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Course Overview
• Apply styles and themes
to your document for a polished look
• Add graphics and text effects—and see a live preview
• Organize information with new SmartArt diagrams and charts
• Insert references, footnotes, indexes, a table of contents
• Send documents for review and manage revisions
• Turn your ideas into blogs, Web pages, and more
Your all-in-one learning experience includes:
• Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons
• Fully searchable eBook
• Bonus quick reference to the Ribbon, the new Microsoft Office
interface
• Windows Vista Product Guide eBook—plus more resources and extras
on CD
Target Audience - Beg/Int
Microsoft Press Book Details - 448
pages, 1 companion CD
Previous Software Versions: MS Office 2003, XP, 2002, 2000
Course Outline:
1 Exploring Word 2007
Working in the Word Environment
Opening, Moving Around in, and Closing a Document....
Sidebar: Compatibility with Earlier Versions
Displaying Different Views of a Document
Creating and Saving a Document
Previewing and Printing a Document
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2 Editinq and Proofreading Documents
Making Changes to a Document
Sidebar: What Happened to Overtype?
Sidebar: About the Clipboard
Inserting Saved Text
Sidebar: Inserting the Date and Time
Finding the Most Appropriate Word
Sidebar: Researching Information
Sidebar: Translating Text
Reorganizing a Document Outline
Finding and Replacing Text
Correcting Spelling and Grammatical Errors
Sidebar: Viewing Document Statistics
Finalizing a Document
Sidebar: Adding a Digital Signature
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3 Changing the Look of Text
Quickly Formatting Text and Paragraphs
Manually Changing the Look of Characters
Sidebar: More About Case and Character Formatting
Manually Changing the Look of Paragraphs
Sidebar: Finding and Replacing Formatting
Creating and Modifying Lists
Sidebar: Formatting Text as You Type
Key Points 4 Changing the Look of a Document
Changing a Document's Background
Sidebar: Using a Picture as a Watermark
Changing a Document's Theme
Working with Templates
Sidebar: Applying a Different Template to an Existing Document
Adding Headers and Footers
Controlling What Appears on Each Page
Sidebar: Inserting and Formatting Page Numbers
Key Points 5 Presenting Information in Columns and Tables
Presenting Information in Columns
Creating a Tabular List Presenting Information in a Table Sidebar. Other Layout Options
Formatting Table Information
Performing Calculations in a Table
Sidebar: Creating Table Styles
Using a Table to Control Page Layout
Sidebar: Deciding How to Insert Excel Data
Key Points 6 Working with Graphics, Symbols, and Equations
Inserting and Modifying Pictures
Sidebar: Organizing Clips
Creating Fancy Text
Sidebar: Formatting the First Letter of a Paragraph
Drawing and Modifying Shapes
Changing the Relationship of Elements on the Page
Inserting Symbols and Equations
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7 Working with Diagrams and Charts
Creating a Diagram
Modifying a Diagram
Inserting a Chart
Modifying a Chart
Using Existing Data in a Chart
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8 Working with Longer Documents
Inserting Ready-Made Document Parts
Creating and Modifying a Table of Contents
Sidebar: Creating Other Types of Tables
Creating and Modifying an Index
Adding Bookmarks and Cross-References
Adding Hyperlinks
Adding Sources and Compiling a Bibliography
Sidebar: Adding Footnotes and Endnotes
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9 Creating Form Letters, E-Mail Messages, and Labels
Understanding Mail Merge
Preparing Data for Mail Merge
Sidebar: Using an Outlook Contacts List as a Data Source
Preparing a Form Letter
Merging a Form Letter with Its Data Source
Sidebar: Printing Envelopes
Sending a Personalized E-Mail Message to Multiple Recipients
Creating and Printing Labels
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10 Collaborating with Others
Sending a Document Directly from Word
Sidebar: Faxing a Document
Tracking and Managing Document Changes
Adding and Reviewing Comments
Sidebar: Entering Handwritten Changes
Comparing and Merging Documents
Password-Protecting a Document
Preventing Changes
Using Document Workspaces
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11 Creating Documents for Use Outside of Word
Saving a File in a Different Format
Sidebar: Saving a PDF File
Sidebar: Using Add-lns
Creating and Modifying a Web Document
Creating a Blog Post
Sidebar: Setting Up a Blog Account
Creating an XML Document
Sidebar: The DOCX Format
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12 Customizing Word
Changing Default Program Options
Making Favorite Word Commands Easily Accessible
Making Commands Available with a Specific Document
Creating a Custom Keyboard Shortcut
Sidebar: Tracking Down Built-in Keyboard Shortcuts ...
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