Word 2010 For Dummies E-Book

Dan Gookin

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

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Beschreibung

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 The word on the street is that Word 2010 For Dummies is a must-read!

Leseprobe

Word 2010 For Dummies®

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

How to Use This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Your Introduction to Word

Part II: Your Basic Word

Part III: Formatting

Part IV: Spruce Up a Dull Document

Part V: Even More Word

Part VI: The Part of Tens

What’s Not Here

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Your Introduction to Word

Chapter 1: Hello, Word!

Getting Word Started

The good, yet unimaginative, way to start Word

The better way to start Word

The best way to start Word

Start Word by opening a document

Looking at Word

Around the Word window

The blank place where you write

The mouse pointer in Word

Ending Your Word Processing Day

To quit Word

Quit what you’re doing without quitting Word

Set Word aside

Chapter 2: The Typing Chapter

Behold the PC Keyboard!

The Old Hunt-and-Peck

Follow the blinking cursor

When to whack the spacebar

Backup and erase keys

When to press that Enter key

Stuff That Happens While You Type

The left end of the status bar

Between the pages

Spots and clutter in your text

Strange underlines and colored text

Part II: Your Basic Word

Chapter 3: To and Fro in a Document

Scroll Through a Document

Using the vertical scroll bar

Using the horizontal scroll bar

Scrolling your document with the mouse

Move the Insertion Pointer

Commanding the insertion pointer with the mouse

Moving in small increments (basic arrow keys)

Moving from beginning to end

The Browse Buttons

Get Back to Where You Once Edited

Go to Wherever with the Go To Command

Chapter 4: Text Editing

Remove Text You Don’t Want

Deleting single characters

Deleting a word

Deleting more than a word

Split and Join Paragraphs

Making two paragraphs from one

Making one paragraph from two

The Soft and Hard Returns

Undo Mistakes with Undo Haste

Redo, the Undo-Undo command

Redo, the Repeat Typing command

Chapter 5: Search for This, Replace It with That

Text Happily Found

Using the Find command

Using the traditional Find command

Finding more than text

Finding stuff you can’t type in

Finding formatting

Replace Found Text and Stuff

Replacing it all at once

Finding and replacing formatting

Chapter 6: Blocks o’ Text

Understanding Blocks

Selecting Blocks of Text

Using the keyboard to select text

Marking a block with the mouse

Using the F8 key to mark a block

Blocking the whole dang-doodle document

Deselecting a Block

Manipulating Blocks of Text

Copying a block

Moving a block

Setting the pasted text format

Copying or moving a block with the mouse

Collecting and Pasting

Looking at the Clipboard pane

Pasting from the Clipboard pane

Cleansing the Clipboard pane

Chapter 7: Spell It Write

Hue Right Grate

Check Your Spelling

Dealing with on-the-fly spell checking

Dealing with words incorrectly flagged as being misspelled

Undoing the Ignore All command

Removing words from the custom dictionary

AutoCorrect Your Common Typos

Understanding AutoCorrect

Creating your own AutoCorrect entries

Undoing an AutoCorrect correction

Grammar Be Good

All-at-Once Document Proofing

Control Word’s Proofing Options

Changing spell-check and grammar settings

Perusing AutoCorrect options

Chapter 8: Documents and Such

What Is a File?

A New Document

Save Your Stuff!

Saving a document the first time

Dealing with document-save errors

Saving or updating a document

Forgetting to save before you quit

Open a Document

Using the Open command

Opening a document icon

Accessing recently opened files

Opening more than one document at a time

Opening one document inside another

Close a Document

Recover a Draft

Chapter 9: Publish Your Document

Your Document on Paper

Preparing the printer

Previewing a document

Printing the whole document

Printing a specific page

Printing a range of pages

Printing a block

Printing more than one copy of something

Choosing another printer

Canceling a print job

Electronic Publishing

Preparing a document for sharing

Sending a Word document by e-mail

Saving a Word document in a sharable format

Saving a Word document as a PDF

Part III: Formatting

Chapter 10: Character Formatting

How to Format Characters

Basic Character Formatting

Changing the font

Applying character formats

Using less-common character attributes

Text Transcending Teeny to Titanic

Understanding points

Setting the text size

Nudging text size

More Colorful Characters

Text Formatting with the Font Dialog Box

Changing Text Case

Removing Character Formatting

Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting

How to Format a Paragraph

Where the Paragraph Formatting Commands Lurk

Paragraph Justification and Alignment

Line up on the left!

Everyone center!

Line up on the right!

Line up on both sides!

Make Room Before, After, or Inside Paragraphs

Setting the line spacing

Setting specific line spacing options

Making space between paragraphs

Paragraph Indentation

Indenting the first line of a paragraph

Making a hanging indent (an outdent)

Indenting a whole paragraph

Who Died and Made This Thing Ruler?

Chapter 12: Tab Formatting

Once Upon a Tab

The Standard Left Tab Stop

Creating a basic tabbed list

Creating a two-tab paragraph thing

The Center Tab Stop

The Right Tab Stop

Making a right-stop, left-stop list

Building a two-column right stop list

The Decimal Tab

The Bar Tab

The Tabs Dialog Box

Setting a tab in the Tabs dialog box

Setting leader tabs

Tab Stop, Be Gone!

Chapter 13: Page Formatting

Describe That Page

Setting page size

Setting orientation (landscape or portrait)

Configuring the page margins

Using the Page Setup dialog box

Page Numbering

Adding an automatic page number

Starting off with a different page number

Numbering with roman numerals

Removing page numbers

New Pages from Nowhere

Starting on a new page

Inserting a whole, blank page

Page Froufrou

Coloring pages

Adding a watermark

Chapter 14: Document Formatting

The Oft Misunderstood Yet Useful Concept of Sections

Understanding sections

Creating a section

Using a section

Deleting a section break

Add a Cover Page (Sneaky and Quick)

Headers and Footers

Adding a header or footer

Editing a header or footer

Making odd and even headers or footers

Removing the header and footer from the first page

Working with headers and footers in document sections

Removing a header or footer

Chapter 15: Word Formatting Styles

The Big Style Overview

Understanding style types

Finding the styles in Word

Using a style

Understanding heading styles

Determining which style you’re using

Switching to another style set

Unapplying a style

Make Your Own Styles

Creating a style based on text you’ve already formatted

Creating a style from scratch

Modifying a style

Giving your style a shortcut key

Customizing the Quick Style Gallery

Deleting a style

Chapter 16: Fun with Themesand Template Formatting

The Theme of Things

Applying a document theme

Modifying or creating a theme

Create Instant Documents by Using Templates

Starting a new document by using a template

Creating a template based on a document you already have

Making a new template from scratch

Modifying a template

Attaching a template to a document

Borrowing an existing document as a template

Chapter 17: Sundry Formatting

Weird and Fun Text Attributes

Automatic Formatting

Enjoying automagical text

Paragraph formatting tricks

Undoing an AutoFormat

Disabling the @#$%&! AutoFormat

Center a Page, Top to Bottom

Steal This Format!

Part IV: Spruce Up a Dull Document

Chapter 18: Lines and Colors

The Basics of Lines and Colors

Using the Border command button

Summoning the Borders and Shading dialog box

Using the Shading command button

Lines, Borders, and Boxes

Putting a line above a heading

Boxing text or paragraphs

Boxing a title

Making rules

Drawing a fat, thick line

Putting a border around a page of text

Removing borders

Background Colors and Shading

Chapter 19: Able Tables

Suddenly There’s a Table in Your Document

Working with tables in Word

Creating an instant table

Making a table “this” big

Drawing a table

Text in Tables

Putting text into a table

Selecting text in a table

Converting text into a table

Turning a table back into plain text

Table Formatting

Manipulating a table with the mouse

Adjusting the table

Designing a table

Deleting a table

Chapter 20: Columns of Text

All about Columns

Making more than three columns

Mixing column formats

Adjusting the columns in the Columns dialog box

The End of the Column

Giving up and going back to one column

Ending multiple columns in the middle of a document

Using a column break

Chapter 21: Lots of Lists

Lists with Bullets and Numbers

Making a bulleted list

Numbering a list

Creating a multilevel numbered list

Numbering lines on a page

Lists of Document Contents

Creating a table of contents

Building an index

Footnotes and Endnotes

Chapter 22: Here Come the Graphics

Graphical Goobers in Your Text

Plopping down a picture

Inserting clip art

Slapping down a shape

Saving time with SmartArt

Choosing a chart

Adding some WordArt

Taking a screenshot

Adding a caption

Deleting an image or artwork

Images in and around Your Text

Wrapping text around an image

Moving an image hither and thither

Image Editing

Resizing an image

Cropping an image

Rotating an image

Changing an image’s appearance

Arranging multiple images

Chapter 23: Even More Things to Insert in Your Document

Characters Fun and Funky

Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens

Typing characters such as Ü, Ç, and Ñ

Inserting special characters and symbols

Spice Up Your Document with a Text Box

A Vast Depth of Fields

Placing a field in a document

Playing with fields

The Date and Time

Sticking the current date or time into a document

Typing date-and time keyboard shortcuts

Using the PrintDate field

Part V: Even More Word

Chapter 24: Multiple Documents, Windows, and File Formats

Multiple Document Mania

Opening several documents at once

Switching between multiple documents

Viewing more than one document at a time

Comparing two documents side by side

Viewing the same document in multiple windows

Using the old split-screen trick

Many, Many Document Types

Understanding document formats

Opening a non-Word document

Saving a document in another file format

Converting an older Word document

Chapter 25: Word for Writers

Organize Your Thoughts

Entering Outline view

Putting Topics in the Outline

Demoting a topic (creating subtopics)

Promoting a topic

Adding a text topic

Rearranging topics

Expanding and contracting topics

Printing an outline

Large Document Organization

Setting up for a large document

Creating a master document

Splitting a document

Improve Your Word Power

Finding the best word

Using the Research task pane

Dan’s Writing Tips

Writing for writers

Making every word count

Avoiding writer’s block

Chapter 26: Let’s Work This Out

Comments on Your Text

Adding a comment

Hiding comments

Reviewing comments

Printing comments (or not)

Deleting comments

Whip Out the Yellow Highlighter

Look What They’ve Done to My Text, Ma

Comparing two versions of the same document

Tracking changes as you make them

Reviewing changes

Chapter 27: Mail Merge Mania

About Mail Merge

Understanding Word’s mail merge terminology

Reviewing the mail merge process

The Main Document

Creating a mail merge letter

Creating mail merge e-mail messages

Creating mail merge envelopes

Creating a mail merge directory

The Recipient List

Creating a recipient list

Using an already created recipient list

Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook

Editing a recipient list

Fold in the Fields

Mail Merge Ho!

Previewing the merged documents

Merging to a new set of documents

Merging to the printer

Merging to e-mail

Chapter 28: Labels of Love

The Label Thing

Here’s a Sheet of Identical Labels

Print That Address List

A Label Trick with Graphics

Chapter 29: A More Custom Word

My, What Big Text You Have!

Working the Status Bar Zoom control

Using the Zoom commands

A Better Status Bar

Word’s Changing Interface

Finding the Quick Access toolbar

Customizing the Quick Access toolbar

Adding stuff to the Ribbon

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 30: The Ten Commandments of Word

Thou Shalt Remember to Save Thy Work

Thou Shalt Not Use More Than One Space

Thou Shalt Not Press Enter at the End of Each Line

Thou Shalt Not Neglect Thy Keyboard

Thou Shalt Not Manually Number Thy Pages

Thou Shalt Not Use the Enter Key to Start a New Page

Thou Shalt Not Forget Thy Undo Command

Honor Thy Printer

Thou Shalt Have Multiple Document Windows Before Thee

Neglecteth Not Windows

Chapter 31: Ten Cool Tricks

Automatic Save with AutoRecover

Keyboard Power!

Build Your Own Fractions

Electronic Bookmarks

Lock Your Document

The Drop Cap

Map Your Document

Add an Envelope to Your Letter

Sort Your Text

Text That Doesn’t Print

Chapter 32: Ten Bizarre Things

Equations

Math

Make a Macro

The Developer Tab

Hyphenation

Document Properties

Cross-References

Smart Tags

Click-and-Type

Word and the Internet

Chapter 33: Ten Avuncular Suggestions

Keep Printer Paper, Toner, and Supplies Handy

Get Some References

Keep Your Computer Files Organized

Add the Junk Later

Back Up Your Work

Use AutoCorrect

Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts

Try New Things

Let Word Do the Work

Don’t Take It All Too Seriously

Word 2010 For Dummies®

by Dan Gookin

Word 2010 For Dummies®

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About the Author

After physically destroying three typewriters, Dan Gookin bought his first computer in 1982 at the urging of the guy in the typewriter repair shop. Contrary to his prejudices, Dan quickly discovered that computers were about more than math, and he quickly took to the quirky little devices.

Thirty years later, Mr. Gookin has written over 100 books about computers and high tech and gone through more than 50 computers, including a dozen or so laptops and portables. He has achieved fame as one of the first computer radio talk show hosts, the editor of a computer magazine, a national technology spokesman, and an occasional actor on the community theater stage.

Dan still considers himself a writer and computer “guru” whose job it is to remind everyone that computers are not to be taken too seriously. His approach to computers is light and humorous, yet very informative. He knows that the complex beasts are important and can do a great deal to help people become productive and successful. Dan mixes his vast knowledge of computers with a unique, dry sense of humor that keeps everyone informed — and awake. His favorite quote is “Computers are a notoriously dull subject, but that doesn’t mean I have to write about them that way.”

Dan Gookin’s most recent books are PCs For Dummies, Windows 7 Edition, and Laptops For Dummies, 4th Edition. He holds a degree in communications/visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Dan dwells in North Idaho, where he enjoys woodworking, music, theater, riding his bicycle, and spending time with his boys.

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Introduction

The only thing standing between you and your writing is your word processor. Yeah, I know: It’s supposed to be helpful. Well, it tries. Computers can do only so much. But you, as a smart person, are capable of so much more. I’m guessing that’s why you’ve opened this book.

Welcome to Word 2010 For Dummies, which takes the pain from using Microsoft’s latest, greatest, most confusing word processing software ever! This book is your friendly, informative, and entertaining guide to the newfangled way of processing words that is Word 2010.

Be warned: I’m not out to make you love Word. I don’t even want you to enjoy the program. Use it, yes. Tolerate it, of course. The only promise I’m offering is that this book helps ease the pain that everyone feels from using Microsoft Word at the dawn of the 21st century. Along the way, I kick Word in the butt and you will, I hope, enjoy reading about it.

About This Book

I don’t intend for you to read this book from cover to cover. It’s not a novel, and if it were, it would be a political space opera with an antihero and a princess fighting elected officials who are in cahoots with a galactic urban renewal development corporation. The ending would be extremely satisfying, but it would be a long novel because I need something to balance out Atlas Shrugged on my bookshelf. Anyway.

This book is a reference. Each chapter covers a specific topic or task that Word does. Within a chapter, you find self-contained sections, each of which describes how to perform a specific task or get something done. Sample sections you encounter in this book include

Save your stuff

Moving a block of text

Check your spelling

How to format a paragraph

Putting text into a table

Inserting clip art

Mail merge, ho!

I give you no keys to memorize, no secret codes, no tricks, no videos to sleep through, and no wall charts. Instead, each section explains a topic as though it’s the first thing you read in this book. Nothing is assumed, and everything is cross-referenced. Technical terms and topics, when they come up, are neatly shoved to the side, where you can easily avoid reading them. The idea here isn’t for you to learn anything. This book’s philosophy is to help you look it up, figure it out, and get back to work.

How to Use This Book

You hold in your hands an active book. The topics between this book’s yellow-and-black covers are all geared toward getting things done in Word 2010. Because nothing is assumed, all you need to do is find the topic that interests you and read.

Word uses the mouse and keyboard to get things done.

This is a keyboard shortcut:

Ctrl+P

This shortcut means that you should press and hold the Ctrl (control) key and type the letter P, just as you would press Shift+P to create a capital P. Sometimes, you must press more than two keys at the same time:

Ctrl+Shift+T

In this line, you press Ctrl and Shift together and then press the T key. Release all three keys.

Commands in Word 2010 exist as command buttons on the Ribbon interface. This book may refer to the tab, the command group, and then the button itself to help you locate that command button — for example, the Page Color button in the Page Background group on the Page Layout tab. Or, I might write, “the Page Color button found in the Page Layout tab’s Page Background group.”

Menu commands are listed like this:

Table⇒Insert Table

This command tells you to choose from the Table menu the command named Insert Table. The Table menu appears as a button on the Ribbon.

The main menu in Word 2010 is the File tab menu. It replaces the File menu from older versions of Word, and the Office Button menu, found in Microsoft Office 2007. Clicking the File tab displays the File tab menu, which fills the entire Word window. To return to Word, click the File tab menu again or press the Esc key.

When I describe a message or something you see onscreen, it looks like this:

Why should I bother to love Glenda when robots will

eventually destroy the human race?

If you need further help in operating your computer I can recommend my book PCs For Dummies. It contains lots of useful information to supplement what you find in this book.

Foolish Assumptions

Though this book was written with the beginner in mind, I still make a few assumptions. Foremost, I assume that you’re a human being, though you might also be an alien from another planet. If so, welcome to Earth. When you conquer our planet, please do Idaho last. Thanks.

Another foolish assumption I make is that you use Windows as the computer’s operating system, either Windows Vista or Windows 7 or any other version of Windows that can run Word 2010. Word and Windows have no specific issues as far as this book is concerned, but keep in mind that this book isn’t about Windows.

Your word processor is Microsoft Word 2010. It is not Microsoft Works. It is not an earlier version of Word. It is not WordPerfect. It is not a version of Word that runs on a Macintosh.

Throughout this book, I use the term Word to refer to the Microsoft Word program. The program may also be called Word 2010 or even Microsoft Office Word 2010. It’s all Word as far as this book is concerned. Word 2010 is a part of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite of programs. This book doesn’t cover any other part of Microsoft Office, though I mention Excel and Outlook wherever they encroach upon Word’s turf.

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains six major parts, each of which is divided into two or more chapters. The chapters themselves have been sliced into smaller, modular sections. You can pick up the book and read any section without necessarily knowing what has already been covered in the rest of the book. Start anywhere.

Here’s a breakdown of the parts and what you can find in them:

Part I: Your Introduction to Word

This part provides a quick introduction to Word and word processing. You can find information on how to start and quit Word and a simple overview of the typical word processing day.

Part II: Your Basic Word

The chapters in this part of the book cover the seven basic tasks of any word processor: move around a document, edit text, search and replace, work with blocks of text, proof documents, save and open, and, finally, publish. (Publishing has replaced printing as the final result of your word processing efforts, though printing is still covered as part of the whole publishing milieu.)

Part III: Formatting

This part deals with formatting, from the smallest iota of text to formatting commands that span an entire document and more. Formatting is the art of making your document look less ugly.

Part IV: Spruce Up a Dull Document

This part is formatting dessert, or tasks you can do beyond regular formatting to help make your document look like more than a typical, boring document. Part IV covers lines, borders, tables, columns, lists, graphical goodness, and all sorts of stuff that makes Word more than a typical word processor.

Part V: Even More Word

This part covers a few dangling details that I consider myself fortunate to write about, such as outlining, collaboration, mail merge, label-making, and other interesting things that Word does.

Part VI: The Part of Tens

The traditional last part of any For Dummies book contains chapters with lists of ten items. You’ll find lots of helpful information there, some weird things you may not know about, plus even more useful tips, tricks, and good suggestions.

What’s Not Here

Word is one heck of a program. Covering the entire thing would fill a book several thousand pages long. (I kid you not.) My approach in this book is to cover as much basic word processing as possible. Because of that, some advanced features got pushed off the table of contents.

I give you some information about macros, though it’s not meaty. Covering macros without a technical description is difficult. If the publisher ever lets me increase this book’s size to more than 400 pages, I’d be happy to add a macro chapter; the publisher’s address is in this book’s front matter, in case you want to lobby on my behalf.

Some of the more esoteric features are touched on lightly here. For example, I could spend about 70 pages detailing what can be done with graphics in Word, but I limited myself to only a dozen pages.

Finally, this book doesn’t cover using Word to make a blog post, create a Web page, or how to use Word as your e-mail program.Word does those things, but I consider this a word processing book rather than a Word-does-everything book.

Icons Used in This Book

This icon flags useful, helpful tips or shortcuts.

This icon marks a friendly reminder to do something.

This icon marks a friendly reminder not to do something.

This icon alerts you to overly nerdy information and technical discussions of the topic at hand. The information is optional reading, but it may enhance your reputation at cocktail parties if you repeat it.

Where to Go from Here

Start reading! Observe the table of contents and find something that interests you. Or, look up your puzzle in the index.

If you’ve been using an older version of Word, you’re probably somewhat surprised at the look of Word 2010. Therefore, I recommend that you start reading at Chapter 1.

Read! Write! Let your brilliance shine!

My e-mail address is [email protected]. Yes, that’s my real address. I reply to all e-mail I receive, and you’ll get a quick reply if you keep your question short and specific to this book or to Word itself. Although I enjoy saying “Hi,” I cannot answer technical support questions or help you troubleshoot your computer. Thanks for understanding.

You can also visit my Web page for more information or as a diversion: www.wambooli.com.

Enjoy this book. And enjoy Word. Or at least tolerate it.

Part I

Your Introduction to Word

In this part . . .

Word processing may seem routine these days, but that hasn’t always been the case. Being able to dance your fingers across a computer keyboard and have your prose lit up by teensy dots of light on a screen is, well, sort of magic. It most certainly beats the pants off using a typewriter. For me, it’s better than trying to communicate using my nearly illegible handwriting. Routine or not, word processing is a blessing.

Historically speaking, word processing is the culmination of an evolution that began 10,000 years ago, when the first humans started scrawling those “Look what I killed! Aren’t I cool?” cave paintings. Today, you can communicate these simple messages with technological power unrivaled in human history. This part of the book introduces you to that technology.

Chapter 1

Hello, Word!

In This Chapter

Starting Word

Deciphering the Word screen