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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
6
Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents
14
Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Chapter 13: Transforming Annoying Automation

There are many things to love about Word. Throughout this book, we have covered several tools and features of Word to help make you more efficient and productive in your workflows: from using and modifying Word's Styles, Quick Parts, and building blocks to utilizing Word's proofing and accessibility tools more effectively.

However, there will be times when Word will automatically add or change text when you don't want it to. Word will think it is being helpful, but for you, it will be so annoying trying to figure out what is happening and where you need to go to stop and correct the problem. That is what this chapter is all about. In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Stopping Word from automatically adding or changing text
  • Understanding and working with AutoFormat
  • Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Customizing custom dictionaries

The preceding topics will all work together to...