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Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

By : Heather Ackmann, Bill Kulterman
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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 first learned how to design for document accessibility. We discussed the importance of using Word headings and how screen readers need these headings to navigate and "see" the structure of a document. We also briefly discussed how to write concise and contextual alt text. We talked about what alt text is, what it is used for, and how to write and edit effective alt text within the rhetorical context of images and other graphical content.

Next, we dove into some special accessibility tools within Word designed to help you locate and improve the overall accessibility within your document, starting with the Accessibility Checker. We walked through how to use the checker to fix problems, seek advice, and learn more about accessibility.

Finally, we covered two newer tools available with a subscription: Dictate and Transcribe. There, we learned how to type and add punctuation with our voice from both the full version of Word and Word for the Web...