Text Entry and Editing

MS Word - Text Entry and Editing

Text Entry and Editing VIEWS Expand and Collapse Outline View Quickly Switch Quickly Among Views Learn to Live with the Wavy Under-line Turn Off Formatting Display in Outline View Change the Font Used for Outline View Print from Outline View Stop Print Layout View from Shortening Pages Edit in Print Preview SELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS Hone Word's Automatic Selection Control Smart-Cut-and-Paste Settings Select Indented Text Accurately Turn Off "Click and Type" AUTOCORRECT AND AUTOTEXT Enter Any Amount of Text Quickl-y in a Document Use AutoText, or Don'tIt's Your Choice Transfer Your AutoText Entries Between Templates Remove Mystery Lines from Your Documents Turn Off "AutoFormat As You Type" Options Save Work and Time with AutoFormat Stop Word from Adjusting Your Capitalization Escape Unwanted Copyright Symbols Transfer Your AutoCorrect Entries to Another Computer Insert Symbols and Special Characters Insert a "Hard Space" FIND AND REPLACE Find and Replace Quickly Replace Styles and Formatting Replace Dumb Quotes with Smart Quotes Replace with a Subscript Perform a Two-Step Replace Find Any Character, Digit, or Letter Strip Blank Paragraphs from a Document Change "Firstname Lastname" to "Lastname, Firstname" Remove Duplicate Entries from a List NAVIGATING THROUGH DOCUMENTS Master Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts Navigate with Bookmarks Make Bookmarks Visible Place the Insertion Point Outside a Bookmark Navigate with Browse Objects Navigate with Go To Navigate with the Document Map Customize the Document Map Style Scroll Automatically Through a Document Return to Your Last Three Edits Work in Two Parts of a Document at Once SUNDRY EDITING ANNOYANCES Copy Text Without Formatting Hack Out Columns of Tabs or Spaces Eliminate the "Delete Block? No (Yes)" Message in the Status Bar Set Realistic Expectations for AutoSummarize Get an Instant Word Count Correct a Way-Off Page Count Remove Useless Smart Tags Stop Word from Searching the Web for Help Get Rid of the Office Assistant FIELDS Make Fields Visible Use Cross-References to Keep Text Updated in Different Parts of the Document Insert a Date That Doesn't Change

Almost every document needs some text and Word offers many features for helping you create it quickly and accurately without wearing out your fingertips. This tutorial explores how to eliminate annoyances you may encounter when entering and editing text.
This tutorial also covers a bumper pack of assorted editing problems, as well as a few tips for mastering fields. For example, you'll learn how to stop Word from searching the Web for help, how to get rid of that pesky Office Assistant for good, and how to enter the same text easily in multiple parts of a documentand keep it updated automatically.

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