Word 2010 For Dummies

It's a whole new Word, so jump right into this book and learn how to make the most of it! Here's what you need to know, from firing up Word, understanding how to use the spell checker, and turning off features that drive you crazy to formatting documents, using templates, adding images, and saving your stuff. You can even find special tips for the writer in you.

• New to Word? — here's the stuff most books assume you already know, such as how to use the keyboard, mouse, and gizmos in the Word window

• Watch your words — clean up errors, replace sections of text, use copy-and-paste, and work with text blocks

• The grammar cop — make the most of the grammar and spell checkers

• Make friends with formats — format characters, paragraphs, and pages to make your documents reader-friendly

• Stylin' — create styles to give your documents character

• The fancy stuff — work with borders, lines, and boxes; add tables; and build an index

• Multitasking — manage multiple documents, convert documents from different versions of Word, or save documents in different file formats

• Publish or perish — print your documents or prepare them for sharing electronically

Open the book and find:

• What all the keys on the keyboard are for

• How to use the Ribbon

• Things to know about saving and naming files

• How to recover a document you thought was lost

• Tools for collaborating with others

• Tips for taming mail merge

• A whole chapter on Word's tools for writers

• The ten commandments of Word

Learn to:

• Work with all the newest Microsoft Word features

• Create and edit documents quickly and easily

• Share your work and collaborate with others

• Use mail merge, create labels, and send e-mails in Word