Word 2010 for Dummies
By: by Dan Gookin
Series: --For dummies
Publisher: Wiley Pub., Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780470487723
Subjects: Microsoft Word; Word processing software; Microsoft Word (Computer software); Word processing
Other titles: Microsoft Word 2010 for dummies
Description: A guide to using Microsoft Word 2010 that covers typing, editing, finding and replacing text, checking spelling, saving and publishing documents, formatting, tables, graphics, file formats, and other related topics.

Overview:  Dan Gookin gets you up to speed so you can get down to work with all the new features of Word 2010!  Bestselling and quintessential For Dummies author Dan Gookin employs his usual fun and friendly candor while walking you through the spectrum of new features of Word 2010.  Completely in tune with the needs of the beginning Word user, Gookin shows you how to use Word quickly and efficiently so that you can spend more time working on your projects and less time trying to figure out how to make Word perform the tasks you need it to do.  This newest edition of Word For Dummies explains how to navigate the user interface and take advantages of file formats, and skips the unnecessary jargon.  Unparalleled author Dan Gookin applies his beloved For Dummies writing style to introduce you to all the features and functions of Word 2010; Escorts you through the capabilities of Word 2010 without weighing you down with unnecessary technical jargon; Deciphers the user interface and shows you how to take advantage of the file formats.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: About this book; title: How to use this book; title: Foolish assumptions; title: How this book is organized; title: Part 1:  Your introduction to Word; title: Part 2:  Your basic Word; title: Part 3:  Formatting; title: Part 4:  Spruce up a dull document; title: Part 5:  Even more Word; title: Part 6:  Part of tens; title: What's not here; title: Icons used in this book; title: Where to go from here; title: Part 1:  Your Introduction to Word; title: Chapter 1:  Hello, Word!; title: Getting Word started; title: Good, yet unimaginative, way to start Word; title: Better way to start Word; title: Best way to start Word; title: Start Word by opening a document; title: Looking at Word; title: Around the Word window; title: Blank place where you write; title: Mouse pointer in Word; title: Ending your Word processing day; title: Quit Word; title: Quit what you're doing without quitting Word; title: Set Word aside; title: Chapter 2:  Typing Chapter; title: Behold the PC keyboard!; title: Old-hunt-and-peck; title: Follow the blinking cursor; title: When to whack the spacebar; title: Backup and erase keys; title: When to press that enter key; title: Stuff that happens while you type; title: Left end of the status bar; title: Between the pages; title: Spots and clutter in your text; title: Strange underlines and colored text; title: Part 2:  Your Basic Word; title: Chapter 3:  To And Fro In A Document; title: Scroll through a document; title: Using the vertical scroll bar; title: Using the horizontal scroll bar; title: Scrolling your document with the mouse; title: Move the insertion pointer; title: Commanding the insertion pointer with the mouse; title: Moving in small increments (basic arrow keys); title: Moving from beginning to end; title: Browse buttons; title: Get back to where you once edited; title: Go to wherever with the go to command; title: Chapter 4:  Text Editing; title: Remove text you don't want; title: Deleting single characters; title: Deleting a word; title: Deleting more than a word; title: Split and join paragraphs; title: Making two paragraphs from one; title: Making one paragraph from two; title: Soft and hard returns; title: Undo mistakes with undo haste; title: Redo, the Undo-Undo command; title: Redo, the repeat typing command; title: Chapter 5:  Search For This, Replace It With That; title: Test happily found; title: Using the Find command; title: Using the traditional Find command; title: Finding more than text; title: finding stuff you can't type in; title: Finding formatting; title: Replace found text and stuff; title: Replacing it all at once; title: Finding and replacing formatting; title: Chapter 6:  Blocks O' Text; title: Understanding blocks; title: Selecting blocks of text; title: Using the keyboard to select text; title: Marking a block with the mouse; title: Using the F8 to mark a block; title: Blocking the whole dang-doodle document; title: Deselecting a block; title: Manipulating blocks of text; title: Copying a block; title: Moving a block; title: Setting the pasted text format; title: Copying or moving a block with the mouse; title: Collecting and pasting; title: Looking at the clipboard pane; title: Pasting from the clipboard pane; title: Cleansing the clipboard pane; title: Chapter 7:  Spell It Write; title: Hue right grate; title: Check your spelling; title: Dealing with on-the-fly spell checking; title: Dealing with words incorrectly flagged as being misspelled; title: Undoing the ignore all command; title: Removing words from the custom dictionary; title: AutoCorrect your common typos; title: Understanding AutoCorrect; title: Creating your own AutoCorrect entries; title: Undoing an AutoCorrect correction; title: Grammar be good; title: All-at-once document proofing; title: Control Word's proofing options; title: Changing spell-check and grammar settings; title: Perusing AutoCorrect options; title: Chapter 8:  Documents And Such; title: What is a file?; title: New document; title: Save your stuff!; title: Saving a document the first time; title: Dealing with document-save errors; title: Saving or updating a document; title: Forgetting to save before you quit; title: Open a document; title: Using the open command; title: Opening a document icon; title: Accessing recently opened files; title: Opening more than one document at a time; title: Opening one document inside another; title: Close a document; title: Recover a draft; title: Chapter 9:  Publish Your Document; title: Your document on paper; title: Preparing the printer; title: Previewing a document; title: Printing the whole document; title: Printing a specific page; title: Printing a range of pages; title: Printing a block; title: Printing more than one copy of something; title: Choosing another printer; title: Canceling a print job; title: Electronic publishing; title: Preparing a document for sharing; title: Sending a Word document by e-mail; title: Saving a Word document in a sharable format; title: Saving a Word document as a PDF; title: Part 3:  Formatting; title: Chapter 10:  Character Formatting; title: How to format characters; title: Basic character formatting; title: Changing the font; title: Applying character formats; title: Using less-common character attributes; title: Text transcending teeny to titanic; title: Understanding points; title: Setting the text size; title: Nudging text size; title: More colorful characters; title: Text formatting with the font dialog box; title: Changing text case; title: Removing character formatting; title: Chapter 11:  Paragraph Formatting; title: How to format a paragraph; title: Where the paragraph formatting commands lurk; title: Paragraph justification and alignment; title: Line up on the left!; title: Everyone center!; title: Line up on the right!; title: Line up on both sides!; title: Make room before, after, or inside paragraphs; title: Setting the line spacing; title: Setting specific line spacing options; title: Making space between paragraphs; title: Paragraph indentation; title: Indenting the first line of a paragraph; title: Making a hanging indent (an outdent); title: Indenting a whole paragraph; title: Who died and made this thing ruler?; title: Chapter 12:  Tab Formatting; title: Once upon a tab; title: Standard left tab stop; title: Creating a two-tab paragraph thing; title: Center tab stop; title: Right tab stop; title: Making a right-stop, left-stop list; title: Building a two-column right stop list; title: Decimal tab; title: Bar tab; title: Tabs dialog box; title: Setting a tab in the tabs dialog box; title: Setting leader tabs; title: Tab stop, be gone!; title: Chapter 13:  Page Formatting; title: Describe that page; title: Setting page size; title: Setting orientation (landscape or portrait); title: Configuring the page margins; title: Using the Page Setup dialog box; title: Page numbering; title: Adding an automatic page number; title: Starting off with a different page number; title: Numbering with roman numerals; title: Removing page numbers; title: New pages from nowhere; title: Starting on a new page; title: Inserting a whole, blank page; title: Page froufrou; title: Coloring pages; title: Adding a watermark; title: Chapter 14:  Document Formatting; title: Oft misunderstood yet useful concept of sections; title: Understanding sections; title: Creating a section; title: Using a section; title: Deleting a section break; title: Add a cover page (sneaky and quick); title: Headers and footers; title: Adding a header or footer; title: Editing a header or footer; title: Making odd and even headers or footers; title: Removing the header and footer from the first page; title: Working with headers and footers in document sections; title: Removing a header or footer; title: Chapter 15:  Word Formatting Styles; title: Big style overview; title: Understanding style types; title: Finding the styles in Word; title: Using a style; title: Understanding heading styles; title: Determining which style you're using; title: Switching to another style set; title: Unapplying a style; title: Make your own styles; title: Creating a style based on text you've already formatted; title: Creating a style from scratch; title: Modifying a style; title: Giving your style a shortcut key; title: Customizing the quick style gallery; title: Deleting a style; title: Chapter 16:  Fun With Themes And Template Formatting; title: Theme of things; title: Applying a document theme; title: Modifying or creating a theme; title: Create instant documents by using templates; title: Starting a new document by using a template; title: Creating a template based on a document you already have; title: Making a new template from scratch; title: Modifying a template; title: Attaching a template to a document; title: Borrowing an existing document as a template; title: Chapter 17:  Sundry Formatting; title: Weird and fun text attributes; title: Automatic formatting; title: Enjoying automagical text; title: Paragraph formatting tricks; title: Undoing an AutoFormat; title: Disabling the @#$%&! AutoFormat; title: Center a page, top to bottom; title: Steal this format!; title: Part 4:  Spruce Up A Dull Document; title: Chapter 18:  Lines And Colors; title: Basics of lines and colors; title: Using the border command button; title: Summoning the borders and shading dialog box; title: Using the shading command button; title: Lines, borders, and boxes; title: Putting a line above a heading; title: Boxing text or paragraphs; title: Boxing a title; title: Making rules; title: Drawing a fat, thick line; title: Putting a border around a page of text; title: Removing borders; title: Background colors and shading; title: Chapter 19:  Able Tables; title: Suddenly there's a table in your document; title: Working with tables in word; title: Creating an instant table; title: Making a table "this" big; title: Drawing a table; title: Test in tables; title: Putting text into a table; title: Selecting text in a table; title: Converting text into a table; title: Turning a table back into plain text; title: Table formatting; title: Manipulating a table with the mouse; title: Adjusting the table; title: Designing a table; title: Deleting a table; title: Chapter 20:  Columns Of Text; title: All about columns; title: Making more than three columns; title: Mixing column formats; title: Adjusting the columns in the columns dialog box; title: End of the column; title: Giving up and going back to one column; title: Ending multiple columns in the middle of a document; title: Using a column break; title: Chapter 21: Lots Of Lists; title: Lists with bullets and numbers; title: Making a bulleted list; title: Numbering a list; title: Creating a multilevel numbered list; title: Numbering lines on a page; title: Lists of document contents; title: Creating a table of contents; title: Building an index; title: Footnotes and endnotes; title: Chapter 22:  Here Come The Graphics; title: Graphical goobers in your text; title: Plopping down a picture; title: Inserting clip art; title: Slapping down a shape; title: Saving time with SmartArt; title: Choosing a chart; title: Adding some WordArt; title: Taking a screenshot; title: Adding a caption; title: Deleting an image or artwork; title: Images in and around your text; title: Wrapping text around an image; title: Moving an image hither and thither; title: Image editing; title: Resizing an image; title: Cropping an image; title: Rotating an image; title: Changing an image's appearance; title: Arranging multiple images; title: Chapter 23:  Even More Things To Insert In Your Document; title: Characters fun and funky; title: Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens; title: Typing characters such as U,C, and N; title: Inserting special characters and symbols; title: Spice up you document with a text box; title: Vast depth of fields; title: Placing a field in a document; title: Playing with fields; title: Date and time; title: Sticking the current date or time into a document; title: Typing date-and time keyboard shortcuts; title: Using the PrintDate field; title: Part 5:  Even More Word; title: Chapter 24:  Multiple Documents, Windows, And File Formats; title: Multiple document mania; title: Opening several documents at once; title: Switching between multiple documents; title: Viewing more than one document at a time; title: Comparing two documents side by side; title: Viewing the same document in multiple windows; title: Using the old split-screen trick; title: Many, many document types; title: Understanding document formats; title: Opening a non-word document; title: Saving a document in another file format; title: Converting an older Word document; title: Chapter 25: Word For Writers; title: Organize your thoughts; title: Entering outline view; title: Putting topics in the outline; title: Demoting a topic (creating subtopics); title: Promoting a topic; title: Adding a text topic; title: Rearranging topics; title: Expanding and contracting topics; title: Printing an outline; title: Large document organization; title: Setting up for a large document; title: Creating a master document; title: Splitting a document; title: Improve you Word power; title: Finding the best word power; title: Finding the best word; title: Using the research task pane; title: Dan's writing tips; title: Writing for writers; title: Making every word count; title: Avoiding writer's block; title: Chapter 26:  Let's Work This Out; title: Comments on your text; title: Adding a comment; title: Hiding comments; title: Reviewing comments; title: Printing comments (or not); title: Deleting comments; title: Whip out the yellow highlighter; title: Look what they've done to my text, Ma; title: Comparing two versions of the same document; title: Tracking changes as you make them; title: Reviewing changes; title: Chapter 27:  Mail Merge Mania; title: About mail merge; title: Understanding word's mail merge terminology; title: Reviewing the mail merge process; title: Main document; title: Creating a mail merge letter; title: Creating mail merge e-mail messages; title: Creating mail merge envelopes; title: Creating a mail merge directory; title: Recipient list; title: Creating a recipient list; title: Using an already created recipient list; title: Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook; title: Editing a recipient list; title: Fold in the fields; title: Mail merge Ho!; title: Previewing the merged documents; title: Merging to a new set of documents; title: Merging to the printer; title: Merging to e-mail; title: Chapter 28:  Labels Of Love; title: Label thing; title: Here's a sheet of identical labels; title: Print that address list; title: Label trick with graphics; title: Chapter 29:   More Custom Word; title: My, what big test you have!; title: Working the status bar zoom control; title: Using the Zoom commands; title: Better status bar; title: Word's changing interface; title: Finding the Quick Access toolbar; title: Customizing the Quick Access toolbar; title: Adding stuff to the ribbon; title: Part 6:  Part Of Tens; title: Chapter 30:  Ten Commandments Of Word; title: Thou shalt remember to save thy work; title: Thou shalt not use more than one space; title: Thou shalt not press enter at the end of each line; title: Thou shalt not neglect thy keyboard; title: Thou shalt not manually number thy pages; title: Thou shalt not use the enter key to start a new page; title: Thou shalt not forget thy undo command; title: Honor thy printer; title: Thou shalt have multiple document windows before thee; title: Neglecteth not windows; title: Chapter 31:  Ten Cool Tricks; title: Automatic save with AutoRecover; title: Keyboard power!; title: Build your own fractions; title: Electronic bookmarks; title: Lock your document; title: Drop cap; title: Map you document; title: Add an envelope to your letter; title: Sort your text; title: Text that doesn't print; title: Chapter 32:  Ten Bizarre Things; title: Equations; title: Math; title: Make a macro; title: Developer tab; title: Hyphenation; title: Document properties; title: Cross-references; title: Smart tags; title: Click-and-type; title: Word and the internet; title: Chapter 33: Ten Avuncular Suggestions; title: Keep printer paper, toner, and supplies handy; title: Get some references; title: Keep your computer files organized; title: Add the junk later; title: Back up your work; title: Use AutoCorrect; title: Use those keyboard shortcuts; title: Try new things; title: Let Word do the work; title: Don't take it all too seriously; title: Index.