Chapter 4
Text Editing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deleting characters
Deleting lines, sentences, and more
Splitting and joining paragraphs
Understanding hard and soft returns
Undoing your mistakes
Using the Redo (Undo-Undo) command
They say that the author Isaac Asimov wrote final drafts the first time. If only your and my scrivening were perfect as the electronic words hit the digital page. Word processing involves creating text, but the task also involves reviewing and editing your words. Yes, unlike Asimov, eventually you must edit something you wrote.
To accommodate text editing requirements, Word comes with a host of commands to chop, slice, stitch, and otherwise reassemble your text. These commands are a necessary part of word processing, and they work best when you have oodles of text to edit. Therefore, my advice is to concentrate first on writing — then edit.
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