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MS Word Tutorials - Text Entry and Editing

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.

Does Word irritate you by displaying your document in the wrong view, or automatically selecting more text than you want it to? This tutorial will show you how to use Word's views effectively and how to hone Word's automatic-selection and smart-cut-and-paste features so they select what you want, not what Microsoft's focus group thinks you want. With the decks cleared, you'll be ready to turn AutoCorrect and its sister feature AutoFormat As You Type from hyperactive menaces into your potent but dutiful servants, use Find and Replace to effortlessly remove most of the annoyances your colleagues build into their documents, and choose among eight different means of navigating through your documents.

But that's not all. This tutorial also covers a bumper pack of assorted editing annoyances, 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 document and keep it updated automatically.

Table of content (tutorial index)

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Expand and Collapse Outline View Quickly Switch Quickly Among Views Turn Off Formatting Display in Outline View Change the Font Used for Outline View Stop Print Layout View from Shortening Pages Hone Word's Automatic Selection Control Smart-Cut-and-Paste Settings Select Indented Text Accurately Turn Off "Click and Type" 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 Quickly Replace Styles and Formatting Replace Dumb Quotes with Smart Quotes Replace with a Subscript Find Any Character, Digit, or Letter Strip Blank Paragraphs from a Document Change "Firstname Lastname" to "Lastname, Firstname" Remove Duplicate Entries from a List 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 Work in Two Parts of a Document at Once Copy Text Without Formatting Hack Out Columns of Tabs or Spaces 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 Use Cross-References to Keep Text Updated in Different Parts of the Document Insert a Date That Doesn't Change

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