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Word For Dummies
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Word For Dummies

by Dan Gookin
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
8h 44m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Hello, Word!

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Starting Word

Bullet Deciphering the Word screen

Bullet Understanding the Ribbon

Bullet Zooming in and out

Bullet Quitting Word

Bullet Minimizing Word

According to the popular book Pencils For Dummies, the pencil is the ultimate word processing tool. It’s easy to use, it’s wireless, and it features the original Undo command, in the form of an eraser. And that’s all the hilarity you’ll find packed into Pencils For Dummies.

As a writing tool, the pencil remains popular and relatively easy to figure out, but it’s not that technologically advanced. Your typical Ticonderoga #2 lacks many of the powerful capabilities you find in a sophisticated application like Microsoft Word, which is why Word requires a more formal introduction.

Start Your Word Day

Word the program dwells as a digital resident of your PC, a loyal subject of the king of the computer realm, Windows. It also exists ...

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