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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

Summary

In this chapter, we highlighted a few common problem scenarios where several mostly automatic features that were designed to be helpful are, sometimes, unintentionally problematic. Most of these issues had to do with Word's AutoCorrect feature. However, the last issue we explored centered around one of Word's proofing tools. The Add to Dictionary button, though convenient, invites users to add words accidentally to the roaming dictionary but doesn't offer a way for them to easily undo the action—not without knowing exactly where to go and which dictionary in Word to edit. In this humble author's opinion, that's a design flaw.

So, this chapter demonstrated several methods and tips regarding how to work around these potential frustrations. We examined where to go to quickly edit our author name and initials in the case that our user profile was what Word was inserting incorrectly. We also discussed how to turn on and off certain AutoFormat controls...