The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft Word Written by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft Word Written by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. Introduction 1 About This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 What s Not Here 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: Your Introduction to Word 5 Chapter 1: Hello, Word! 7 Chapter 2: The Typing Chapter 19 Part II: Your Basic Word 27 Chapter 3: To and Fro in a Document 29 Chapter 4: Text Editing 37 Chapter 5: Search for This, Replace It with That 45 Chapter 6: Blocks o Text 55 Chapter 7: Spell It Write 67 Chapter 8: Documents New, Saved, Opened, and Closed 77 Chapter 9: Publish Your Document 89 Part III: Fun with Formatting 101 Chapter 10: Character Formatting 103 Chapter 11: Paragraph Formatting 115 Chapter 12: Tab Formatting 127 Chapter 13: Page Formatting 143 Chapter 14: More Page Formatting 157 Chapter 15: Style Formatting 171 Chapter 16: Template and Themes Formatting 183 Chapter 17: Sundry Formatting 191 Part IV: Spruce Up a Dull Document 201 Chapter 18: Borders and Lines 203 Chapter 19: Able Tables 211 Chapter 20: Columns of Text 225 Chapter 21: Lots of Lists 233 Chapter 22: Here Come the Graphics 241 Chapter 23: Insert Tab Insanity 255 Part V: The Rest of Word 265 Chapter 24: Multiple Documents, Windows, and File Formats 267 Chapter 25: Word for Writers 275 Chapter 26: Let s Work This Out 287 Chapter 27: Mail Merge Mania 297 Chapter 28: Labels and Envelopes 313 Chapter 29: A More Custom Word 321 Part VI: The Part of Tens 329 Chapter 30: The Ten Commandments of Word 331 Chapter 31: Ten Cool Tricks 335 Chapter 32: Ten Bizarre Things 343 Chapter 33: Ten Automatic Features Worthy of Deactivation 349 Index 355