Microsoft Word

 Starting with Font

• A Knowledge of Fonts
• Describing text
• Understanding text attributes
• Selecting the proper typeface
• Font Control
• Exploring the Font group
• Using the Font dialog box
• Choosing fonts with a theme
• Changing the default font
• Typography Control
• Changing text scale
• Setting character spacing
• Adding kerning and ligatures
• Adjusting text position
• Text Effects Strange and Wonderful
• Accessing the Format Text Effects pane
• Changing text fill
• Setting a text outline
• Adding a text shadow
• Configuring text reflection and glow
• Creating hidden text
• Find and Replace Text Formatting

Paragraph Layout

• A Typical Paragraph
• Understanding paragraph formatting
• Finding paragraph control in Word
• Working with the Ruler
• Pure Paragraph Formatting
• Using justification
• Working with paragraph indents
• Setting a first-line indent
• Creating a hanging indent
• Increasing space before or after a paragraph
• Adjusting line spacing
• Adding some shade
• Hyphenation
• Adding a manual hyphen
• Automatically hyphenating text
• Inserting an unbreakable hyphen
• Of Widows and Orphans

Tabs and Lists                               

• The Whole Tab Thing
• Understanding tab stops
• Setting tab stops on the Ruler
• Using the Tabs dialog box
• Viewing tab characters
• Tab Cookbook
• Building a hanging-indent list
• Building a double-tab hanging-indent list
• Creating a tabbed list
• Setting a Center tab stop
• Building a left-justified, right-justified list
• Building a back-to-back list
• Lining up values with a decimal tab
• Creating a leader tab list
• Adding a leader tab to an existing tab stop
• Building fill-in-the-blanks underlines
• Finding an excuse to use the Bar tab
• Numbered Lists
• Numbering paragraphs
• Adjusting numbering indents
• Skipping paragraph numbers
• Restarting numbered paragraphs
• Numbering paragraphs starting at a specific value
• Creating custom paragraph numbers
• Bulleted Lists
• The Multilevel List

Custom Tables                                                                                        

• Let’s Build a Table
• Creating a table, the original way
• Inserting a fresh, new table
• Converting tabs to a table
• Drawing a table
• Adding a quick table
• Table Editing
• Filling the table
• Selecting stuff in a table
• Inserting rows or columns
• Merging and splitting cells
• Setting the table size
• Adjusting row and column size
• Make the Table Less Obnoxious
• Adding a table heading
• Aligning text
• Setting text direction
• Setting gridlines
• Applying instant table formats
• Some Table Tricks
• Sorting a table
• Splitting a table between two pages
• Applying table math
• Adios, Table
• Removing a cell
• Deleting rows or columns
• Converting a table to text
• Deleting a table’s text
• Deleting a table

Custom Columns                                        

• The Columns Philosophy
• Understanding columns
• Setting columns in Word
• More than One Column
• Creating -column text
• Applying full justification
• Adjusting the column gutter
• Using a column break
• Applying columns to part of a document
• Triple Columns — and More!
• Building a triple-column page
• Setting four or more columns

Page Control                                             

• All about Page Formatting
• Finding the page formatting commands
• Choosing the paper size
• Creating envelopes
• Adding more than one page per sheet
• Changing orientation
• Setting the page margins
• Behold! A New Page!
• Adding a hard page break
• Inserting a blank page
• The Big Deal with Sections
• Understanding sections
• Creating a section break
• Removing a section break

Headers and Footers                                   

• Headers, Headings, Footers, Footings
• Quick-Slap a Header or Footer
• Your Very Own Headers and Footers
• Creating a header
• Switching between the header and footer
• Typing text in a header
• Adding page numbers
• Placing objects in the header
• Resetting the header position
• Removing a header
• When Headers and Footers Change
• Working with headers in sections
• Creating odd and even headers
• Page Numbering Galore
• Adding an instant page number
• Restarting page numbering
• Choosing another page number style

Style Methods and Madness                         

• The World of Styles
• Understanding style types
• Finding Word’s style commands
• Applying a style
• Unapplying a style
• A New Style
• Formatting text and then creating a style
• Making a style from scratch
• Modifying a style
• Setting the next style
• Creating a heading style
• Style Management
• Selecting instances of a style
• Deleting a style
• Stealing a style from another document

The Tao of Templates                                 

• Template
• Understanding templates
• Starting a new document
• Choosing an online template
• Using one of your own templates
• Make Your Own Template
• Building a custom template
• Modifying a template
• Updating template documents
• Template Management
• Finding the templates
• Reassigning templates

Text and Graphics Layout                            

• Where Text and Objects Meet
• Finding things to insert into a document
• Mixing text and objects
• Layout Choices
• Setting layout options
• Using the Inline option
• Wrapping text around an object
• Editing the wrap points
• Setting the image’s position
• Floating an object in front of or behind text
• Aligning objects on a page

Drawing Objects

• Shapes and Such
• Inserting a drawing object
• Drawing a freeform shape
• Changing the object’s position
• Resizing the shape
• Rotating the shape
• Setting the objects’ colors, line styles, and effects
• Editing a shape
• Shapes in Groups
• Arranging shapes in front or behind
• Aligning shapes
• Grouping multiple shapes
• Using the drawing canvas
• Text and Graphics in Boxes
• Inserting a text box
• Converting a shape into a text box
• Linking text boxes
• Adding a picture to a shape

Pictures and Illustrations

• One Thousand Words
• Adding an image
• Copying and pasting an image
• Adding an image from the web
• Replacing an image
• Removing a picture
• Image Adjustment
• Cropping an image
• Removing the background
• Making corrections
• Adjusting the image’s color
• Adding artistic effects
• Restoring an image (removing effects)
• Picture Frame Formatting
• Selecting a picture style
• Adding a border
• Applying a frame effect
• Caption That Picture

Insert Objects Weird and Amazing

• Objects Beyond Mere Mortal Text
• Having fun with WordArt
• Adding SmartArt
• Inserting a whole other Word document
• Summing up equations
• Putting a video in your document
• Where Word Meets Excel
• Pasting part of an Excel worksheet into a document
• Copying and linking a worksheet
• Opening an Excel worksheet inside of Word
• Whipping up a chart

Beyond Routine Documents                          

• Cover Pages
• Selecting a preset cover page
• Designing your own cover page
• Resetting the page number
• Centering a page from top to bottom
• Using text boxes for titles
• Word’s Phony Watermarks
• Adding a watermark
• Customizing the watermark
• Removing the watermark
• Printing background objects
• Document Tricks
• Writing a return address
• Adding page color
• Setting a page border
• Putting the filename in a header or footer
• Printing for three-ring binding
• Setting document properties
• Creating a digital signature object

Different Document Types and Printer Control   

• Save Documents in Strange Formats
• Understanding document formats
• Saving a plain-text document
• Saving in the old Word document format
• Creating a PDF
• Saving an RTF document
• Open Documents from Strange Formats
• Recovering text from any old file
• Choosing a specific document format
• Reading a PDF
• Converting a document from Compatibility Mode
• Printer Tricks
• Printing a PDF
• Printing multiple copies
• Printing on both sides of a sheet of paper
• Printing more than one page per sheet

Collaboration and Sharing                           

• Here Are My Thoughts
• Highlighting text
• Inserting a comment
• Showing and hiding comments
• Reviewing comments
• Marking a comment as Done
• Deleting comments
• Look What They Did!
• Activating the Track Changes feature
• Disabling Track Changes
• Locking the changes
• Showing or hiding revisions
• Accepting or rejecting changes
• When Revision Marks Are Forgotten
• Online Collaboration
• Sending out invitations
• Working together on a document
• Ending collaboration

Word for Lawyers and WordPerfect Converts     

• Line Numbers on the Page
• Adding line numbers
• Formatting line numbers
• Removing line numbers
• The Table of Authorities
• Marking citations
• Inserting the table of authorities
• Other Legal Considerations
• Setting a left-right block indent
• Redacting text
• Hello, WordPerfect User!
• Converting your WordPerfect documents
• Revealing the codes
• Understanding Word’s oddities

Tools for Every Author                                 

• Behold! The Document Window
• Showing or hiding the Ribbon
• Going full-screen
• Setting the document view
• Adding useful panes
• Controlling the status bar
• Count Your Words
• Checking the word count
• Adding the word count to the status bar
• Inserting the current word count into your document
• Viewing readability statistics
• Document Proofing
• Disabling on-the-fly proofing
• Proofing your document manually
• Understanding the spell check icon
• Working with the dictionary
• Undoing an ignore proofing command
• Adjusting the grammar checking sensitivity
• Tools for a Wordsmith
• Choosing a better word
• Translating some text
• Ignoring a span of foreign text

From Brainstorm to Outline                         

• The Outline Thing
• Word’s Outline View
• Activating Outline view
• Exploring the Outlining tab
• Using heading styles
• Outline Construction
• Creating top-level topics
• Moving topics
• Demoting or promoting a topic
• Moving topics and subtopics together
• Adding narrative
• Outline Presentation
• Collapsing and expanding outline topics
• Printing the outline
• Using the navigation pane

Humongous Documents                               

• Write That Novel!
• Building one, long manuscript
• Writing one Lesson per document
• One Long Manuscript
• Bookmarking your text
• Visiting a bookmark
• Removing a bookmark
• Splitting the window
• Opening a second window
• The Master Document
• Creating the master document
• Working with the master document

Document References                                

• Table of Contents
• Understanding the TOC
• Inserting a TOC
• Updating the TOC
• Footnotes and Endnotes
• Adding a footnote
• Creating an endnote
• Reviewing notes
• Changing notes
• Setting note options
• Converting between footnotes and endnotes
• Citations and the Bibliography
• Creating citations
• Inserting existing citations
• Building the bibliography
• Automatic Captions
• Adding a caption
• Inserting a list of captions
• Cross-References
• Glossary
• Index
• Marking entries for the index
• Inserting the index

Updating the index

E-Book Publishing                                      

• The eBook Process
• Writing the manuscript
• Formatting your eBook document
• Using pictures or graphics
• Creating hyperlinks
• Adding document references
• eBook Publishing Tips
• Titling your tome
• Generating a cover
• Finding a publisher
• Publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing
• Previewing the final eBook
• Setting the price
• Marketing your eBooks

AutoCorrect, AutoText, and AutoFormat         

• Know Your Autos
• AutoCorrect the Boo-Boos
• Working with AutoCorrect capitalization settings
• Pretending that AutoCorrect is AutoText
• Undoing an AutoCorrect change
• Instant Typing with AutoText Building Blocks
• Creating an AutoText building block
• Reviewing building blocks
• AutoFormat As You Type
• Understanding AutoFormat options
• Undoing an AutoFormat change

The Big Macro Picture                                                                   

• Behold the Developer Tab
• Word Macro
• Understanding macros
• Recording a macro
• Running a macro
• Deleting a macro
• Quick Macro Access
• Assigning a macro to a Quick Access toolbar button
• Creating a macro keyboard shortcut
• The Joys of Macro-Enabled Documents
• Saving macros with the current document
• Creating a macro-enabled template
• Macro Security
• Visiting the Trust Center
• Dealing with a macro-enabled document

More Macro Fun                                        

• The VBA Editor
• Exploring the editor
• Reviewing macro code
• Editing a macro’s VBA code
• Dealing with a macro boo-boo
• Beyond Mortal Macros
• Processing an entire document
• Entering a command that you cannot type
• Exploring VBA references

Dynamic Templates with Content Controls      

• The World of Content Controls
• Inserting a content control
• Changing the content control view
• Setting a content control’s properties
• Removing a content control
• Converting a content control to text
• Useful Content Controls
• Setting up a fill-in-the-blanks item
• Adding a multiline text field
• Inserting an image
• Selecting the date
• Building a drop-down list

Final Document Preparation and Protection      

• Document Inspection
• Finding things you forget
• Using the Accessibility Checker
• Checking document compatibility
• Document Encryption and Password Protection
• Encrypting your document
• Removing encryption
• Restrict and Control Document Changes
• Setting text-editing restrictions
• Marking a document as “final”
• Document Recovery
• Activating automatic backup
• Viewing an older version of your document
• Searching for lost documents

Word and the Internet                                

• The Backstage
• Using the Backstage
• Removing a file from the Open Backstage
• Adding a storage place to the Backstage
• Summoning the traditional dialog boxes
• Disabling the Backstage
• Cloud Storage Options
• Understanding OneDrive
• Adding OneDrive to other devices
• Fixing OneDrive sync issues
• Exploring other cloud storage solutions
• Word and Office
• Obtaining Office
• Checking your Office subscription
• Word on the Web

Web Page Publishing                                    

• Ode to Web Publishing
• Obtaining a web host
• Understanding web page production
• Examining a web page document
• Web Page Creation in Word
• Setting Web Layout view
• Formatting a document for the web
• Inserting a hyperlink
• Saving a web page document

Customize Word

• General Options and Settings
• Showing special characters
• Controlling text selection
• Setting text-pasting options
• Disabling annoying features
• Specifying the default document folder
• Word’s Appearance
• Showing the ruler
• Revealing the scrollbars
• Removing the Style Area view
• Moving the Quick Access toolbar
• Fun with the Quick Access Toolbar
• Configuring the toolbar
• Adding special commands to the toolbar
• Rearranging commands on the toolbar
• Separating command groups on the toolbar
• Removing commands
• Resetting the toolbar
• Build a Custom Tab on the Ribbon
• Creating a new tab
• Adding commands to a new tab
• Changing command and group names
• Building more groups
• Stealing another group from the Ribbon
• Keyboard Customization
• Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a command
• Setting a symbol’s shortcut key
• Unassigning a keyboard shortcut

Breaking Your Word                                   

• Quick Problems and Solutions
• “What did I just do!”
• “I just saved my document, and now I can’t find it!”
• “This line just won’t go away!”
• “How can I get this extra page not to print!”
• The Document Needs a-Fixin’
• Opening a document in the proper format
• Opening a document for repair
• Reassigning the document’s template
• Extracting a fouled document’s text
• Word Repair and Recovery
• Running the Office Repair utility
• Fixing the Normal template
• Entering Startup mode
• Running Word in Safe Mode

Ten Fun Macros                                        

• Message Pop-Ups
• Document Cleanup
• Double-Indent Paragraph
• Word Swap
• And/Or Word Swap
• Swap Sentences
• Swap Header and Footer Text
• Update Document Fields
• Place Parenthetical Text into a Footnote
• Spike Text

Ten Function Key Shortcuts