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

Creating different page orientations

Sometimes, you might find it necessary to create different layouts or page orientations for a select page range within a document. For example, let's say you'd like the first page in your document to be oriented as portrait, but the second page to appear as landscape:

Figure 7.5 – Different page orientations

The preceding example is only possible with sections. In fact, if you've ever attempted to select a page range and change the layout in a document without first creating sections in your document, then you may have already discovered that the orientation for your entire document will change rather than just one select area of the document. Section breaks are necessary if you want to change part of a document's layout. This is especially true for the page orientation.

Changing the page orientation

If you would like to change the page orientation like I have done in the preceding example...