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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)
1
Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word
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Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
14
Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Working with bulleted and numbered lists

At the beginning of this chapter, a list of this chapter's topics was provided. This list has been bulleted to emphasize the items included so that you, the reader, will take notice of it without suggesting that the list belongs in a specific order. This is usually the purpose of a bulleted list. We could have also numbered the list because the items are being presented in that specific order. Typically, a numbered list is used to denote a sequence of things in a particular order, such as steps in a procedure. We will begin this section by showing you how to create a bulleted list. From there, you will learn how to create a numbered list and a multilevel list.

Creating a bulleted and numbered list

When you want to create a bulleted list, there are two ways to go about it in Word. You can either start by creating a bulleted list first and adding items to it, or you can create a list first and apply a bulleted list style afterward...