May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
33h 57m
English
If you feel intimidated by all of Word's formatting options, you can leave your document's destiny in the hands of Word's (occasionally useful, but frequently awful) batch AutoFormat capability.
When you run it, AutoFormat scans your document, identifies the "AutoFormat As You Type" kinds of changes—curling quotes, creating headings, AutoNumbering and AutoBulleting lists, and the like—adds some general formatting changes (one that is particularly despicable: changing Normal paragraphs to Body Text), and then allows you to review those changes, one by one.
→ To learn more about the evils of AutoFormatting, see "Automatic Formatting".
Because you do have the ability to review the changes onscreen ...
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