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Table of Contents: Get Going with Word 97

Finding your way around the screen elements

The mouse pointer and cursor

Exercise 1: Create a document

        Writing text

        Save a document

        Close, Open and Save a document

Exercise 2: Editing a document

        Save a document with a new name

        Moving the Cursor

        Insert text

        Deleting text

Exercise 3: Edit and format a document

        Selecting text

        Selecting and formatting text

        Deleting a selected word

        The undo function

        Inserting and deleting empty lines

        Insert/delete a ‘hard’ page break

Exercise 4: Changing the document view

        Normal view

        Page layout view

        Online view

        Full screen

        Displaying the toolbars and the ruler

        Floating toolbars

Exercise 5: Text alignment and printing

        Text alignment and today’s date

        Printing and print preview

Exercise 6: More formatting

        Changing the font and its size

        Changing the standard font and font size

        Change margins and paper orientation

        Changing standard values in the page setup

        Indented text

Exercise 7: Spell check and hyphenation

        Spell check

        Foreign language spell

        Hyphenation

Exercise 8: Using the Tabulator

        Insert tabs

        Moving tabs on the ruler

        Removing tabs

        Centered tab stops

        Tabs and leader characters

        Tabs in a letter head

Exercise 9: Paragraph formats

        Hanging indents

        Moving the indent triangles

        Changing line spacing

Exercise 10: Moving and copying text

        Moving text

        Copying text

        Copying between documents

Exercise 11: AutoText and AutoCorrect

        Creating AutoText

        Inserting autotext

        Defining an autocorrect entry

Exercise 12: Formatted lists

        Formatting with numbers

        Formatting with letters

        Formatting with bullets

        Altering bullets

        Multilevel bullets and numbering

        Insert symbol

Exercise 13: Borders and shadows

        Inserting borders, lines and shadows

Exercise 14: Headers and footers

        Headers and footers with page numbers and borders

Exercise 15: Search and replace

        Search

        Replace

Exercise 16: Managing your documents

        Save dialog box

        Creating folders

        Standard options for saving documents

        Saving in the correct folder

        Saving on diskette

Exercise 17: The Open Dialog box

        Moving, copying and deleting documents

Exercise 18: Find your documents

        Finding a document

Exercise 19: Tables

        Creating a table

        Selecting in a table

        Inserting rows

        Presenting the minutes from a meeting as a table

        Changing the width of columns

        Indents and text alignment in a table

        Make your own invoices

Exercise 20: Columns and dropped capitals

        Using drop caps and columns

Exercise 21: Templates

        Creating a template

        Using a template

        Changing a template

        Built in templates

        Using wizards

        Creating a form

Exercise 22: Clip art objects

        Inserting and formatting pictures

Exercise 23: WordArt and AutoShapes

        Inserting a WordArt object

        AutoShapes