Microsoft Word Secrets : The Why and How of Getting Word to Do What You Want

Get hints, useful tricks, and solutions to those annoying problems that plague users of Microsoft’s ever-popular word processing software. This book goes beyond a how-to guide. You will understand where some of Word’s odd behavior comes from, how underlying inheritance rules can affect your formatting, and how to understand and make use of the many hidden characters that Word uses to control the text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to fly through your Word processing without the usual headaches.**What You'll Learn** * Understand why you should care about hidden characters, and how they can save you time and headaches * Use templates effectively, and produce your own templates * Employ fast desktop publishing techniques to produce a polished final document * Generate a table of contents and index * Fix those pesky tables forever! **Who This Book Is For**Everyone who uses Microsoft Word and has encountered difficulties and felt frustrated and slowed down Get hints, useful tricks, and solutions to those annoying problems that plague users of Microsoft’s ever-popular word processing software. This book goes beyond a how-to guide. You will understand where some of Word’s odd behavior comes from, how underlying inheritance rules can affect your formatting, and how to understand and make use of the many hidden characters that Word uses to control the text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to fly through your Word processing without the usual headaches. What You'll Learn Understand why you should care about hidden characters, and how they can save you time and headaches Use templates effectively, and produce your own templates Employ fast desktop publishing techniques to produce a polished final document Generate a table of contents and index Fix those pesky tables forever! Who This Book Is For Everyone who uses Microsoft Word and has encountered difficulties and felt frustrated and slowed down Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Brief Introduction to Word and File Extensions (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 1-5 Hidden Characters, Inheritance, and Paragraph Formatting (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 7-94 Character Attributes (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 95-148 Select, Find, and Replace Text Characters (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 149-185 Quick Document Formatting with Styles (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 187-242 Using Recommended Styles (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 243-268 Using Heading Styles (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 269-338 Page Formatting (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 339-414 Section Breaks (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 415-486 Formatting Tables (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 487-561 Creating and Using Templates (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 563-639 Master and Subdocuments (Flavio Morgado)....Pages 641-722 Back Matter ....Pages 723-731