Table of Contents Options 4 Options, View 4 Style Area Width 4 Storing your documents 4 Options, Edit 5 Typing replaces Selection. 5 Drag and Drop text editing 5 Automatic word selection 5 Use the INS key for paste. 5 Use Smart Cut and Paste 5 TAB or BACKSPACE sets indentation 5 Overtype Mode 5 It changes what I write! 5 AutoCorrect 5 Options, Save 6 Options, General 6 Background repagination 7 Mouse or keyboard? 7 Keyboard techniques 7 Options, Compatibility 8 Print Colours as black on noncolour printers. 8 Don’t balance columns for Continious section starts 8 Font Substitution 8 Editing 9 Keyboard movements 9 Go to ... 9 View, Outline 10 Your previous three edits 10 Find and replace 10 Selecting text 11 Selecting by clicking 11 Selecting by dragging 11 Selecting with Shift+mouse 11 Extended selection with F8 11 Cut, paste, move and copy 12 Cut 12 Paste 12 Copy 12 Delete words 12 Cancel 12 Formatting 13 Characters 13 Underline 13 Spacing 13 Position 13 Kerning 13 Paragraph 14 First line indented 14 Hanging indent 14 Ruler 14 What is a paragraph? 14 Format paragraph 14 Tabulator stops 15 Right aligned tab 15 Decimal tabs 15 Borders 15 Formatting shortcuts 17 Copying formats 17 Styles 18 Creating styles 18 Help 19 Creating a style: Trial and error method. 21 Deleting styles 21 Creating a Style using a dialog box 22 Styles and shortcut keys 22 Creating the style 23 Using a style 23 Editing a Style 23 Trial and error method 23 Dialog box method 24 Why Styles? 24 Mixing formatting 25 Summing up: Styles and direct formatting 25 Page Layout 26 Section 26 Margins 27 Text columns 27 Inserting a section break 28 Editing a section break 29 Copying a section format 29 Headers and footers 30 Page Numbers 30 View headers and footers 31 Page 3 of 14 31 Deleting a header 32 Two kinds of page numbers 32 Criticising page numbers! 32 Where are we? ... here! 32 Templates 33 Creating a new template 34 Save NORMAL.DOT? 35 Changing a template 35 Template elements 37 Macro 37 Recording a macro 37 Macros linked to toolbar buttons 38 Macros linked to shortcut keys 38 Recording 39 Describing a macro 39 Deleting a macro 39 Repeating a macro 39 Macro on a toolbar 39 Macro on the menu 39 Toolbar 39 Show/hide a toolbar 39 Moving a toolbar 39 Taking buttons off a toolbar 40 Moving toolbar buttons 40 Extra toolbars 40 Menus 41 Creating a menu 41 Removing a menu 41 Renaming a menu 41 Adding a menu function 42 Draft 42 Context menus 42 Customize 44 Adding toolbar buttons 44 Find a good command 45 What’s the command? 45 Changing a button icon 46 Expanded 46 Templates – again 47 Copying to templates/documents 47 Organizer 48 Styles are special 49 The three others 49 New basic template 49