Jerry Joyce - Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Plain & Simple

Another thing weve tried to do in this book is to find and document the easiest way to accomplish a task. Word often provides a multitude of methods for achieving a single end resultand that can be daunting or delightful, depending on the way you like to work. If you tend to stick with one favorite and familiar approach, we think the methods described in this book are the way to go. If you like trying out alternative techniques, go ahead! The intuitiveness of Microsoft Word invites exploration, and youre likely to discover ways of doing things that you think are easier or that you like better than ours. If you do, thats great! Its exactly what the developers of Word had in mind when they provided so many alternatives.

First, were assuming that Word is already installed on your computer as a part of The 2007 Microsoft Office System. If it isnt, Windows makes installation so simple that you wont need our help anyway. So, unlike many computer books, this one doesnt start with installation instructions and a list of system requirements. If Word is installed on its own without the other 2007 Office System programs, you can still use everything in this book except the instructions for those tasks that incorporate material from other Office components.

Next, you dont have to read this book in any particular order. Its designed so that you can jump in, get the information you need, and then close the book and keep it near your computer until the next time you need it. But that doesnt mean we scattered the information about with wild abandon. The tasks you want to accomplish are arranged in two levels. The overall type of task youre looking for is under a main heading such as ". Then, in each section of the book, the smaller tasks within each main task are arranged in a loose progression from the simplest to the more complex. OK, so whats where in this book?

covers the basic tasksand a few slightly more complex onesthat you can use to produce professional-looking documents: starting, saving, reopening, and closing a Word document; entering, editing, formatting, copying, and moving text; working with documents that were created in an earlier version of Word; using Words research tools; translating foreign-language text; learning how to use the spelling- and grammar-checking tools; printing your documents; and getting some help if you need it.

takes you well beyond the basics and focuses on designing and formatting your documents, using themes, styles, and fonts to create letters, memos, and other types of frequently used documents. Youll see how simple it is to use Words Quick Styles feature to create your own styles: custom-formatting text, paragraphs, or an entire document; choosing a theme or creating your own theme to produce documents with consistent design elements; adding decorative touches such as borders and shading; and creating and formatting lists and tables. Well also cover some of the refinements you can apply to your text, such as kerning that is, adjusting the spacing between charactersand adjusting line spacing in and between paragraphs.