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Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By : Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman
Book Image

Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By: Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman

Overview of this book

If you’re proud of yourself for finally learning how to use keyboard shortcuts and the search function, but still skip a beat when asked to generate a table of contents, then this book is for you. Written by two experts who’ve been teaching the world about Word for decades, Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks is a powerhouse of demystifying advice that will take you from Word user to Word master. This book takes you on a step-by-step journey through Word essentials with plenty of practical examples. With it, you'll explore different versions of Microsoft Word, its full functionality, and understand how these versions impact collaboration with others. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of working with the legendary text editor, including a whole chapter dedicated to concentrating better with the help of Word. Expert advice will fill your knowledge gaps and teach you how to work more productively and efficiently with text, images, styles, and even macros. By the end of this book, you will be able to make better documents faster and troubleshoot any Word-related problem that comes your way. And because of its clear and cohesive structure, you can easily come back to refresh your knowledge whenever you need it.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word
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Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
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Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Creating a new style by modifying an existing style

As we have seen, Word comes with several Quick Styles that we can apply easily to our documents. We have also learned how styles can be affected by themes. In this section, we want to explore how to create custom styles and add them to the Styles gallery.

We already know that using styles can help us create a consistent look in our documents. Being able to create custom styles gives us the freedom to create styles for any situation or look that we want in a document. Custom styles can also be copied to other documents or saved in a template so that all your documents can use them and have that consistency.

Like many things in Word, there is more than one way to create a custom style. For example, you can modify an existing style or you can create a style from formatting. We will begin by formatting text in our document in a specific way so that we can save it as our new style.

Creating a style from formatting

In the...