Web Toolbar
- Creating a Web Site with Word's Web Page Wizard
- Creating Your Own Web Page Templates
- Web Publishing in Word 2000
- The New Technologies Used in Word 2000 Web Pages
- Advanced Web Options
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Building a Basic Web Page
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Adding Interactivity with Hyperlinks and Web Forms
- Explaining Hyperlinks
- Connecting with Hyperlinks
- Building Hyperlinks
- Inserting Hyperlinks Automatically
- More Types of Hyperlinks
- Building Hyperlinks to Office Documents
- Hyperlinking and Embedded or Linked Objects
- Editing Hyperlinks
- Relative and Absolute Hyperlinks
- Adding Hyperlinks to Graphics
- Introducing Web Forms
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Building a Basic Web Form
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Deploying Your Internet or Intranet Site, Step by Step
- Understanding Internet, Intranet, and Extranet Sites
- Planning Your Internet, Intranet, or Extranet Web Site
- Designing an Internet or Intranet Site
- Characteristics of Web Server Software
- Publishing Your Web or Intranet Site with Microsoft Internet Information Server
- Setting Up Web Folders to Store Files on Your Web Server
- Testing Your Web Site
- Troubleshooting
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Using Word's Online Collaboration Tools
- Understanding the Role of Online Collaboration
- What Online Collaboration Can Do
- Understanding Office Server Extensions
- Getting Ready to Use Online Collaboration
- Administering Office Server Extensions
- Holding a Discussion
- Scheduling a Meeting with NetMeeting
- Synchronizing Files in Web Folders
- Troubleshooting
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Using Word to Develop Web Content
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Industrial Strength Document Production Techniques
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Using Mail Merge Effectively
- An Overview of Word's Mail Merge
- Using the Mail Merge Helper
- Creating a Main Document
- Creating and Using Data Sources
- Opening an Existing Word Data Source
- Using an Outlook Address Book as a Data Source
- Using an Access Database as a Data Source
- Creating a Separate Header Source
- Specifying Fields to Merge into Your Main Document
- Preparing to Merge
- Printing Accompanying Envelopes and Labels
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Sending Entirely Different Letters in a Single Mail Merge
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Outlining: The Best Way to Organize a Document
- The Benefits of Outlining
- The Role of Heading Styles in Outlining
- Creating a New Outline
- Understanding Outline View
- Controlling Your Outline View
- Hiding Character Formatting
- Expanding/Collapsing Headings
- Navigating an Outline Document with Document Map and Browse Object
- Applying Outline Levels to Specific Text
- Printing Your Outline
- Using Word's Automatic Outline Numbering
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Making Quick Work of Complex Outlining
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Master Documents: Control and Share Even the Largest Documents
- The Advantages of Master Documents
- Choosing How to Create a New Master Document
- Creating a New Master Document and Subdocuments
- Taking a Closer Look at Subdocuments
- Transforming an Existing Document into a Master Document
- Adding an Existing Document to a Master Document
- Saving a Master Document
- Saving Master Documents as Web Pages
- Opening a Master Document
- Editing a Subdocument from Within the Master Document
- Editing Subdocuments Outside the Master Document
- Style Behavior in Master Documents and Subdocuments
- Reorganizing a Master Document
- Removing a Subdocument
- Creating a Table of Contents, Index, or Cross-References for a Master Document
- Printing Master Documents and Subdocuments
- Working with Others on the Same Master Document
- Inserting Files Rather than Using Master Documents
- Using Insert File to Insert Part of a Document
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Managing a Manual with Master Documents
- Tables of Contents, Figures, Authorities, and Captioning
- Building More Effective Indexes
- Footnotes, Bookmarks, and Cross-References
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Using Mail Merge Effectively
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The Visual Word: Making Documents and Web Pages Look Great
- Getting Images into Your Documents
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Drawing in Word
- When to Use Word's Drawing Tools—And When Not To
- Using Word 2000's Drawing Toolbar
- Understanding How Word Drawings Work
- Drawing Lines and Other Basic Shapes
- AutoShapes: Word's Library of Predrawn Shapes
- Controlling Colors
- Adding Depth to Your Graphics
- Editing Objects in a Word Drawing
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Creating an Image and Combining It with Edited Clip Art
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Word Desktop Publishing
- Word 2000: Almost a Full-Fledged Desktop Publishing Program
- When to Use Word—And When Not To
- Planning Your Document
- Quick and Easy Brochures with the Brochure Template
- Working with Multiple Columns
- Using Drop Caps
- Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
- Working with Special Characters
- Using Text Boxes
- Linking Text Boxes
- Troubleshooting
- Project: A Strategy for Building a Newsletter in Word
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Using Graphs to Make Sense of Your Data—Visually
- Understanding Graphs and Charts
- A High-Level Look at Charting in Word
- Creating Data to Be Graphed
- Tips for Selecting Which Data to Include
- Making Yourself at Home in Microsoft Graph
- Choosing Among Word's Extensive Selection of Charts
- Working with Chart Options
- Formatting Chart Elements
- Creating a Custom Chart Type
- Creating a Chart from Scratch
- Using Trendlines
- Using Error Bars
- Revising Charts Automatically
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Including a Custom Formatted Chart in a Report
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The Corporate Word
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Managing Revisions
- An Overview of Word's Team Writing Tools
- Working with Comments
- Working with Track Changes
- Merging Revisions
- Resolving Proposed Changes
- Using Word's Versioning Feature
- Streamlining the Review Process with Microsoft Outlook
- Assigning a Review Task to Someone Else
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Establishing a Review Process for Complex Documents
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Creating Forms
- Word's Forms Capabilities: An Overview
- When to Use Word, When to Use Another Tool
- Applications for Word's Forms Feature
- Building the Skeleton of Your Form
- Adding Interactivity with Form Fields
- Advanced Form Field Features
- Setting Tab Order for Your Form Fields
- Converting Electronic Forms to Printed Forms
- Working with Prompting Forms
- Protecting an Entire Form
- Filling in Online Forms
- Saving Only the Data in a Form
- Printing Only the Data in Forms
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Building a Meeting Agenda Form
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Word 2000 Multilanguage Features
- An Overview of Multilanguage Support in Word, Office, and Windows
- Setting Up Windows for International Environments
- Word and Office Multilingual Features
- Entering Asian Text with Input Method Editors
- Changing Proofing Languages During a Spell Check
- Understanding the Microsoft MultiLanguage Pack
- Changing Language Settings After You've Installed the MultiLanguage Pack
- Using Foreign Dates and Times in Your Documents
- Using Foreign Language Rules for Sorting
- Microsoft Office's Multilanguage File Organization
- Using the Euro Symbol for the New European Currency
- Word Settings for Creating International Web Pages
- Troubleshooting
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Automating Your Documents with Field Codes
- Understanding Fields
- Fields That Might Already Be in Your Document
- Viewing Fields
- Inserting a Field Using the Field Dialog Box
- Inserting a Field Using Field Characters
- Updating Your Fields
- Locking Fields to Prevent Them from Updating
- Shortcuts for Working with Fields
- Finding and Replacing Field Contents
- Moving Among Fields
- A Closer Look at Field Instructions
- A Closer Look at Field Formatting
- Nesting Fields
- Troubleshooting
- Project: Building a Cover Sheet
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Customizing Word
- Deciding Which Word Features to Customize
- Starting Word Automatically
- Starting Word with a Particular Task
- Customizing Toolbars
- Adding a New Toolbar
- Renaming and Deleting Custom Toolbars
- Restoring Default Settings
- Customizing Menus
- Creating New Keyboard Shortcuts
- Controlling Word's Customization Options
- Changing Word Options
- Changing General Options
- Changing Editing Options
- Troubleshooting
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Integrating with Microsoft Office
- Word and Office: More Tightly Integrated Than Ever
- Integrating Excel and Word
- Working with Access and Word
- Using PowerPoint with Word
- Integrating with Microsoft Publisher 2000
- Using Outlook with Word
- Using Binders to Combine Multiple Documents
- Using the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
- Using Microsoft Photo Editor 3.01
- Using Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0
- Using Equation Editor 3.0
- Troubleshooting
- Sharing Files and Managing Word
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Managing Revisions
- The Power of VBA
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Appendixes
- Deploying Word and Office 2000 Throughout the Enterprise
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Field Reference
- General Switches Available in Word Fields
- = (Formula)
- Advance
- Ask
- Author
- AutoNum
- AutoNumLgl
- AutoNumOut
- AutoText
- AutoTextList
- BarCode
- BidiOutline
- Comments
- Compare
- CreateDate
- Database
- Date
- DocProperty
- DocVariable
- EditTime
- Eq
- FileName
- FileSize
- FillIn
- GoToButton
- Hyperlink
- If
- IncludePicture
- IncludeText
- Index
- Info
- Keywords
- LastSavedBy
- Link
- ListNum
- MacroButton
- MergeField
- MergeRec
- MergeSeq
- Next
- NextIf
- NoteRef
- NumChars
- NumPages
- NumWords
- Page
- PageRef
- PrintDate
- Private
- Quote
- RD
- Ref
- Revnum
- SaveDate
- Section
- SectionPages
- Seq
- Set
- SkipIf
- StyleRef
- Subject
- Symbol
- TA
- TC
- Template
- Time
- Title
- TOA
- TOC
- UserAddress
- UserInitials
- UserName
- XE
- What's on Que's Special Edition WOPR 2000 Pack CD
- Index
Product information
- Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 1999
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780789718525
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