Chapter 25

Word for Writers

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Creating an outline in Word

Bullet Adding topics, subtopics, and text topics

Bullet Rearranging topics in an outline

Bullet Demoting and promoting topics

Bullet Printing an outline

Bullet Making a master document

Bullet Using the thesaurus

Bullet Pulling a word count

The word processor is the best tool for writers since the ghostwriter. Of course, cobbling together words in a word processor doesn’t make you a writer any more than working with numbers in a spreadsheet makes you an accountant. Even so, beyond its basic word processing capabilities, Word comes with an armada of tools for making a writer’s job easier. Whether you’re writing your first guest piece for the church newsletter or ...

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