What this book covers
Chapter 1, There Is No One Word, covers the difference between versions of Word for Windows, Mac, and mobile, and how these versions impact certain collaboration and sharing features and the basic look and feel of the user interface.
Chapter 2, Working with Others Remotely, explains how to share and collaborate, both locally and remotely, and how to save and recover files.
Chapter 3, Reviewing Documents Remotely, explains how to collaborate better by tracking changes, commenting, replying, and mentioning team members. You will also learn how to best view, compare, and combine changes.
Chapter 4, Concentrating Better with Microsoft Word, contains tips and tricks for using features of Microsoft 365 Word, such as the Immersive Reader, Dictate, and the Focus View, to help you focus your attention while reading and writing documents.
Chapter 5, Working with Short Documents, covers essentials and tips for writing short everyday kinds of documents faster with Office templates and Quick Parts.
Chapter 6, Lists and Characters, explains how to effectively use lists and custom list styles, as well as special and hidden characters, such as paragraph marks.
Chapter 7, Structuring Long Documents for Better Organization, covers how to better organize a long document by creating different kinds of breaks, sections, page orientations, and custom headers and footers so your readers will be able to locate the information they are looking for within the document more quickly.
Chapter 8, Saving Time and Ensuring Consistency with Styles, explains what styles are, which features of Word uses them, how to apply quick styles, and how to create custom styles.
Chapter 9, Working Faster with Automation, makes you rethink automation by using some of Word's built-in features for automating common processes, corrections, procedures, and sequences of commands.
Chapter 10, Working with Illustrations, Charts, and Tables, explains how to add illustrations, how to wrap text around them, and how to anchor them in place.
Chapter 11, Writing for Everyone – Understanding Document Accessibility, explains how to write for the most diverse audience possible by learning to design for document accessibility, how to use the new Accessibility Checker, how to type with your voice, and how to transcribe audio files.
Chapter 12, Formatting Problems – Too Much Space, explains how to troubleshoot common issues that may arise when someone sends you a document that contains unwanted and additional "white" or "blank" space.
Chapter 13, Transforming Annoying Automation, covers how to stop Word from automatically doing, changing, or suggesting things, such as automatically suggesting you should "correct" your name.
Chapter 14, Fixing Frustrating Numbers and Bullet Lists, explores ways to get lists to work the way they were intended to work.
Chapter 15, Stuck Like Glue – Word's Deceptively Simple Paste Options, discusses copying and pasting text, which sounds like it should be simple. Sometimes it is not. This chapter makes it simple again.