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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
14
Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

Viewing word and character counts

Knowing the word and character count of a document can help you better understand things such as the readability of the document and how much space you are using in a document. You can use word length and word count in a sentence to help determine readability. Knowing these things can also be very helpful in publishing and typesetting. Word has an excellent word and character count tool that we will explore in this section.

The Word Count tool is located in the lower left of the Status Bar in Word. The Status Bar is at the bottom of the document and just above the Windows Start button and search box. It is between the page number and the Editor button.

The following screenshot shows the Word Count tool:

Figure 6.35 – The Word Count tool

By default, Word Count is set to display the word count in the document, but it also keeps track of several other statistics. To see those statistics, click on the word count...