Formatting and Layout

MS Word - Formatting and Layout

Formatting and Layout NORMAL.DOT AND DEFAULT SETTINGS Change the Default Font in Normal.dot Change the Default Layout in Normal.dot Change the Default Margins DIRECT FORMATTING Control Formatting When You Paste Bring Spaced-out Pasted Text Down to Earth Copy Intricate Formatting Instantly Apply Sets of Formatting Instantly Change Capitalized Text to Small Caps Replace Spaced Indents with Real Indents Reveal Formatting and Codes Adjust the Conversion from WordPerfect Embed Fonts in Documents You Send to Others Make Word Display All Your Fonts Turn Off Automatic Style Updating Stop Word from Changing the Language NUMBERING Correct Automatic Numbering in Numbered Lists Watch Out for Revision Marks Wrecking Numbered Lists Fix "Page X of Y" Numbering Tame Word's List Indentation Make Outline Numbering Work Create Custom Outline Numbering STYLES Get Started with Styles Remove Formatting with Default Paragraph Font/Clear Formatting Bypass the Styles and Formatting Task Pane Make the Style Drop-Down List Show the Styles You Want Quickly Change One Style to Another Stop a Style Change in One Document from Affecting Other Documents Redefine the Normal Style Control the Style When You Paste Make the Pasted Text Take the Destination's Style Watch Out When Formatting Starts to "Slip" Avoid Layout Changes on Different Computers INSERTING AND POSITIONING GRAPHICS Control the Size Of a Pasted Graphic Make Your Pictures Look Right Crop Pictures Outside Word Get Rid of the Drawing Canvas Rotate Text to the Angle You Want Wrap Text Around a Picture Make Graphics Visible in Print Layout View Display Object Anchors Position the Graphic Relative to the Page Lock the Anchor When the Graphic is in Place Create a Watermark Position Lines Where You Need Them HYPERLINKS Stop Word from Automatically Inserting Hyperlinks See Where a Hyperlink Will Really Take You Bring Hyperlinks to Heel TABS Stop Word From Turning Tabs into Indents Use Tabs Effectively Align Numbers with Decimal Tabs Convert Tabs and Spaces to Just Tabs HEADERS, FOOTERS, AND SPECIAL LAYOUT Create Different Headers on Different Pages Create a Header from a Heading Paragraph Divide a Page into Multiple Pages

Your first order of business is to sort out Normal.dot. If the default font, view, and margins aren't to your liking in Normal.dot, they won't be in any documents based on it eitherwhich means all documents that you don't specifically base on another template.
The second half of the tutorial grapples with placing graphics where you want them (and making sure they don't get deleted by accident), controlling Word's enthusiasm for creating hyperlinks, using tabs correctly, and creating complex headers and footers.

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