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Making the most of Word in your business

Basic concepts

Basic concepts - Introduction

Rules for typing in Word

Use styles to format text

Use tables and tabs to arrange text

Use a bulleted paragraph style for bullets

Make changes, fix mistakes, edit your document

Use page numbering and let the text flow from page to page

Print your document

Styles in Microsoft Word

Understanding styles

Tips for understanding styles in Microsoft Word

How to apply a style

How to modify a style

How styles cascade

Why does Word sometimes override bold and italics when I apply a paragraph style, but sometimes it does not?

Why I don't use Custom Table Styles

Layout

How to keep a figure on the same page as its caption

Is your image slipping? How to get your images to stand still

How to create a glossary

Formatting

How the Styles and Formatting pane works

Why does text change format when I copy it into another document?

How Paste Options works

Letters are missing in my watermark when I print

How to tell Word to use Australian English or other non-US form of English

Numbering, Bullets, Headings, Outlines

How to control bullets

How to create numbered headings or outline numbering

How to number headings and figures in Appendixes

Why use Word's built-in heading styles?

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word

How Document Map works in Microsoft Word

Templates

What is the relationship between a Word document and its template?

What happens when I attach a new template to my document? or How do I copy content and settings from a template to a document?

Word and Excel: links, charts and more

How to copy a chart from Excel into a Word document

How to insert an Excel chart or worksheet into a landscape page in Word

How to create a hyperlink from a Word document to an Excel workbook

Sharing Microsoft Word documents

What happens when I send my document to someone else? Will Word mess up my formatting?

How does Track Changes in Microsoft Word work?

How tracked changes have made businesses and government look foolish

How to use the Reviewing Toolbar in Microsoft Word 2002 and Word 2003

How do I control how a Word document opens from the internet or an intranet?

Tools

CompleteWordCount

How to get Word to automatically fill the Edit > Find and Edit > Replace boxes with the selected text

Office 2007 information

Trivia, some of it about Word

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About

Shauna Kelly has been a Microsoft MVP since 2002

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This site was last updated in April 2008. This page was first published in and was last modified in .

Please note that the information here is based principally on Word 2002 and Word 2003 for Windows. Different versions of Word on different operating systems may act differently.

Produced by Shauna Kelly, Microsoft MVP for Word. Copyright Shauna Kelly, Melbourne, Australia